ERRIN has submitted a response to the European Commission’s consultation on the forthcoming European Climate Resilience and Risk Management initiative. ERRIN underlined the crucial role of regions and cities in shaping and implementing effective resilience policies.

In its contribution, ERRIN calls for the initiative to:

• Anchor a place-based ecosystem approach at the heart of resilience policy, empowering regions and cities and their innovation ecosystems to co-create context-specific solutions.
• Sustain the mission approach, reinforcing multilevel governance, technical support and peer learning to accelerate deployment and scaling of proven solutions.
• Operationalise an integrated approach across climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, civil protection, water, energy, agriculture, health and security – avoiding duplication, cutting costs and preventing maladaptation.
• Establish binding and accountable targets, aligned with ECRA and the Global Goal on Adaptation, with interim milestones and KPIs co-created with local and regional authorities.
• Streamline monitoring and reporting (MRV) by integrating with existing plans, such as National Energy and Climate Plans and standardising indicators and data practices, while ensuring open, actionable risk data (incl. Digital Twins/AI).
• Ensure dedicated and equitable financing, accessible to municipalities and regions with various levels of capacities and catalyse private capital – embedding resilience as an investment principle in the next MFF.
• Frame resilience as a driver of innovation and competitiveness, mainstreaming nature-positive solutions and resilience into regulation and procurement.