Climate resilience
of the Marais poitevin
The LIFE Maraisilience project
4 years of collective action for adaptation to climate change in the Marais Poitevin.
The LIFE Maraisilience project is a project led by nine public organizations involved in the Marais Poitevin region. Its aim is to bring together local stakeholders around a common issue:
How will we live in the Marais Poitevin in 2050, in a context of climate change?
Launched in October 2024 for a period of 4 years, it benefits from the European LIFE funding program.
Find on this site all the information about the project, actions, upcoming events, news and documents to download.
The Marais Poitevin faces new climatic challenges
The Marais Poitevin is the first wetland on the French Atlantic coast, certified by Ramsar since 2023, recognizing its international importance. Shaped by humans for several centuries, this vast territory is now facing new climatic challenges.
- Increasingly frequent and intense weather hazards: river floods, marine submersion, storms, drought, etc.
- A rise in ocean level, while the Marais Poitevin is partly located below ocean level and receives fresh water from the surrounding rivers.
A European climate project in the Marais Poitevin
To anticipate climate change, the Marais Poitevin has decided to mobilize collectively, within the framework of a European “LIFE” project.
Selected in 2023 by the European Commission, “LIFE Maraisilience” benefits from the LIFE program, a financial instrument of the European Commission dedicated to supporting innovative projects in the fields of the environment and climate.
3 goals
- Better understand and share the challenges of climate change
- Getting residents, socio-economic stakeholders and elected officials to think together
- Define concrete adaptation actions at the end of the project, an approach that can be replicated in Europe
9 structures collectively engaged
The LIFE Maraisilience project is coordinated by the Parc naturel régional du Marais poitevin with 8 co-beneficiaries:
LIFE Maraisilience News
Groupama Centre-Atlantique, new partner of the LIFE Maraisilience project
As an insurer historically linked to the agricultural sector, Groupama will enable the LIFE Maraisilience project to implement specific actions to adapt this sector to climate change. This partnership will allow us, in particular, to support several...
Report: “The Marais Poitevin faces the challenge of climate change”
The Marais Poitevin is a fragile territory, vulnerable to climate change. Subject to increasingly severe weather hazards, how can we preserve the Marais Poitevin, protect its heritage, and adapt it to future conditions? Through the project...
MAAF Assurances, partner of the Maraisilience project
This Friday, June 27, MAAF and the Marais Poitevin Regional Natural Park formalized their partnership at the MAAF premises in Chauray (79), marking a key milestone in the European LIFE Maraisilience project. This collaboration illustrates a shared commitment to...
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