The TalX2 project follows on from the first TalX: Transboundary Adaptation Learning Exchange project. It is an Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded research project that aims to establish an innovative ‘living lab’ approach, engaging communities and wider stakeholders as equal partners, working alongside government agencies to plan and adapt for an uncertain future and widen the solution space for climate adaptation. 

TalX2 is run through a partnership between Northern Ireland Environment Link, University College Cork, Environmental Research Institute and MaREI (SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine) 

What are the TalX2 objectives? 

The TalX2 research aims to support and progress adaptation action on the island of Ireland. To do this we will:

1. Identify and analyse a range of place-based climate action partnerships both nationally and internationally and identify key principles employed in successful partnership working including the co-benefits and trade-offs;
2. Establish living labs across the island of Ireland and using the TALX framework, work to advance climate action partnerships in these real world settings, unlock co-benefits, and identify no-regret adaptation pathways in line with local, regional and national plans and policies;
3. Identify cross-border areas where transboundary dialogue facilitation would enhance partnership working and provide a programme of activities to help to exploit potential opportunities for partnership working and minimising cascading/ transboundary risks;
4. Evaluate and reflect on how the living labs and the cross-border programme of activities have developed over the course of the project and how engaged and embedded research/researchers can better enable place-based climate action partnerships, develop local adaptive capacity and support decision-making for climate action in Ireland by providing guidance and recommendations for other organisations and communities.

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