Adaptation and Mainstreaming of EU Climate Change Policy: An Actor-Based Perspective

Abstract

This paper presents ongoing research being carried out for the EU-funded ADAM project (ADaptation And Mitigation strategies: supporting European climate policy). Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the UK, ADAM is an integrated research project running from 2006 to 2009 that will lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies. ADAM will support EU policy development in the follow-on stage of the Kyoto Protocol and will inform the emergence of new adaptation strategies for Europe. CEPS is one of 26 participating research institutes in the project (see http://www.adamproject.eu/). Darryn McEvoy is a senior researcher based at the International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS), University of Maastricht. Kate Lonsdale is affiliated with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Oxford, and Piotr Matczak is a researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan. Other members of the research team included: Tom Downing, Takeshi Takama, Paul Watkiss, Vikrom Mathur and Chiara Sorisi (SEI, Oxford), and Agnieszka Heller and Ilona Banaszak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan). The knowledge and expertise of those interviewed added considerable value to the contents of this study. See the annex for a list of organisations interviewed. CEPS Policy Briefs