Ricardo is Helping to Accelerate Europe’s Transformation to a Climate-resilient Future
26 Julio 2023 - 6:05PM
Business Wire
Building on its international expertise in
climate adaptation, Ricardo is delivering adaptation planning and
resilience support to Europe’s regions and local authorities
Ricardo, a global strategic environmental and engineering
consulting company, is leading the EU Mission Implementation
Platform for Adaptation to Climate Change (MIP4Adapt), providing
support to the European Commission and everyone delivering the EU
Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.
The Mission is focused on supporting European regions and local
authorities to accelerate their adaptation to climate change and
building climate resilience. This is of vital importance given the
fact that the impacts of climate change are already happening, and
more regularly – as evidenced by extreme weather events already
increasing in magnitude and frequency which are having direct and
indirect impacts on our environment, society, and economy. In turn,
these impacts may increasingly lead to transnational spill-over
effects on international trade, resource competition, regional
conflict, migration, and the spread of pests and diseases.
Ricardo’s experts across Europe are working closely with the
European Commission in delivering MIP4Adapt – which is the result
of a public procurement process - with the work commitment starting
in 2023 and running until 2025. MIP4Adapt’s core team also includes
experts from: Fresh Thoughts Consulting, Icatalist, the European
Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and Environment –
FEDARENE, and Joanneum Research, as well as experts from across
Europe able to deliver technical assistance to the regional and
local authorities in all 27 EU Member States.
In leading MIP4Adapt, Ricardo is facilitating the development of
a community of practice to promote the exchange of knowledge and
experiences and enable regional and local authorities across Europe
to strengthen coordination and collaboration around climate
adaptation. The community includes the 308 regional and local
authorities that are signatories to the Mission Charter, covers
approximately 40% of Europe’s land area and population, and is
committed to striving towards climate resilience by 2030. In
addition, it comprises relevant EU-funded research and innovation
projects, the European Commission and other relevant European
institutions, national authorities, and Friends of the Mission,
including research institutions and businesses.
Through MIP4Adapt, Ricardo is also delivering technical
assistance to the regional and local authorities that are Charter
signatories. This includes helping them to: develop their climate
adaptation plans; identify appropriate climate adaptation
demonstration projects; identify and access suitable finance and
funding for implementation of their plans and demonstration
projects; and stimulate engagement and mobilisation of citizens and
stakeholders in climate adaptation.
Richard Smithers, Director of MIP4Adapt and Ricardo’s
international lead on climate adaptation said: “Ricardo’s delivery
of MIP4Adapt builds upon our support for the European Commission
over the last decade regarding development and implementation of
the EU Adaptation Strategy. It also draws on Ricardo’s wide-ranging
experience of supporting all aspects of climate adaptation planning
at all scales in over 40 countries beyond Europe, and on the
expertise of our wider team. Through our leadership of MIP4Adapt,
our desire is to help to amplify the Mission’s overall impact
across mainland Europe, so it is greater than the sum of individual
actions.”
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Notes to editors:
About the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change
Further information about the Mission and MIP4Adapt can be found
at the Mission Portal, Visit
https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/mission
About the core team for MIP4Adapt
Ricardo’s core team for MIP4Adapt also includes experts from
Fresh Thoughts Consulting (leading access to the best available
knowledge, tools and methods in association with the European
Environment Agency), Icatalist (leading on stakeholder and citizen
engagement), the European Federation of Agencies and Regions for
Energy and Environment – FEDARENE (supporting networking between
regional and local authorities) and Joanneum Research (fostering
links between the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change and
the four other EU Missions).
About Ricardo
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and
engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock
Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and
employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we
provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge
and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions.
Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and
dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
Visit www.ricardo.com
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Kathryn Bellamy Group Senior Communications Manager Ricardo plc
Email: kathryn.bellamy@ricardo.com Telephone: +44(0)7921 941824
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