ALBAdapt – Climate Services for a Resilient Albania

The ALBAdapt project seeks to transform Albania's climate services value chain to address high disaster risks from floods, droughts, and heat waves. The project focuses on three components: establishing a National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) to improve hydrometeorological data and coordination; implementing a multi-hazard impact-based early warning system (MHIEWS) to enable early action; and fostering climate-informed investments, specifically through Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the coastal zone. With a total indicative cost of EUR 49.95 million, the project targets the entire population of 2.8 million for early warning services and 400,000 people in the coastal zone for specific adaptation innovations.

• Albania is identified as having the highest overall disaster risk among all European countries, with significant vulnerability to floods, droughts, and heat waves.
• Climate projections for Albania indicate rising temperatures, with an expected increase of 1.0 to 1.3°C between 2020 and 2039 and up to 4.4°C by 2100 relative to a 1986-2005 baseline.
• The Albanian coastal zone is particularly vulnerable, accounting for one-third of the national territory and half of the population, and is critical for the agriculture and tourism sectors.
• Albania's capacity to manage climate risks is limited by the government's inability to produce high-quality science-based information and the lack of a functioning national regulatory framework for climate services.
• The project aims to establish a National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) and a multi-hazard impact-based early warning system (MHIEWS) to shift from reactive hazard-based warnings to user-centered, impact-based services.
• The project will implement a grant-making mechanism through the Albania Development Fund (ADF) to finance Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) measures, as well as climate innovation.
• The total indicative cost of the project is EUR 49.95 million, with EUR 35.45 million requested as a grant from the Green Climate Fund and EUR 14.5 million in co-financing.
• The project expects to benefit the entire population of 2.8 million people through the new early warning system and approximately 400,000 people in the coastal zone through targeted adaptation innovations.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). ALBAdapt – Climate Services for a Resilient Albania. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/26460-albadapt-climate-services-resilient-albania.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. ALBAdapt – Climate Services for a Resilient Albania. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/26460-albadapt-climate-services-resilient-albania.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022albadapt, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{ALBAdapt – Climate Services for a Resilient Albania}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = aug, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/26460-albadapt-climate-services-resilient-albania.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }