The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s climate bank and one of the biggest public infrastructure lenders in Europe, will provide free technical advisory services to help bolster Ischia’s resilience against future extreme weather events and plan the sustainable reconstruction of the Italian island.
The technical advisory services provided by the EIB under the Climate Adaptation Investment Advisory Platform (ADAPT) will help identify climate-adaptation activities, investment options and needs for the technical design of Ischia’s reconstruction to reset and improve the resilience of the affected areas.
Under this mandate, recommendations will be made to Giovanni Legnini, the Italian government’s extraordinary commissioner, on the investment options and climate resilience services required by the public sector to make post-disaster recovery and reconstruction activities more resilient. The technical assistance provided by the EIB also will help id