On 10 January 2024, the ACCREU Stakeholder Workshop convened in Brussels, welcoming over 40 participants. Under the theme "Co-designing research on the economics of climate impacts and adaptation," this event is part of the Assessing Climate Change Risk in Europe (ACCREU) project.

The Horizon Europe project ACCREU was launched in June 2023 and aims to assess the economic impact of climate change and the cost-effectiveness of adaptation strategies in Europe within a global context. This workshop was an essential early step in this three-and-a-half-year project.

The event offered a collaborative platform for representatives from diverse sectors including industry, business, civil society, and policy. At this one-day workshop, the research team presented a stocktake of the latest research on sectoral and macro-economic climate risks and impacts, costs and benefits and potential for adaptation. Based on this, participants were given the opportunity to jointly shape the project's research questions so that the outputs can meet real needs and interests. In addition to the collaborative working sessions on climate impacts and adaptation, the project team presented the ACCREU approach to project and scenario framing, and gathered feedback on stakeholders relevant ongoing policy processes and needs.