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apr 2024

EIB Adaptation Days

'We need to do more'

The first EIB Adaptation Days brought together climate experts, non-profits, corporations and public officials, who called for better regulation, a higher profile for adaptation in corporate climate plans and more awareness of the financial impact of our warming planet.

Articulating the problems faced

09:15 - 09:45 (GMT +2)

  • EU policy context
  • The European State of Climate report
  • What does the first climate assessment reveal?
     

Adaptation planning

11:15 - 13:00 (GMT +2)

  • What do we do in-house?
  • Panel discussion on adaptation planning

 Explore the morning’s presentations
 

Adaptation financing

14:45 - 17:40 (GMT +2)

  • Conversation on overcoming investment barriers
  • EIB product offering
  • Fireside chat: Insights on financial innovation for adaptation
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Adaptation implementation - advisory support

09:10 - 11:00 (GMT +2)

  • Resources available for adaptation strategies, planning and implementation
  • Project implementation: Luxembourg flood and water management plan
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Adaptation planning

13:30 - 15:30 (GMT +2)

  • Video screening: What would you do if...?
  • Panel discussion
Explore the afternoon’s presentations

 

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IN FOCUS

Coping with climate change

Climate change is here, now. Last year, 98% of the world’s population was exposed to extreme heat. But we can still act.

ON THE GROUND

How do we scale up adaptation finance?

“We need to adjust our economics”

Ambroise Fayolle, vice-president of the European Investment Bank

“We need to reframe adaptation”

Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus Climate Services – European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts

“It’s about societal preparedness”

Blaz Kurnik, head of Group Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation at the European Environmental Agency

“We need leadership”

Elena Višňar Malinovská, head of Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change Unit at the European Commission

“We need awareness”

Geeke Feiter, member of the Dutch Association of Insurers’ Board of Directors

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