Adapting to climate change means taking action to prepare and adjust to the current effects of climate change and its predicted impacts in the future.
Despite all the continuing efforts to reduce emissions and to achieve carbon neutrality, a warmer climate can’t be avoided anymore, and we need to be better prepared to cope with its inevitable effects by adapting our way of living. We must step up action to cut emissions and to build our resilience.
Cities are where many of us live, study, work, access healthcare and culture, and raise our families. They are also producing the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants that affect negatively our wellbeing and climate. This is why we need to achieve climate-neutral cities. What does this mean? It means keeping emissions so low that we leave hardly any impact on the environment.
Right now, 112 mission cities are racing to become climate-neutral by 2030 and inspire every city to do the same, and guess what? The citizens are the real heroes here, because for cities to achieve climate neutrality, we all need to step up and become climate-neutral citizens!
The EU Sparks journey
What will your journey within the EU Sparks for Climate adventure will be?
