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Greece

Overview 

The Greek National Adaptation Hub is facilitated by the Greek Network of Resilient Cities (GNRC), currently the most active national network on climate adaptation, resilience, and civil protection, engaging over 150 local and regional authorities across Greece. The Hub is institutionally anchored to the Ministry of Environment and Energy and the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, with strong cooperation already formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the latter in 2026. Its role has been strengthened through participation in legislative processes, advisory committees, and the monitoring mechanism of the Local Adaptation and Resilience Plans. The Hub operates through a multi-level governance structure involving ministries, regions, and local authorities. Top-tier actors from academia, research institutions, civil society, finance, civil protection, and expert networks form its Scientific Committee. Further actors are engaged in its activities and are anticipated to engage in the thematic working groups planned for the future.

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The Greek National Adaptation Hub organises regular meetings with local authorities across Greece, workshops, trainings, peer-learning activities, activities dedicated to children and youth and multi-stakeholder collaborations that promote innovative governance models for resilience and adaptation. It also develops policy and legislative recommendations – having already achieved to influence the recent Greek Law on Civil Protection. It facilitates thematic exchanges with other National Adaptation Hubs, project partners, and the MIP4Adapt platform and supports two-way advocacy and knowledge transfer between local realities, national policymaking, and EU climate adaptation priorities.

Engaged Entities

• More than 150 local and regional authorities, including municipalities, regions, and municipal agencies, are actively engaged in the Hub and co-signatories of the MoU with the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, demonstrating a true multi-level governance approach. 

• 11 local authorities participate in the GNRC Board, representing diverse territorial typologies such as islands, mountainous areas, urban centres, and rural regions, and ensuring the Hub’s fair territorial approach.

• Over 120 local authorities contributed to a national (still expanding) deep-dive survey on resilience, adaptation, and civil protection, forming the largest data collection effort in Greece on these themes to date. 

• Local authorities collaborate with academia, expert networks, and civil society through the Task Force that supports the Hub’s Action Plan development (expected delivery: early 2027). 

• A stepwise engagement model foresees the launch of local-authority-led thematic working groups by 2027.

  • Promote innovative governance models for resilience and adaptation
  • Influence policy and legislation to promote multi-level governance, enhance local adaptive capacity (authorities and communities), and connect Greek stakeholders with the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change and MIP4Adapt.

Partners

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