As climate change impacts are intensifying, the need for comprehensive adaptation is strongly increasing to withstand current climate hazard intensities, while it is becoming more evident that mitigation is key to ensure a sustainable future. Therefore, measures for climate adaptation and mitigation have to be tackled by cities, regions and countries in parallel. However, measures are often set-up, planned and implemented within one specific sector without regarding potential interdependencies with other sectors, or other areas. For instance, measures for decreased individual traffic reduce CO2 emissions while giving space for increased greening, therefore positively impacting both mitigation and adaptation.
Within this session we are looking forward to receiving contributions displaying possible processes, methods and tools to increase the awareness, considerations and assessment of interdependencies between mitigation and adaptation. These can be qualitatively and span from linking specific models to complex system dynamics approaches. Further, we encourage applications that describe potential formats to engage with stakeholders for an increased consideration of these interdependencies in local policies and regulations.