On 23 June 2026, three Horizon Europe projects – ACCREU, CROSSEU and SPARCCLE – came together for a joint webinar exploring the macroeconomic dimensions of climate change adaptation.

Adaptation is one of the pillars of climate change policy. Nonetheless, given its multidimensional and context specific nature it is also an elusive concept whose systematic assessment is challenging. Problems are amplified when we try a macroeconomic evaluation of adaptation actions. A countless and often uncoordinated number of public sector, household and firm measures need to be pooled. But, once aggregated, not only their effectiveness, but also their impact on economic growth, the fiscal system, public budget stability can be substantive. During this webinar, the three EU projects presented their findings on the macroeconomics of climate change adaptation contributing to bridge a research gap that still remains largely unaddressed.

INVITED PANELISTS

• Johannes Emmerling, CMCC Foundation, SPARCCLE Project
  The Macroeconomics of Adaptation – results from the SPARCCLE project
  
• Nicholas Vasilakos, University of East Anglia, CROSSEU Project
  Climate Change, Economic Resilience and Adaptation Strategy: Implications for Growth, Inequality and Policy
• Alexandra Lehner, University of Graz, ACCREU Project
  Budgets in high water? Fiscal implications of flood adaptation in the United Kingdom

MODERATOR

• Francesco Bosello, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ACCREU Project Coordinator