What is the aim of the training?
This is the first out of two identical briefing sessions that aim at supporting CEN and CENELEC Technical Committees (TCs) on including adaptation to climate change in their standards. This training will equip TCs and their Working Groups (WGs) on how to use the “Tailored Guidance for Standardization Technical Committees” to identify climate issues in their standards and to address these in line with the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. This training will identify TCs and WGs that identify as able to proceed with minimum further assistance, and those that require more support on climate change adaptation from our experts.
Why are we organising the training?
The training is organised in view of the tangible and progressive climate changes and the associated political calls for action; it is becoming increasingly important to create climate-resilience through standards. The Union's Annual Work Programme for European Standardization 2024 calls on the European standardization system to revise infrastructure and non-infrastructure standards whose content is vulnerable to climate impacts with the aim of improving their climate resilience. In this regard CEN and CENELEC received a draft Standardization Request to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation in European Standardization, which refers to the “Tailored Guidance for Standardization Technical Committees” as supporting material.