National Climate Change
Adaptation Strategy and
Action Plan
Inception Workshop
Sofia, 1 March 2017
Robert Bakx
Project Component 3
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
EU-countries’ experience
AUSTRIA (1)
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Plan adaptation as (cyclical) process along the policy cycle
and make use of EU/UN guidance
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Take care to integrate the adaptation process
 vertically (policy scales from local to supranational);
 horizontally (across partaking/impacted) sectors; and
 transdisciplinary (policy makers, practitioners, companies,
affected people, multi-disciplinary research teams).
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Take care for awareness raising in your country, collaborate
closely with the media and aim at roadshows and public
consultations
Source: Markus Leitner, UBA, Austria
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
EU-countries’ experience
AUSTRIA (2)
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Once the adaptation process gets started, seek for
‘windows of opportunity’ to mainstream adaptation in
other policy domains; look for synergies; make sure the
process does not become a singular/stand-alone/one-shot
exercise
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Aim at an integrative process and involve all relevant
institutions and players. Note that this can complicate the
process and may lead to some compromises, but it is
essential for political commitment for the NAS
Source: Markus Leitner, UBA, Austria
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
EU-countries’ experience
ITALY
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Institutional Coordinator: Ministry of Environment, Land
and Sea
Technical panel (100 scientists) and institutional panel
(Ministries, regional and municipal authorities)
Participative process: transparency, sharing with national
stakeholders (civil society, scientific community, private
sector)
Desk study of scientific literature, identification of sectors,
climate impacts per sector, vulnerability per sector,
estimate of cost and inaction per sector
Source: Sergio Castellari, CMCC, Italy
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
EU-countries’ experience
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Bulgaria’s National CC
Adaptation Strategy and
Action Plan (NAS + AP)
• Learn from EU countries’ experience
• Structure: use EU/UN guidance  Expert
Council for CC discussion  conclusion by
Ministry of Environment and Water
• Timing: Prepare as of May 2017; final draft by
March 2018
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Bulgaria’s NAS + AP
EU Guidance (1)
Strategy:
- General aim of adaptation and strategic direction;
- Approach chosen to develop the strategy, including
cooperation with authorities and other stakeholders (e.g.,
interest groups, NGOs, private sector);
- Knowledge base and good practices (if explored), including
a gap analysis;
- Main concerns caused by climate change and other
influencing factors;
- Uncertainties in climate change, future developments and
adaptation;
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Bulgaria’s NAS + AP
EU Guidance (2)
Strategy:
- Objectives for adaptation (for selected policy areas/sectors
and/or themes);
- Framework for action, including:
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Provision for preparing an action plan and/or sectoral
plans
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Setting a timeframe for developing concrete actions
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Determining responsibilities and resources needed
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Criteria for exploring, assessing and selecting
adaptation options
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Bulgaria’s NAS + AP
EU Guidance (3)
Strategy:
- Coordination and synergies between national and subnational as well as sectoral (e.g., disaster risk prevention
and management plans Member States are developing)
and trans-boundary adaptation responses;
- Activities for awareness raising, communication on
adaptation and capacity building;
- System and timeframe for revision of strategy, including
provisions for monitoring and evaluation;
- Outlook.
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Bulgaria’s NAS + AP
EU Guidance (1)
Action Plan:
- Preferred adaptation options and ways for
implementation (mainstreaming into existing instruments
and/or creating new instruments) including opportunities
and synergies;
- Roles and responsibilities, explicitly considering the need
for coordination between authorities at all levels;
- Detailed timetable for implementation and provisions for
revision;
- Estimation of human and financial resources needed;
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Bulgaria’s NAS + AP
EU Guidance (2)
Action Plan:
- Funding possibilities;
- Open research questions and ways to close knowledge
gaps;
- Potential barriers to action and mechanisms to overcome
these;
- Mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the implementation
success.
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Outlook on implementation
How smooth do you expect implementation will
be of an eventually approved Action Plan and, in
case there are bottle-necks, what may be good
approaches to overcome these?
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan
Thank you for your attention!
Advisory Services on a National Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy and Action Plan