Adaptation: taking action – Climate Chance Europe Africa 2025 Summit
Adapting to climate change is a crucial issue in 2025, at the heart of climate action at local and regional level.
In 2024, the 1st international event dedicated to adaptation, co-organised with Wallonia, was a success and contributed to the European work led by the Belgian Presidency on adaptation to climate change, nature-based solutions and resilience. It concluded with the Liège Declaration: advocacy messages and concrete recommendations from non-state actors to adapt Europe to climate change, brought to the attention of the European institutions with a view to a renewed and strengthened European Green Deal after 2024.
To build on these actions and take them a step further, the Climate Chance Europe Africa 2025 Summit, organised with the city of Marseille, marks a new milestone, essential for strengthening Europe’s adaptation strategy and policies, cooperation between Europe and Africa, and the efforts to be made collectively on these issues.
Click here to read the Marseille Declaration, calling for stronger cooperation between Africa and Europe on adaptation.
The summit will also result in an Action Plan, advocacy for European territories to adapt, the outcome of discussions and proposals from the forty or so sessions held during the summit. This plan will be presented at the end of May, following a synthesis of the sessions held during the event.