The goal of this training academy is the exchange of information among politicians  to inspire the development of local and regional climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, plans and actions, bearing in mind the various EU and international contexts: the EU Green Deal, the EU Adaptation Strategy, the Paris Agreement (including COP26, COP27, COP28 and preparations ahead of COP29 and COP30), the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, among others. The scope of this training is targeted to Europe and Central Asia with examples from Latin America.

This academy follows previous sessions such as the one held in 2022. The concept of a “Climate Academy” is inspired by the EU Urban Agenda, where the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) led the action called “training academy for politicians” (within the Adaptation Partnership of this Agenda) and organised 6 academies between 2019–2020 which  resulted in the production of a Manual on climate adaptation of 100-pages after having held 6 academies between 2019–2020.