The first meeting for 2021 of the project Interreg Italy-Croatia RESPONSe opened yesterday with good news: the municipality of Montemarciano, a pilot area in Marche region, also joined the Covenant of Mayors for Climate&Energy last December. Along with Lignano Sabbiadoro, two of six RESPONSe pilot areas officially join the European initiative that commits participants to implement concrete actions for adaptation to the climate change.
The intensive work, done by the partners in the recent months to collect the data necessary for the vulnerability and risk assessment plans, will feed into six documents. On the basis of these documents, the partners will elaborate six SECAPs (Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan), one for each pilot area.  In addition to Montemarciano, there are also Lignano Sabbiadoro and Brindisi on the Italian front and Cres, Šibenik and the Neretva estuary on the Croatian side.

There are the main activities to be implemented during 2021 before the project ending at 31st December: an hard work with the local public administrations for the definition of SECAPs and the meetings with the local stakeholders to sharing the main important action to focalize the attention of the Action Plans. In addition, RESPONSe will prepare a Climate Menu, a collection of 160 adaptation actions, that will be published online.