Please find attached a draft agenda for the 4^th December 11:00-12:30 CET (online) “Training academy for politicians on adaptation”. This academy, led by CEMR in cooperation with other partners, is one of the actions within the EU Urban Agenda partnership on climate adaptation. This training is targeting politicians (mayors, vice mayors, councillors) and their advisers on climate issues. You can find more background of the partnership in the attached agenda as well as registrations instructions (also at the end of this email).

This last general training academy of the Adaptation Partnership of the Urban Agenda (partnership coordinated by the City of Genoa) will be the occasion to present the report which has collected material from 5 previous academies, to present current climate adaptation challenges, to present briefly the new EU Adaptation Strategy, the costs of inaction, impacts from COVID19, resilience plans, refer to the EEA report on cities released recently and have an exchange of views with politicians based on this information. CEMR has been leading on this action and the partnership has held 3 local academies (Glasgow and Genoa in 2019, Potenza in 2020) and 3 general ones (Oslo in 2019, Brussels in 2019 and this virtual one). These trainings are focused on training local politicians on what climate adaptation means for their city and its citizens as well as what concrete actions can be proposed. These trainings go into depth on climate adaptation in relation to the context of the urban area. The target group consists of local politicians, for which the expert should guide the politicians towards the prioritisation of climate change adaptation in public policies. Special attention must be given to the benefits of adaptation, the costs of inaction, the co-benefits of adaptation, and the risks of maladaptation and impacts linked to the Covid crisis.

Our trainer will be Sergio Castellari, Expert on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, European Environment Agency. And we will also hear the experience from some distinguished politicians:

• Alderman to resilience, environment, sustainable development and mobility from Genoa Municipality, Climate Adaption Partnership Coordinator - Urban Agenda for the EU, host of one local academy in 2019
• Mayor Belinda Gottardi, City of Castelmaggiore, CEMR spokesperson on climate
• Cllr. Anna Richardson, Political Sustainability Spokesperson, City of Glasgow, host of one local academy in 2019 -TBC
• Mayor Mario Guarente, City of Potenza, member of the Adaptation Partnership, host of one local academy in 2020

Registrations:

Please register in these two links:

• Your name – position – organization – city – email. Register here:
• To join the meeting from your computers on the 4^th December: register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcOqhrz0vEt1dtilDLPqa-PTKNomMeitA.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Shall you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact Eva Baños de Guisasola, Policy Adviser Environment, Energy and Climate (eva.banosdeguisasola@ccre-cemr.org).

We look forward to a very fruitful political discussion.