Traditionally, the climate debate has been dominated by climate mitigation – efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, as the impacts of climate change are becoming more visible around the globe, climate adaptation – measures to adapt to climate impacts – is getting more and more attention. Lisanne Groen (assistant professor at the Open Universiteit) joins us in this episode to talk about her research on climate adaptation. What is climate adaptation? What are some of the barriers to it? If you would like to learn more about Lisanne’s work, you can go to https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2022.2064535, to read the article ‘Re-examining policy stability in climate adaptation through a lock-in perspective’ by Lisanne Groen, Meghan Alexander, Julie P. King, Nicolas W. Jager and Dave Huitema, published in Journal of European Public Policy. Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.

In 2019, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal – its strategy to transform the EU into a low-carbon society. To do so, it proposed a wide range of measures that focus not only on reducing emissions, but also on restoring nature and making sure that no one is left behind. In this episode of ‘How Green Deal?’, Sebastian Oberthür (professor at the VUB, and UEF) helps us make sense of the all-encompassing European Green Deal. What are the EU's objectives? And how is it planning on reaching them? Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.