Guide to the Integration of Climate Change Adaptation into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process
AIMED AT: Practitioners PURPOSE: To assist CARICOM and SPREP country practitioners with the integration of climate change adaptation considerations into the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Caribbean and South Pacific Region TECHNICAL AREA: Environmental Assessment, Climate change adaptation BASIC STRUCTURE: The Guide does not propose to establish a new or parallel EIA process but rather identifies a few simple steps to be taken when utilizing existing EIA processes and procedures. It states that the EIA process should: a) evaluate a project's potential environmental risks and impacts in its area of influence; b) identify and evaluate potential impacts from climate change on the project's area of influence; c) examine project alternatives; d) identify ways of improving project selection, siting, planning, design, and implementation by preventing, minimizing, mitigating, or compensating for adverse environmental impacts and anticipated adverse impacts from climate change, and enhancing positive impacts; and e) include the process of managing and adapting to adverse environmental impacts and anticipated adverse impacts from climate change throughout project implementation.
Guide to the Integration of Climate Change Adaptation into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process.pdf
