The European Environment Agency (EEA) has launched the Navigator of Climate Resilience Tools and thrown its institutional weight behind the European Commission's new Climate Resilience Framework, both unveiled on 27 October 2026. The Navigator, hosted on the Climate-ADAPT platform, offers a curated catalogue of interactive tools spanning every stage of climate adaptation — from risk assessment through to planning, implementation and monitoring.
Planners, local authorities and businesses preparing for heatwaves, floods and droughts can search the Navigator by sector, climate hazard, region and adaptation need. Each tool listed has been reviewed by EEA experts, with the support of Eionet, the agency's network of member and cooperating countries. The Navigator is designed to evolve as scientific evidence, datasets and climate projections are updated, with new tools and features to be added over time.
EEA Executive Director Leena Ylä-Mononen said: "The EEA welcomes the Climate Resilience Framework and stands ready to support it with the knowledge, data and tools Europe needs. Building resilience requires not just an understanding of climate risks, but also the right tools to act on them. By guiding users to trusted resources for risk assessment, adaptation planning and implementation, we make existing expertise more accessible and help accelerate resilience-building across Europe."
The Navigator sits alongside two other existing resources — the European Climate Viewer and the Mission Solutions Explorer — which together provide access to data, tools, services and practical solutions for climate adaptation.
The recently improved Climate-ADAPT platform also features alongside the new tools, providing access to climate risk information, adaptation policies, guidance, methodologies, adaptation options and case studies showing how resilience measures are being implemented across Europe.
Separately, the EEA published on the same date a methodology paper for the next European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA-2). The assessment will be developed collaboratively with stakeholders and is designed around users' needs. It takes what the EEA describes as a holistic, solution-oriented and policy-relevant approach, considering interconnected risks and identifying practical adaptation barriers, enabling conditions and policy levers.
The overarching Climate Resilience Framework, launched by the European Commission, is described as an integrated framework for European climate resilience and risk management, intended to help member states prevent and prepare for the growing impacts of climate change. EEA data and assessments show that the effects of climate change do not stop at national borders and are best tackled at European level, and the framework builds on this understanding.
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