Horizon Avoiding Maladaptation
Funds three €5–6M research projects that help Europe identify, prevent and correct climate adaptation actions that backfire.
Horizon Avoiding Maladaptation is a European Commission call that funds three €5–6M research projects helping Europe identify, prevent and correct climate adaptation actions that backfire. Adaptation can reduce climate risk, but poorly designed measures can create new harm, shift vulnerability or deliver short-term gains that fail over time. This scheduled Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Ac…
Build an integrated evidence base on maladaptation: adaptation actions that unintentionally increase climate-related risk or create greenhouse-gas, air-pollution, socio-economic, biodiversity or environmental harms, transferred vulnerability or social inequity. Projects map drivers and case studies across sectors, regions and scales, strengthen qualitative and quantitative complex-risk assessment, validate effective practices, and produce corrective responses, prevention guidelines and tools for adaptation stakeholders. The work includes SSH, intersectional and gender-disaggregated analysis, end-user engagement, EU repository integration, and coordination with Mission Adaptation and related Horizon projects.
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