This team is simultaneously raising awareness of local stakeholders and providing training to municipal technicians regarding Climate Change Adaptation issues, while promoting Adaptation mainstreaming into local planning tools/policy. A transdisciplinary and highly recognized team is supporting 26 pilot-municipalities in elaborating their own Municipal Adaptation Strategies and facilitating their implementation. Integrating adaptation into municipal and sectoral agents decision and planning processes. The reduction of barriers and constraints on the local actors involvement on adaptation process 5. Promotion and provision of local adaptation knowledge particularly in the definition of strategies, planning and implementation of measures and results communication 4. Creating a community of municipal actors, aware of climate change issues and trained for the use of decision support tools on adaptation 3. Embedding the climate change adaptation dimension on municipal level in Portugal 2.

Searching for an effectively promotion of CC adaptation at local level, the following are the main objectives: 1. The project is aligned with the main aims of the European Strategy for Adaptation to CC and of the Portuguese Strategy for Adaptation to CC (ENAAC).

This is a very first presentation of ClimAdaPT.Local project, as well as some of its first results.

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