The Resilience Assesment Tool (ResAT) is based on the adaptive capacity, a heuristic that has been developed to assess the capability of governance institutions and policies to enable society to adapt to climate change. Its traffic light system, with red indicating that a particular dimension of resilience is not sufficiently addressed, has been found very useful in communication with governance actors. This new tool provides three novelties:  1) New insights from the literature published since the adaptive capacity wheel was first developed in 2010 is included ; 2) the tool addresses the three resilience dimensions of robustness, adaptability and transformability, while the adaptive capacity wheel mainly focusses on adaptability; 3) The tool has been adjusted to the specific resilience challenges to European farming systems so as to analyse the extent to which policies enable or hinder their resilience.