Good Practice Workshop on “Climate Change mitigation and adaptation: Assessing the scope and measuring the outcomes” – Larnaca, Cyprus – 10 & 11 February 2014
The EU 2020 strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth aims to reduce GHG emission by 20% compared to 1990 levels, use 20% of renewable energy sources in the final energy consumption and a 20% increase in energy efficiency.
Rural areas are being called upon to step up their efforts to meet the ambitious climate and energy targets of the EU. The land use sector, acting as a source but also as a sink for greenhouse gas emissions, offers interesting and feasible possibilities for implementing technical and economic measures to reduce emissions and to adapt to climate change.
Managing Authorities (MAs) are at the moment approaching the ex post evaluation of 2007-2013 RDPs and designing the 2014-2020 programmes. A good understanding of the impacts of mitigation and adaptation activities becomes fundamental in the formulation of 2014-2020 RDPs in order to maximize their effective and efficient contribution to rural development, CAP and EU 2020 objectives. Some measures in the 2007-13 RDPs addressed climate change and many lessons can be drawn from the assessment of the 2007-2013 RDPs which can help MAs and evaluators in the formative evaluation of new programmes at the development and design phase of mitigation and adaptation activities for the 2014-2020 RDPs.
In close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of Cyprus the Evaluation Helpdesk organised a Good Practice Workshop (GPW) “Climate Change mitigation and adaptation: Assessing the scope and measuring the outcomes”. It took place in Larnaca (Cyprus) on the 10&11 of February 2014
PRESENTATIONS
Programme [PDF 
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Introduction and framing
- Opening and welcome
Mr Nikos Kouyialis- Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of Cyprus - Objectives of the workshop
Peter Schneidewind– Helpdesk of the Evaluation Expert Network [PDF] - Climate change in the EU: Current context and trends
Herwig Ranner, - European Commission DG Agriculture and Rural Development [PDF] - Assessing RDPs contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation
Zélie Peppiette, - European Commission DG Agriculture and Rural Development [PDF] - Increasing capacities of RDPs to respond to climate change challenges
Bill Slee, Helpdesk of the Evaluation Expert Network [PDF] - Results of the survey on climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in EU MS
Angelos Sanopoulos, Helpdesk of the Evaluation Expert Network [PDF] - “The Rural Development Programme strategy for water stressed and scarcity”, Dr Androula Georgiou and George Nikolaou – Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment - Cyprus [PDF ]
- “Climate change, wildfire prevention and rural development”, Jorge Rodríguez, - Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment; Ricardo Pedraz Helpdesk of the Evaluation Expert Network - Spain [PDF ]
- “Mainstreaming GHG Mitigation and Adaptation across Irish Agriculture”, John Muldowney -Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine – Ireland [PDF ]
- “Climate change mitigation and adaptation in the RDPs – Case Study RDP Wales – United Kingdom”, James Skates - Soil Policy and Environmental Monitoring Specialist of the Welsh Government – United Kingdom [PDF ]
Exchange Session – Case studies: Assessing climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in Member States
OUTCOMES
- Read our comprehensive outcome document from the Good Practice Workshop “Evaluation of climate change activities in the 2014-2020 RDPs” [PDF ]
- Results of the survey on climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in EU MS [PDF ]
- Newsletter of the Good Practice Workshop “Climate change mitigation and adaptation: Assessing the scope and measuring the outcomes” – Larnaca, Cyprus – 10 & 11 February 2014 [PDF ]
CONTACT
- For more information: info@ruralevaluation.eu
OTHER RELATED DOCUMENTATION
Synthesis Report Addressing Climate Change within the post-Health Check Rural Development Programmes (2007-13), European Network for rural development (2010)