Climate Change Adaptation

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Climate Change Adaptation

• Being prepared to deal with / adapt to the
  inevitable
• Extreme weather, flood, heat stress, water
  shortage, crop and habitat risk
• Sea Level Rise
• (more detail in next talk)
• What Government is doing/ what it will require of
  the public sector through Local Area Agreements

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LAA indicators 188, 189

• 188 Planning to adapt to Climate Change
• Public sector (LAs) and partners to embed
  management of climate change risks across all
  local authority services, plans and estates
• To protect community from direct effects (flood,
  heat, disease)
• Reduce risk to services from extreme weather
  effects
• Climate change to be integrated into everyday
  business and strategic planning building
  resilience and taking adaptive action
• Protect habitats and/ or facilitate adaptation
• 189 Flood Coastal erosion risk management
• Implementation by LAs of longer term flood and
  coastal risk management plans

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What action will the measures require?

• 188 Planning to adapt to Climate Change
• Local authority to become more resilient
• 5 stages- (i) process for assessing risks (ii)
  commitment to identify and manage risks across
  services and estates (iii) priority risks
  identified and incorporated into LA strategy, and
  LSP engaged (iv) comprehensive action plan and
  prioritised action (v) implement action plan,
  assess progress and review
• Good progress would be to move up one step per
  year
• 189 - Flood and Coastal management
• Flood and Coastal Risk management plans agreed
  (shoreline management plans catchment flood
  management plans)
• Action plans agreed and being implemented
• Target by 2010 would be min of 80 of actions
  completed