About the project

The project’s full title:
Preparation of a strategy for adaptation to climate change of the city of Warsaw with the use of city climate mapping and with public participation

Duration: 1 July 2014 – 31 December 2018 (extended to 30 June 2019)

Background
Climate change is at present one of the largest challenges that we, humankind, are facing and must address in order to prevent irreversible changes from happening in the not so distant future and save people and the planet.

Towns and cities, with a great concentration of people, are particularly prone to negative impact of climate change. Currently 74% of people in the EU live in towns and cities, in Poland 60% of the population live in urban areas.

We need urgent action in order to adapt urban areas to global climate change. It is estimated that climate change will continue, which will result in substantial challenges for towns and cities. Intensifying extreme weather phenomena will include, above all, heat waves, floods, droughts and hurricanes which will be increasingly stronger and more frequent.

The project’s overall objective was to reduce negative impact of climate change on the ecosystem of the city of Warsaw and to encourage adaptation measures in other metropolises in Poland.

We have achieved this objective through:

  1. supporting the Warsaw authorities in developing a strategy for adaptation to climate change, with an ecosystem approach, as a good practice and benchmark for other cities – this have been achieved with preparation of the Strategy
  2. encouraging the authorities and municipal service providers in metropolises to act for climate change adaptation on the basis of Warsaw’s experience, what have been achieved through Materopolitan Climate Forums
  3. promoting the instrument of climate prediction maps in building climate change adaptation strategies for cities, what have been achieved manifold, but foremost by preparation of Warsaw Climate Map and the „Warsaw from Space” publication
  4. raising awareness of climate change and adaptation to it among municipal authorities and encouraging them to become involved in initiatives on the EU level what have been measured by opinion pools – see results (PL) in a Report.

You can find out how the project was realised in the Laymans’ Report of the project.