The EU Adaptation Strategy presents not only priorities for action, but a vision of how adaptation to climate change should take place, writes Richard J. T. Klein. Richard J. T. Klein is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, a non-profit research and policy group. From now on, ‘just resilience’ will be a guiding concept for climate adaptation in Europe. The entire Commission, all EU institutions and EU member states will need to take note. As strategies go, this one is pretty good. It observes the EU’s principle of subsidiarity by not getting in the way of what is already happening at local, regional and national levels. And yet the EU Adaptation Strategy raises the profile of adaptation to climate change as a key element of the European Green Deal and identifies opportunities for the EU to advance adaptation at all levels.