The Regional Act on the recovery of Galician agricultural land (2021, Galician Parliament) is a pioneering piece of agrilaw in Spain. It sets up the general framework for the management and use management of agriland. It aims at fighting abandonment and promoting agriland recovery, tackling environmental risk linked to depopulation (forest fires), while enhancing resilience and adaptation to climate change of our rural areas, by putting that land into green agriproduction. Some examples of relevant issues covered by this act: agriland ownership legal inquiry procedure, mobilisation of abandoned rural properties, the Galicia Map of agroforestry uses, the Catalogue of high productivity soils, specific land recovery legal instruments (agroforestry plots or model villages), support and fiscal measures. Access to agriland for all (vulnerable groups) and sustainable agroforestry jobs and wealth creation will help to fight environmental problems in depopulated areas.
The Galician Act on the Recovery of Agrarian Land has been passed by the Galician regional Parliament of Galicia in May 2021. It has been published by the Official Journal of the Galician Regional Parliament on 12th May 2021. It has been published by the Official Journal of Galicia on 21st May 2021. It is a piece of law in full force since 22nd May 2021.Its provisions are fully enforceable now and will remains so for as long as the Galician legislative body doesn’t decide otherwise.

The policy instrument covers 15 municipalities, 1 urban and 14 rural areas, and aims to draft a common development strategy for the territories involved to improve the situation of both areas by establishing connections and developing projects together. It seeks to tackle the following challenges:
- Agriculture and land management: the entrepreneurial structure of the urban area shows a high number of micro and small businesses with a predominance in the agricultural sector. Due to climate change effects, the area has a landslide hazard rate of 30.50%, also mainly due to the process of abandonment of agricultural lands. Furthermore, the percentage of municipalities with high seismic class is very high.
- Depopulation: regarding the depopulation process affecting the strategy area and in general the whole Molise Region, one big impact is caused by the youth employment percentage that in the 15 municipalities is around 30.55% while in Italy it is equal to 36.3%.

Therefore, the following objectives – closely connected to the topics of the project – have been established:
- Support the competitiveness of the local enterprises in rural areas and promote entrepreneurship also in agriculture.
- Improve the efficiency and the quality of the public services in rural areas also thanks to digitalization processes.
- Strengthen the knowledge and skills of partner administrations on strategic planning models applicable to the vast area identified.

The current Sustainable Development Strategy promotes the sustainable development of Romania by focusing on Sustainable Development’s three dimensions: economic, social, and environmental. It is citizen-centred and focuses on innovation, optimism, resilience, and the belief that the role of the state is to serve the needs of each citizen in a fair, efficient, and balanced manner, all within a clean environment. It represents the "lighthouse" that guides the implementation of the 2030 Agenda of the UN in all sectoral policies that can promote sustainable development at the national level, establishing objectives until 2030.Therefore, the effectiveness of this strategy goes beyond 2018, regardless of its connection to the UN Agenda.

Among its objectives, the strategy aims to develop a sustainable and competitive agri-food sector for improving the quality of life and ensuring close living conditions in rural areas, the promotion of local and ecological production and capitalization value-added traditional products.

The priority of the strategy is to improve the level of agricultural productivity, considering environmental factors (air, water, soil quality, biodiversity), by eliminating the main limiting factors of production yield: fragmentation of agricultural land and lack of cooperation between farmers, level of training of farmers, low capitalization, clearly indefinite professional status of the farmer, the level of technological endowment of farms.

The regional plan contains specifications regarding the land use and infrastructure of settlements, the spatial distribution of cities and towns, open spaces, natural resources, train routes, and so on in the Neckar-Alb region. It also has a pillar regarding natural protection. This plan is the legal instrument that takes the development goal of the national level and adapts it to a regional level. The development of the 66 cities and towns of the Region needs to be aligned with the specification of the plan. Since 2022, the Neckar-Alb Regional planning association is involved in an obligatory national task. Whitin this, 2% of the land use of the region need to be used for the production of renewable energy with wind or solar sources.
The Neckar-Alb Regional planning association is working on this task since mid of last year and we do see an important link with the Down-to-Earth project. This is about the innovation regarding renewable energy in the rural areas combined with the modernization of the areas and the development of policies to promote a living in the rural areas. The Regional Plan will be updated and the results of the project will have a direct impact on the region and the most important instrument in its further development.

The PI of Western Greece comprises several strategic axes, aiming to ensure the regional development and the improvement of the quality of life of its citizens. The project focuses on Policy Objective 2 of the Policy Instrument, «Greener Europe», which aims to address regional challenges that include the following: protection of natural and cultural environment, the continuation of interventions in flood protection and coastal protection projects, as well as protection against natural disasters, monitoring the impact of Climate Change, improving the adequacy of civil protection equipment, awareness and training of human resources

Strategic Objective 2 of the Policy Instrument, focuses on “Protecting the natural environment, tackling and adapting to climate change, strengthening energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening energy self-sufficiency and the circular economy".

Indeed, the Specific Objective (SO) 2iv) focuses on “Promoting the adaptation in climate change, and resilience into disaster risk prevention.

Through the results of regional analyses regarding the climate vulnerability of the geographical areas of the Region of Western Greece, there have been assessed the immediate and long-term effects of climate change in different environmental aspects, in the economic and social activity of the Region. For this purpose, the initiatives foreseen in this SO are very crucial for the future of the Region.

Regional development program's for Gorenjska region 2021-2027(RDP) main objective is to harmonize the development goals of the development region in the field of economic, social, educational, public health, spatial and environmental and cultural development in the region and to assess the instruments and resources for their implementation. RDPs are prepared at the level of the development region, which is a territorial unit of NUTS 3l, the area of the Gorenjska development region includes 18 municipalities. In the priority development of countryside the topics of importancy of farming production and preservation of biodiversity is mentioned, while connection between climate change and farming/preservation of production of cultural crops/biodiversity is not addressed yet. Additionally the specific challenges of climate change in connection with the specific issues of countryside is not included yet (draught, floods…).