Strategic Environmental Assessment and Climate Change: Guidance for Practitioners
AIMED AT: SEA practitioners PURPOSE: This leaflet explains how climate change issues can be considered in strategic environmental assessment (SEA), with particular reference to the requirements of European SEA Directive GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: EU TECHNICAL AREA: Climate change, SEA BASIC STRUCTURE: The SEA Directive requires authorities to assess the likely significant effects of their plans and programmes on "the environment, including on issues such as biodiversity, population, human health, fauna, flora, soil, water, air, climatic factors, material assets, cultural heritage including architectural and archaeological heritage, landscape and the interrelationship between the above factors". The document states that climate change needs to be considered at various stages of the SEA process.
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Climate Change: Guidance for Practitioners.pdf
