ClimaResponse workshop explores practical tools to strengthen local climate resilience

On 26 November 2025, SEI Tallinn and Gävle municipality hosted an online workshop with about 40 participants from municipalities and regional organisations across Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Norway as part of the ClimaResponse project.

The workshop focused on understanding local needs for strengthening climate resilience and introduced three practical tools under development:

1. A dashboard for visualising, monitoring and evaluating climate resilience measures,
2. Guidance for setting up urban weather sensor networks, and
3. Guidance for establishing an Extreme Weather Bank for crisis preparedness.

Municipal experts working in climate adaptation, planning, environment, water and crisis management shared their experiences and reflected on how these tools could support their daily work and connect with existing systems such as GIS platforms, crisis management structures and alert systems.

Across the breakout discussions, participants stressed the need to better combine real-time and historical data, link climate adaptation with disaster risk reduction, and ensure that tools work for municipalities with very different levels of capacity and data maturity.

Key challenges included breaking down silos between departments, clarifying responsibilities for system maintenance, and securing long-term resources, especially in smaller municipalities. There was strong demand for practical guidance on collaboration, public communication and decision support, as well as for flexible solutions that serve both technical users and the general public.

As next steps, the ClimaResponse team will integrate the workshop feedback into the development process of the dashboard template and guidance documents.

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