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The objective of this report is to provide guidance to decision-makers and practitioners to make focused and smart investments to increase the disaster and climate resilience of critical sectors. This report closes some of these gaps and provides tools and examples for decision-makers on how to prioritize investment in critical sectors for a more resilient Europe.

This report shows that to advance policy change and scale up focused and smart investments in resilience in critical sectors, particularly those related to emergency response, there is a need to tackle existing challenges and leverage opportunities. These opportunities includes:

• Promote and fund research into critical sectors to fill existing data and knowledge gaps.
• Take focused and smart investment decisions to maximize the benefits of investing in resilient critical sectors.
• In line with political commitments and confirmed priorities, commit funds for upgrading, replacement, and maintenance and operation within critical sectors and then track results. 
• As disaster and climate resilience is a cross-cutting and all-of-society effort, strengthen collaboration vertically and horizontally, both through and in support of the above efforts.