Welcome to the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Portal of the Netherlands. The Knowledge Portal is the primary source of information for everyone engaged in climate adaptation. It features practical information, useful tools, inspiring examples, and the latest news. Together, we will climate-proof the Netherlands.
Download photos from the free image bank
The free image bank contains copyright-free photos relating to climate adaptation. The image bank is under development and will be supplemented in the years ahead. We would love some help! Do you have photos of extreme weather or adaptation measures? Share your images with us and contribute to a growing collection that will inspire others to take action.
Explore topics via the knowledge dossiers
The knowledge dossiers on this knowledge portal can help you to find out more about a topic. The knowledge dossiers feature many links to interesting examples, studies, fact sheets, tools, guidelines, and so on. You can find out more about the themes of climate change, flooding, waterlogging, drought, heat and urban water quality.
Tools to put climate adaptation into practice
On this portal you will find an overview of tools to get started with climate adaptation. Examples of tools that are often used are the Climate Impact Atlas, the NAS Adaptation tool, the Climate Damage Atlas and the Green-blue Knowledge Bank. Do you find it difficult to determine which tool you need? Then the decision aid can be useful.
Examples of climate adaptation
The Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
This knowledge portal section presents information on the consequences of climate change for the Caribbean islands and on the steps that the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba can take to adapt to the consequences.
Policy and programmes
To make the Netherlands climate-proof and water-resilient, climate adaptation must be part of policy and implementation at all levels of government. On the Policies and programmes page you can read how this is organised in the Netherlands.