Proaktywność klimatyczna jako czynnik wspierający regionalną konkurencyjność i odporność
Climate proactivity as a factor fostering regional competitiveness and resilience

Summary/Abstract: Climate transition affects many social, economic and political processes. With the green transformation and increasing climate change, the competitive paradigm is shifting toward greater impact of environmentally related factors. To improve the com-petitiveness, economic performance and resilience of regional units, appropriate climate change mitigation action and policy are needed. The strategy to anticipate and cope with the inevitable impacts under various climate change scenarios is referred to as climate proactivity. This paper attempts to describe regional climate proactivity in economic, in-stitutional and social dimensions and to examine the differences in climate proactivity approach among European Union regions (NUTS 2). For this purpose, an original re-search model of climate proactivity, synthetic Overall Regional Climate Proactivity Index (ORCPI) and a typology of regions in terms of climate proactivity were developed. The result was a ranking of EU regions and a typology containing 4 groups of regions: leaders, progressive, moderate and lagging behind, into which all EU regions were classified. The survey revealed that Scandinavian regions are the leaders in climate proactivity, while regions from Central and Eastern Europe countries represent the largest group of regions lagging behind.

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