Suggestion for a Policy Mix for an Updated Adaptation Action Plan

Background and Goals

The aim of the project was to develop empirically-based recommendations for updates to the 2011 Adaptation Action Plan (APA). With this objective as a starting point, the project contained the following primary areas of work:

  • The compilation of measures and instruments for climate change adaptation.
  • The development of a multi-criteria evaluation and prioritisation tool for adaptation measures and instruments, including above all the consolidation and operationalisation of specific criteria; in particular, existing cost estimations for adaptation measures were complemented by a newly developed method tailored to assessing the administrative costs for implementing policy instruments for adaptation to climate change.
  • Application of the evaluation tool to the suggestions for adaptation measures and instruments developed within the project.
  • Accompanying analyses of the framework conditions for the formulation and implementation of adaptation measures and instruments.

Content time

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Research area/region

Country
  • Germany

Steps in the process of adaptation to climate change

Step 1: Understand and describe climate change

Time horizon
  • short term = next year’s / decades

Step 3: Develop and compare measures

Measures and/or strategies 

yes

More time information and explanations 

In accordance with the „Urgency“ criterion, the project concentrated on measures effective by 2030 if implemented.

Conflicts / synergies / sustainability 

For measures and instruments, the evaluation method includes a check for interactions with other measures or instruments, respectively: i.e. whether they have synergies, substitute each other or have adverse effects on each other.

Sustainability aspects are accounted for, in particular, under the criterion of “Synergies and con-flicts with other policy fields” (with a focus on environmental objectives for measures, and for instruments, on economic and social objectives).

Participants

Funding / Financing 

German Environment Agency
Umweltforschungsplan

Project management 

Ecologic Institute

Cooperation/Partners 

INFRAS

Contact

Ecologic Institut
Pfalzburger Straße 43-44
10717 Berlin

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