The Mission Solutions Explorer is where you look up what other cities and regions have already tried, and how a measure was resourced. A neighbouring project’s cost is not a cost for your site.
EU Mission Solutions Explorer: What Other Places Tried, and How It Was Resourced
EU Mission Solutions Explorer: What Other Places Tried, and How It Was Resourced
The question the Mission Solutions Explorer answers is: what have other cities and regions already tried, and how was it resourced?
It does not answer what the same measure would cost on your site.
What it is
The Mission Solutions Explorer sits on the portal of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. The portal describes it as a way to find practical adaptation solutions and experiences from across Europe, filter them by country, climate hazard, or theme, and read the benefits beyond adaptation — economic, social, and environmental — plus guidance on who can apply an approach and how it might be implemented elsewhere. One of the theme filters is adaptation funding and financing.
It was launched alongside the EU Framework for Climate Resilience. COM(2026) 720 says the Explorer shows how measures have been resourced, what benefits they bring, and how they can be replicated, and that the Commission will open the collection more widely. The portal itself groups the Explorer with the other two tools launched for the framework: the hazard map and the tool catalogue.
Use it after you know the hazard. The European Climate Viewer is the regional screen. The EEA Navigator is where you find an assessed tool for that hazard and sector. The Explorer is the third step: an implemented example, not a method.
What not to expect
A page about Antwerp’s cool spots, or a floodplain project in Czechia, is evidence that someone did the thing and wrote down what they learned. It is not:
- a unit cost you can paste into your budget
- a bill of quantities for your ground conditions
- a residual-risk figure after the measure
- proof that the same design is appropriate under your planning rules
Resourcing is part of the record the Commission asked for. “How it was paid for” on another site — a mission project, a regional budget, a public-private arrangement — does not travel. Ground, standards, labour, and who owns the asset all change the number. If an entry has no cost at all, do not fill the gap with a neighbouring example.
Where to go next
If the question is whether the asset even falls inside a coarse climate-hazard screen for finance, that is EIB ClimateSET, when it is released. It will not price the measure either.
How the Explorer fits the other public tools is in EU climate resilience tools and enterprise data. Turning an example into a cost and a residual risk for a named site is a separate piece of work: EU Climate Resilience Framework readiness.
Sources
- EU Mission on Adaptation, Mission Solutions Explorer
- European Commission, COM(2026) 720, section 3.1, 27 October 2026