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National Adaptation Strategies - UK. 21 March 2005 Andy Deacon Global Atmosphere Division. Outline. What is needed? Building adaptive capacity Tools and understanding Delivering Adaptation Action Experience of adaptation in practice Next Steps. Guidance - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
National
Adaptation
Strategies - UK21 March 2005
Andy Deacon
Global Atmosphere
Division
Outline
• What is needed?Building adaptive capacity
Tools and understandingDelivering Adaptation Action
Experience of adaptation in practice
• Next Steps
UKCIP toolkitGuidance• Risk and uncertainty in decision
making: “Climate adaptation: Risk, uncertainty and decision-making”
• Costing the impacts of climate change
• Handling uncertainty in climate scenarios
Scenarios• UKCIP02 climate change scenarios• Socio-economic scenariosWeb-based tools (in development)• Adaptation Wizard: How to use all
UKCIP resources in planning for adaptation
• Adaptation case studies: Examples of adaptation being implemented in the UK
Climate adaptation: risk, uncertainty & decision-making (UKCIP 2003)
Main drivers behind decision
Criteria for Stage 5 – legislation, risk attitude, thresholds
Tiered risk assessment – climate and non-climate factors
No-regret, low-regret, win-win optionsFlexible optionsDelay/Do nothing?
Evaluate against Stage 2 criteria
Bring info togetherFinal checks
Is climate change a risk to project, programme, agency,etc ?
UKCIP Adaptation Wizard
Climate Change Proofing• Climate change proofing within
Defra• Risk-based & identifies priorities
for early action :• Long-term investment and
infrastructure decisions• Long-term policies and
regulation• Contingency planning• Win-wins• Evidence base• Stakeholders
• Work within other government Departments
What is needed (1):Adaptation Policy Framework
Purpose :
Set objectives and measure progress
• Provide structure
• for policies and measures
• for different actors (regional, local)
• Communication
• Longer term view
What is needed (2):Better understanding at regional scale
• Regional research in the UK, 2004–06• To inform regional decision-making and
help target effective adaptation responses
• Six priority topics, identified by stakeholders:• Planning, land-use and the built
environment• Business• Water• Countryside and the rural economy• Quantifying the costs• Guidelines for adaptation strategies
What is needed (3):Guidelines for adaptation
• Project underway to explore what adaptation means in practice to date
• Two tasks:• inventory of adaptation options
and strategies at different scales in the UK, from individual companies, to sectoral responses
• assessment of • (a) why these options and
strategies were formulated, and
• (b) how they relate to other options and strategies
Next Steps
• Adaptation in practice project report
• UKCIP Integration report
• Synthesis report on impacts of climate on Central Government Departments
• Work on indicators and targets for adaptation
• Adaptation Policy Framework - before end 2005