Case studies

Sectors
Climate change impacts
Adaptation options implemented
2019

The estuarine and marsh area of A Xunqueira do Areal represents a zone of high ecological value, as it lies at the confluence of three distinct environmental systems — beach-dune, marsh, and marine environment

2019

The mouth of the Oka estuary was once home to coastal dune systems that disappeared in the 1990s due to both anthropogenic factors (such as sand extraction and trampling of vegetation) and natural processes (i

2019

Insurance is of paramount importance when needing to adapt to the current and future risks of climate change and its consequences (often consisting in natural catastrophes and extreme hydrometeorological phenomena), which directly affect the activity of the insurance sector.

2019

The islands of Macaronesia are not spared from the effects of climate change, being very vulnerable to their consequences given their particular geographical situation, insularity, remoteness from the continent, fragmentati

2019

The GESTARR project analyses the role of Posidonia oceanica 

2018

The NBS URBAN project seeks to integrate nature into urban planning, reinforcing the use of ecosystems and nature together with existing infrastructures in order to locally adapt to climate change in the Basque Country region, using for such purpose a map for their identification