Methodology and practical application of the LIFE Biospher'Adapt project
Project principles
Building on existing methodologies: Methodologies and solutions already exist at both national and international levels. Even if initiatives are not always directly transferable, collaboration makes it possible to adapt them, raise awareness, train stakeholders, and inspire others.
Relying on partnerships: One of the project’s strengths is the network of Biosphere Reserves, which encompasses highly diverse environments, issues, socio-economic contexts, and management structures, while sharing common frameworks and working habits. In this way, the results of the actions and experiments carried out by the pilot Biosphere Reserves will be shared and disseminated.
Drawing on the needs and experience of managers: The objective is to develop operational tools that best address the needs of the territories concerned.
Step by step
- Drawing up adaptation plans at Biosphere Reserve level
- Analyze the climatic profile of each territory and its evolution; prepare a vulnerability and opportunity assessment.
- Map local stakeholders and strategy mechanisms.
- Conduct territorial consultations.
- Produce an adaptation plan for each region, including a strategy and action sheets.
- Involving local stakeholders in adaptation actions
- Foster a local dynamic that promotes the exchange, sharing, and dissemination of information among all stakeholders, contributing to the development of a “climate culture.”
- Create tools to mobilize and raise awareness among local actors, elected officials, and residents.
- Experimenting with adaptation actions
- Implement concrete solutions for adapting to climate change.
