The project:

The adaptation needs of European territories are currently limited by the lack of funding (finance gap).

CLIMATEFIT unites the public and private sectors in a transformative quest for climate resilience. The project aims to strengthen the adaptation capacities of EU territories by revealing investment paths resilient and co-creating innovative strategies, highlighting 20 case studies in three key European macro-regions: Northern and Southern Europe and Eastern Europe.

Link to the project website 

Numbers:

5.8 thousand

Budget

3

Macro-REGIONS INVOLVED

2023-2026

period

Project objectives:

The CLIMATEFIT project aims to support EU territories on their just and transformative path towards climate resilience, bridging the financing gap, providing critical insights and strengthening capacities:

• from the Public Administration to identify and attract various public and private funding sources
• of the Financing and Investment Institutions  to identify and access resilient investment opportunities.

CLIMATEFIT opens up a significant opportunity to promote innovative investments in the field of resilience in vulnerable EU territories and to increase the EU's competitiveness and leadership in a growing market.

The project will start from an in-depth research of existing initiatives to support investments in resilience and then involve PAs and financial institutions in the co-creation of 20 investment strategies innovative, 10 investment plans concrete and scalable e 4 investment houses bankable.

Partner:

• World Climate Foundation (Project Leader)
• University of Antwerp
• SustainAdvisor
• Stockholm Environment Institute
• Ramboll
• ItaSIF
• ICLEI
• Euroquality
• CMCC
• Actierra
• Enviros
• Energy gap
• Diputacion de Avila
• Italian environment
• Chance –
• AdePorto
• Agence du Climat
• Eurometropole De Strasbourg
• Municipality Of Alba Iulia
• Stad Genk
• Municipality of Porto
• Municipality of Maribor
• Liberec
• Flanders Region
• Municipality of Brescia
• Municipality of Bergamo