Land4Climate

LAND4CLIMATE aims to address challenges associated with climate resilience in regions affected by climate related issues, recognising the crucial role of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to promote systemic change. 

The continental climate, marked by distinct seasons and significant temperature variations, exposes both rural and urban areas to various climate risks such as floods, droughts, wildfires, biodiversity loss, and soil degradation. In response, LAND4CLIMATE focuses on enhancing the resilience of these areas by promoting the implementation of multifunctional NBS on private land.

The slow adoption of NBS is due to various reasons. These include a lack of systemic analysis of cause-effect relations and benefits, a primary focus on public land rather than exploring the potential of private land, and a traditional approach of land acquisition for NBS implementation. To bridge this implementation gap, LAND4CLIMATE aims to provide land policy instruments and business models that encourage private landowners to actively support NBS implementation. By involving these stakeholders, the project makes the most of local knowledge and needs, ensuring a more effective, efficient, legitimate, and just systemic transition to climate resilience.

The mission of LAND4CLIMATE involves testing and demonstrating NBS for systemic climate resilience through innovative land policy strategies in the frontrunning regions. These regions, facing multiple risks, act as examples for implementation and upscaling. The aim is to later replicate these actions in other regions, both within and beyond similar bio-geographical regions. The project engages with six front-running regions and their relative replicating regions, covering both central and peripheral parts of continental bio-geographical areas. This approach facilitates the replication of measures, and inspiration of new synergies between NBS beneficiaries and landowners, ultimately supporting the mainstreaming of NBS across the European Union.

LAND4CLIMATE's outcomes include insights into the new business models, governance approaches, and financing mechanisms for the implementation of innovative NBS on private land. We aim to provide valuable knowledge on climate resilience, placing the land perspective at the core of NBS implementation. By doing so, LAND4CLIMATE actively contributes to adaptation to climate change impacts, offering a blueprint for the effective and efficient governance and implementation of NBS on private land.

LAND4CLIMATE takes action in six European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Romania, and Slovakia.