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Adaptation to Climate Change and Strategic Environmental Assessment

AIMED AT: SEA practitioners PURPOSE: The objective of this report is to make an example if Strategic Environmental Assessment is a useful tool to facilitate decision- making in the light of climate change GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: EU TECHNICAL AREA: To integrate climate change in SEA BASIC STRUCTURE: This report looks at possible entry points in the Strategic Environmental Assessment process to incorporate climate change impacts and adaptation considerations, from the screening phase that precedes the initiation of the Strategic Environmental Assessment, to the scoping and the environmental report, detailed assessment and implementation stages. Furthermore the report assesses if the integration of climate change is already a commonly used practice in the countries of North-West Europe and if it is recommended at international and European level.It concludes that Strategic Environmental Assessment can be a useful tool to address the problems and promote actions on adaptation to climate change into the planning process as well as to highlight possible adaptation conflicts with other existing regional/national plans and programmes.

01 jan. 2016

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