- 1. Adaptation to Climate Change mainstreaming into sector
policies of the Baltic Sea Region 29.04.2014 Warsaw, Poland
CBSS-Baltic 21 Roundtable Climate Change Adaptation in the Baltic
Sea Region Valdur Lahtvee, SEI Tallinn Centre
www.sei-international.org
2. Latest milestones of adaptation policy for Baltic Sea Region
(BSR) European climate adaptation platform (Climate- ADAPT)
launched in March 2012; EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change
adopted in April 2013; BaltAdapt Project: Baltic Sea commenced in
September 2013,with Baltadapt Strategy for adaptation to climate
change in the BSR and Action Plan IPCCC WGII Report on Impacts,
Adaptation and Vulnerability released in March 31st, 2013
[email protected] 3. IPCC WGII Report Climate Change
2014:Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability The report by IPCC
Working Group II brings together the latest knowledge on the
impacts of climate change, the vulnerability and exposure of humans
and the natural world to these impacts, and adaptation to climate
change. The report is the second of four reports that together will
form the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. The first report, on the
physical science basis of climate change, was finalized last
September. [email protected] 4. SEI Contribution to the IPCC
AR5 WGII Report Dr. Richard Klein, CLA ch 16: Adaptation
opportunities, constraints and limits Dr. Lisa Schipper, LA ch 21:
Regional context Number of authors: 309 Number of countries
represented: 70 [email protected] 5. IPCC AR5 WGII: Scenarios
for Global Temperature Change [email protected] 6. Climate
Risks Scenarios 2014 [email protected] 7. Climate Risks
Scenarios 2001 (AR3) [email protected] 8. Risks and adaptation
potential:Europe [email protected] 9. Key messages from AR5
[email protected] Climate change over the 21st century is
projected to increase displacement of people (medium evidence, high
agreement). Climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent
conflicts in the form of civil war and inter- group violence by
amplifying well-documented drivers of these conflicts such as
poverty and economic shocks (medium confidence). 10. Key messages
from AR5 [email protected] The impacts of climate change on
the critical infrastructure and territorial integrity of many
states are expected to influence national security policies (medium
evidence, medium agreement). Throughout the 21st century,
climate-change impacts are projected to slow down economic growth,
make poverty reduction more difficult, further erode food security,
and prolong existing and create new poverty traps, the latter
particularly in urban areas and emerging hotspots of hunger (medium
confidence). 11. Key messages from AR5 [email protected]
Adaptation is place and context specific, with no single approach
for reducing risks appropriate across all settings (high
confidence). A first step towards adaptation to future climate
change is reducing vulnerability and exposure to present climate
variability (high confidence). 12. Key messages from AR5
[email protected] Poor planning, overemphasizing short-term
outcomes, or failing to sufficiently anticipate consequences can
result in maladaptation (medium evidence, high agreement). Greater
rates and magnitude of climate change increase the likelihood of
exceeding adaptation limits (high confidence). 13. Mainstreaming CC
Adaptation [email protected] WHY The latest information from
EU research estimates that failure to adapt to climate change will
cost 100bn a year in 2020, increasing to 250bn in 2050 Each euro
spent on flood protection could save six euros in damage costs.
Floods caused direct economic losses of more than 90 billion
between 1980 and 2011 HOW Mainstreaming means to integrate
adaptation objectives, strategies, policies, measures or operations
such that they become part of the national and regional development
policies, processes and budget at all levels and stages. 14.
Mainstreaming CC Adaptation [email protected] STEPS TO
CONSIDER - raise the understanding of the CC and adaptation, -
identify how climate change will affect specific areas, -inform
about the essential elements with regard to climate change as well
as sustainable development, -plan relevant actions for increased
resilience -support knowledge transfer from the global to the local
level and trans-nationally, -enhance capacities to deal with the
issue of climate change in a cooperative, integrated and
sustainable manner -always consider climate resilience in mind when
planning and/or investing 15. National Adaptation Strategies 2013
[email protected] National adaptation strategies in16 of 33
EEA countries: (AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, HU, IE, LT, MT, NL,
PT, SE, UK) 16. BaltAdapt Baltadapt project developed a
transnational climate change adaptation strategy for the Baltic Sea
Region, which focuses on the sea and the coastline. The Strategy
and its accompanying Action Plan were officially launched and
presented during the Baltadapt Conference "Adaptation to Climate
Change in the Baltic Sea Region" in Riga, Latvia, 3-4 September
2013 http://www.baltadapt.eu/index.php?option=com_
content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=224
[email protected] 17. BalticClimate The BalticClimate toolkit
is an empowering knowledge transfer instrument for actors on the
local and regional level who are not necessarily the experts on
climate change, but who have an important role to play in the
preparation, financing and decision making related to the
implementation of climate change measures: policy makers, spatial
planners and business people. Toolkit is available in 6 languages:
ENG, BYL, DEN, GER, EST, LAT, LIT, NOR, POL, RUS, FIN, SWE
http://www.toolkit.balticclimate.org/en/home [email protected]
18. Mainstreaming climate adaptation in ESI Funds 2014-2020
Agreement between MS to allocate 20% of financing of climate
related activities incl. adaptation Implementation not as good as
was expected e.g. Estonia declared in its revised OP for ESI Funds
that 17, 72% of finances are allocated for climate action
[email protected] 19. Useful sources for climate change
adaptation related information
http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/transnational-
regions/baltic-sea/adaptation-actions
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/brief/eu/index_ en.htm
http://www.baltadapt.eu/ http://mayors-adapt.eu/
http://www.toolkit.balticclimate.org/ http://www.baltex-
research.eu/ecosupport/dss/index.html [email protected] 20.
SEI climate change adaptation global knowledge sharing platform
weADAPT http://weadapt.org/ Thematic areas: Adaptation Decision
Making Climate Adaptation Training Communicating Climate Risk
Economics of adaptation Ecosystem-based Adaptation Forests and
Climate Change National Adaptation Planning Synergies between
adaptation and mitigation Transforming Governance Urban adaptation
to climate change Using Climate Information Vulnerability
[email protected]