Managing climate risk for a safer future: a new resilience agenda for Europe

This paper sets out a new political agenda for resilience to be adopted by the new European Commissioners in 2019. As the 2019 European Parliament elections loom and a new European Commission takes office, climate action can become a key driver of a reformed European project for more solidarity, protection and innovation. Climate change and the risks it brings are not confined to any one economic sector, social group, or environmental context. It is all encompassing and so must be the EU’s response – from adopting a new framework to managing climate risk and its uncertainty to delivering solutions that build resilience in the economy to any warming scenarios in a socially sustainable way. Fundamentally, this is about redefining the social contract between citizens and institutions in a climate changed world.