How interconnected critical infrastructures can support societal resilience under future climate. The EU-CIRCLE approach

The EU-CIRCLE project (H2020 GA:653824) has defined a holistic framework, that identifies and assesses the risks caused by several climatic hazards and climate-change stressors to heterogeneous, interconnected and interdependent critical infrastructures(CI). This risk management framework is the first step in ensuring the resilience of vulnerable technological, social and economic infrastructure systems to climate change impacts and in climate proofing the existing critical infrastructures (in terms of identifying indicators and reference states, anticipated adaptive / transformation activities, and investment costing). The framework enables the identification of climate-driven CI risks and the strengthening of relevant resilience capacities (anticipation, absorption, coping, recovery, and adaptation) that are vital for ensuring the resiliency of CI.