Agnès Pannier-Runacher launches the Adaptation Mission to support local authorities in their efforts to adapt to climate change

The 25th measure of the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (PNACC), this mechanism is a one-stop shop designed to provide technical support to local authorities in their projects to adapt their territory to the consequences of climate change. Announced on October 25 by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the PNACC plans France's strategy for adapting society as a whole to climate change in 5 areas and 51 measures.

While not all communities have the internal skills to build a vulnerability analysis, the Adaptation Mission brings together in a common offer the expertise and engineering of State operators (Cerema, Ademe, Water Agencies, Météo-France, the French Biodiversity Office, the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion, the National Agency for Supporting the Performance of Health and Medico-Social Establishments) and the Banque des Territoires. It will make it possible to move from one-off actions to more integrated approaches.

This mission will initially support around a hundred territories, whose feedback will contribute to its generalization in 2025.

The Adaptation Mission offer includes six building blocks:

1. Initial understanding of needs and capacities with an initial exchange between the community and the Mission Adaptation representative to clarify the demand and needs of the communities concerned;
2. Upgrading skills with the implementation of training for community project managers, then for the community and its elected representatives thereafter;
3. Developing an adaptation strategy through long-term work to identify priorities, build partnerships, in line with the reference warming trajectory for adaptation to climate change (TRACC);
4. Referral to operators for thematic in-depth studies: infrastructure, buildings, water resources, depending on the needs expressed by the communities;
5. The handover to private engineering for the implementation of specific actions via support from the Adaptation Mission representatives to guide communities towards qualitative private engineering, in addition to building blocks 3 and 4.
6. Collective animation and continuous improvement through the sharing of good practices, common issues and difficulties, to capitalize on feedback from operators.

The results of the Adaptation Mission will thus make it possible to create:

• an action plan for the community, the milestones of which will be consistent with the TRACC and which will consolidate, among other things, the adaptation component of the territorial climate-air-energy plans (PCAET);
• a large-scale financing plan for the investments to be planned;
• the composition and sequencing of different building blocks of technical and financial offers provided by operators for the implementation of the action plan;
• a sustainable ecosystem of actors to support communities.

For Agnès PANNIER-RUNACHER: "I wanted, even before the end of the consultation on the PNACC, that the Adaptation Mission be launched. To meet the needs of the communities, the State operators and the Banque des Territoires have combined their skills and converged their intervention methods to provide support to the territories in their adaptation strategy. This unified support offer will be deployed after an experiment in 100 pilot territories. I want to salute this commitment of the operators and the Banque des Territoires. We will be there to meet the challenges of adaptation, by making our operational expertise available to local authorities and their groups."