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Knowledge exchange to build resilience: what cities can learn from one another as they adapt to climate change | Covenant of Mayors - Europe
Knowledge exchange to build resilience: what cities can learn from one another as they adapt to climate change. Cities wear two hats - as Mentors and Mentees. Catarroja and Tripolis. Penne and Tavernes de la Valldigna. Essen and Aix Marseille. Expert missions to reach climate neutrality. Covenant of Mayors - Europe.
Throughout the PSF’s twinning programme, eight municipalities from Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Germany were paired together to offer opportunity to exchange on best practices, lessons learnt, and to evaluate what could be applied in their city.
Communities across Europe, both large and small, are no stranger to the effects of climate change. Yet it is often local communities and small municipalities that are left out of discussions for how to face the challenges encountered when developing adaptation strategies and building resilience to the adverse effects of climate change, to address issues like drought, flooding and wildfires, to name only a few. Yet local authorities do not have time to wait and have had to develop strategies that are appropriate to their context. And communities have a lot to learn from one another. Adaptation strategies already tried and tested in one environment may be seen as a new and innovative approach in another. Thus creating opportunities for peer exchange, where municipalities can learn adaptation and resilience strategies from one another is a valuable resource that should be tapped into. Cities wear two hats - as Mentors and Mentees It is exactly this strategy the Covenant of Mayor’s Policy Support Facility (PSF) seeks to address. Such twinning opportunities are a part of the PSF’s overall plan to assist local and regional authorities develop and implement adaptation strategies under the Covenant of Mayors - Europe. These twinnings are part of the peer-learning programme aimed to help cities network and collaborate, exchange experiences and build their capacity around specific climate-related challenges, where common needs and priorities are identified. Throughout the PSF’s twinning programme, a series of eight municipalities from Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Germany were paired together based on the climate threats they are currently facing as well as the adaptation measure they are intent on implementing. Cities that have experience dealing with such threats but need assistance in another area of adaptation were thus paired together to offer this opportunity to exchange on best practices, lessons learnt, and to evaluate what could be applied in their own context. In such a practice, the cities themselves have the opportunity to act both as mentor and mentee. Catarroja and Tripolis One such pairing, between Catarroja (Spain) and Tripolis (Greece), focused on disaster risk reduction, flooding and water management. For Catarroja, a small province of 28,000 people in the Valencian Community in southeastern Spain, the city is facing rising sea levels, high precipitation and an increased risk of flooding. They could share best practices on water flo.
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