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Seven cities and regions in the Western Balkans will receive financial and technical support to enhance their climate resilience.
Four local authorities in Albania and one each in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia are among the 69 in 23 countries selected within the CLIMAAX call for applications.
As a result of the two open calls, municipalities, cities and regions will receive more than EUR 12 million in total from the European Union’s Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, the announcement reads.
The maximum amount of financial support within CLIMAAX ranges between EUR 115.227 and EUR 300.000.
The selected cities and regions will conduct multi-risk climate risk assessments
Tirana, Vlora, Belsh, and Libohova in Albania became beneficiaries together with the municipalities of Neum in BiH and Bijelo Polje in Montenegro and the Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection in Serbia’s Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
As for other countries tracked by Balkan Green Energy News, regions and cities in Bulgaria (7), Croatia (2), Cyprus (1), Greece (8), Romania (3), Slovenia (1), and Turkey (7) have also been selected, according to the List of selected beneficiaries 1 and List of selected beneficiaries 2.
The CLIMAAX program highlights the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and other climate-related hazards as significant risks to economies, societies, and ecosystems across the globe. Therefore it is critical to understand the risks and develop effective strategies to manage and adapt to them.
Sempere-Torres: We are building a collaborative network of communities committed to climate resilience across Europe
The main objective is to support the implementation of the EU Adaptation Strategy and especially the first objective of the Horizon Europe Mission Adaptation: preparing and planning for climate resilience.
Selected cities and regions will implement the proposed methodological framework and toolbox to conduct multi-risk climate risk assessments. The regions are eligible for support from the CLIMAAX consortium in their work on the assessments.
“With CLIMAAX expanding to more regions, we are enhancing our efforts to make climate risk assessment into a practical process that leads to real, impactful action. By empowering regions with the necessary tools and financial support, we are not just improving local adaptation strategies—we are building a collaborative network of communities committed to climate resilience across Europe,” said Daniel Sempere-Torres, project co-coordinator of CLIMAAX and director of the Center of Applied Research in Hydrometeorology of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
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