This action supports the very heart of Mission Adaptation: since climate impacts and adaptive capacities differ greatly across regions, tailor-made responses and measures, at the regional or local levels, are required for positive and just transitions towards climate resilience. This action will provide the necessary tailored knowledge, expertise, and services to support regions and local authorities in the formulation of such Action Plans, as well as preparing the ground for the swift implementation needed to accelerate the transition.

Description of the Action Plans

The Action Plans should include:

• The analysis of different possible future scenarios and probabilities of impacts, including different solutions and innovations for relevant sectors, that are robust and cost-effective across these possible futures.
• A set of concrete actions to be implemented at the regional/local level (identifying the regional/local actors in charge of their implementation), including innovation activities and their quantified effects wherever possible.
• A timeline of implementation, including possible intermediate milestones.
• An indication of the expected costs for the region/local authority related to each action put forward by the Action Plan and for the entire Plan, and the estimated avoided losses.
• An analysis on how such costs can be addressed in particular by leveraging additional funding at regional, national, European levels[2] (including via private funding sources) and -where appropriate- other relevant non-financial considerations to facilitate implementation.
• A framework to monitor the implementation of the actions, based on the common framework developed by the project while facilitating synergies between such framework and the one created to monitor the implementation of Mission Adaptation.

Proposals & general considerations

Proposals should describe how the consortium would:

• Define and adopt a common framework guiding the assistance to the regional and local authorities.
• Structure and organise the selection of regional and local authorities and their local partner organisations.
• Support the regional and local authorities in the various steps of the process developing their Action Plans.
• Describe how it intends to integrate its work into the Mission and its activities so that knowledge and good practices can inspire others and be further replicated.