How can climate adaptation platforms engage and learn from each other?

In 2022, the European Union (EU) launched the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, to foster the climate resilience of regions, cities, citizens, and companies in Europe. The EU funded project, Adaptation AGORA, brings together 13 partners from eight EU countries and the UK to support communities and citizens to accelerate their transformation to a climate resilient future. More specifically, Adaptation AGORA has used a transdisciplinary co-creation approach to facilitate the development of a digital toolbox of innovative mechanisms and transdisciplinary approaches for inclusive climate governance that fosters citizen and community engagement, known as the online climate adaptation platform, the Agora Community Hub, as well as two digital academies focussing on accessing and using climate data and monitoring climate risks, and climate change disinformation. 

However, the proliferation of portals and platforms sharing information online is expanding daily. This does not always result in a coordinated or systematic effort, which means knowledge is often fragmented and siloed leading to redundancy and/or replication. In an era when planning must accelerate to implementation and concerted climate action, we need faster ways to learn lessons from one another on knowledge sharing and exchange. To support knowledge sharing and exchange between climate adaptation platforms, the Adaptation AGORA project has started this webinar series to engage climate adaptation platforms, encourage collaboration between platforms, and increase learning. The webinar series has focused on: EU funded projects and climate adaptation platforms; connecting knowledge to policy and practice; and has an upcoming webinar on monitoring the impact of climate adaptation platforms. 

This EGU session would be interactive, highlighting the AGORA project as well as other climate adaptation platforms available, and then engaging with the audience to discuss enablers and barriers of and how to build alliances with other climate adaptation platforms. The session aims to:  

• Highlight the AGORA project and its related platforms, focusing on how other climate adaptation platforms can interact with the Agora Community Hub. 

• Share and exchange information on enablers and barriers to exchanging with climate adaptation platforms. 

• Explore potential synergies, opportunities and foster collaboration between climate adaptation platforms. 

• Engage and foster a dialogue between climate adaptation platforms in line with the AGORA project webinar series. 

Anticipated outcomes include the identification and exploration of available climate adaptation platforms, identification of enablers and barriers to engaging with climate adaptation platforms to limit silos, and discussions around future synergies and collaborations between climate adaptation platforms. A summary and findings will be disseminated through an online feature.