Videos
Local stakeholder comment on the status of adaptation to climate change. These recordings were created as part of the “Regional availability of climate knowledge in the Baltic Sea region” workshop series held from 24 to 28 October 2011 in Szczecin, Gdansk, Klaipeda, and Riga. The statements are excerpts taken from workshop recordings and interviews. The goal of the workshop series was to present and exchange information about climate change and adaptation at the local level. The perceptions of local decision makers from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were surveyed along with their wishes for a European adaptation strategy.
The workshops were organized by Ecologic Institute, Berlin with the support of the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht. The effort was a cooperation of the RADOST (Regional Adaptation Strategies for the German Baltic Sea Coast) project with BALTADAPT and Circum Mare Balticum (Regional availability of climate knowledge in the Baltic Sea region).
SHORT MOVIE
Scientists and local stakeholders from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia comment on climate change and climate adaptation. Local problems and solutions in the different countries are described and the advantages of an international exchange of experience are emphasized.
STATEMENTS
Evita Pūķe from Grobiņa County Council in Latvia on local problems and her expectations for the workshop:
Christoph Lehners, civil engineer, on a coastal protection project at Timmendorf Beach, Germany:
Andrzej Cieślak, Maritime Office Gdynia, about the long-term coastal protection strategy in Poland:
Lelde Špickopfa from Rucava City Council in Latvia on local challenges:
Sandra Enderwitz (Bay of Kiel Climate Alliance, Germany) on the “resort bus” project combining climate change mitigation and adaptation:
Virge Pihel from Kuresaare city government about municipal adaptation activities:
Andris Urtāns from the Latvian Nature Conservation Agency about an adaptation measure:
Dace Liepniece-Liepiņa from Liepaja City Council in Latvia about her motivation to participate in the workshop on adaptation:
