The project's overall objective was to evaluate, enhance and adapt existing management and conservation strategies in protected sites to pro-actively respond on likely influences of CC as a threat to habitat integrity and diversity. Furthermore, a monitoring concept was developed to detect changes caused either by human activity or climate change effects. This proved to be a very valuable tool especially for the administrations of nature protected areas.

• Identification of potential CC induced threats,
• Evaluation of existing management practices,
• Deriving a set of indicators reflecting local-scale effects,
• Establishing monitoring measures based on earth observation data and ground truthing,
• Modeling regional climate change effects and risks for protected areas,
• Supporting protected site authorities with decision support tool,
• Adapting management plans, strategies and measures of protected areas to climate change effects,
• Fostering awareness rising on the demand for adaptive management,
• Recommendations for CC adapted guidelines regarding protected areas on national and EU-level.