Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

1. Session 6 The German Adaptation Strategy Nele Bünner Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop Marriott Resort and Spa, Pattaya, Thailand, 17-20 February 2014

2. German Adaptation Strategy (DAS) National Policy Framework for adaptation to CC • Adopted by Federal Cabinet in 12/2008 • Sets out aims and principles • Presents state of knowledge on observed and projected climate changes and their impacts • Adaptation options on 15 fields of action General framework (no timeframe): • Risks will be progressively identified • Action needs identified • Appropriate adaptation objectives developed • Adaptation measures identified Review and update end of 2015 Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

3. Action Plan for Adaptation (APA) • Developed by two governmental bodies and through participatory dialogue with federal states, academia and CSOs • Adopted in August 2011 • Measures on national level: • Providing knowledge, informing and enabling action • Set framework for national policy • Activities implemented under national responsibility (impact monitoring, early warning) • International responsibility • Orientation for other actors • Overview on initiatives of federal states • Next step: Progress Report 2014 Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

4. Governance structure of German adaptation process Federal MinistryfortheEnvironment Federal Environment Agency/KomPass Research Institutes DAS- process Working group of all federal ministries EU - CHM:Adaptation Steering Group (+ WGs) Stakeholder(Business, NGO) Conference of the federal states Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

5. Implementation andBudgeting Broad range of actors involved and responsible for implementation • Governmental and non-governmental actors • National and federal level Measures at the national level: • Implemented and funded by government (ministries) • Cooperation with other actors Measures at the federal and local level: • Implemented by communities, federal states, NGOs, companies, intercommunal and interregional alliances etc. • Partly financial support from government (promotion schemes) Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

6. Providing knowledge and enabling action • Depending on the location and region, effects of CC and potential opportunities for action, can vary greatly • Thus, many adaptation measures must be planned and implemented on the local level • The different leaders responsible for such measures could potentially learn a great deal from each other • → Key component of the German government’s AAP: Database that presents adaptation measures which were implemented or are currently underway, esp. projects on local and regional level Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

7. Database “Tatenbank” • Implemented adaptation measures • Set up by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), published December 2010 • Main target groups: • Municipalities, regional administrations • Companies for public services • Non-governmental institutions • Aims: • Promoting networks between actors • Learning from realized projects • Source for identifying good practice Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

8. Making good-practise visible • Competition “Adaption Pioneers Wanted!” combined with start of database • Over 60 submissions → 5 winnerschosen • Assessment criteria: • Effectiveness and cost-benefit ration • Co-benefits • Stakeholder participation und acceptance • Feasibility and transferability • No financial reward, but public award ceremony, good publicity, short PR film • Aim: establish the database as a comprehensive up-to data reference for adaptation activities in Germany Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

9. Examples for Good-Practice Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

10. Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning Initial situation: • City situated in a basin → forced to think about how fresh air can be ensured even in unfavorable weather conditions • Increasingly hot summers have also led the city to counteract with increased planning → City introduced a package of measures that are mostly borne by the city’s own funds Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

11. Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning • Aim of the measures:Incorporating urban climatic factors into planning • Stakeholders: Environmental Agency (initiator), all institutions involved in urban planning in the region of Stuttgart Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

12. Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning Achievements: • Preservation and expansion of green areas and assurance of fresh air corridors and cold air producing areas • 300.000 square kilometers of green roofs created, tramlines planted with grass and flowers Model for internal development: • Minimum standards for the provision and design of green areas, climate-friendly house construction (e.g. heat insulation), limitation of the degree of soil sealing in city → Software tool: record of all gap sites and waste land in database → Existing real estate used to cover demand for building land, avoiding expansion of sealed area Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

13. Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning Challenges: • Difficult to acquire open space: building land is scarce in the city and the price of land is high • Intensive negotiations were required to ensure that the significance of the concerned areas for the urban climate is taken into account → Lessons learnt will help other cities – not least when it comes to matching ambitious concepts with the daily troubles and conflicts of urban planning Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

14. Northern Germany: Training module on ACC for farmers • Identify starting points where the topic CC adaptation can be sustainably communicated in the sector • Promising approach: integrating the idea of CC in the educational training of young people who become farmers • Issue of CC adaptation had not sufficiently been taken into account in the apprenticeship Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

15. Northern Germany: Training module on ACC • Aim:developing an interactive training module that raises the trainees’ awareness of risks and opportunities related to climate change and shows them possibilities for action • Stakeholders: farmers, instructors in the training schools, the chamber of agriculture • Forms of participation: joint workshops of a working group Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

16. Northern Germany: Training module on ACC Achievements • Training module: combination of theoretical knowledge transfer and project work → knowledge immediately translated into practice • Farmers as instructors become contact persons and propagatorsfor the idea of climate change adaptation • Developed modules can be used in training of farmers in all regions in Germany and be adapted where necessary(e.g. for winegrowing) Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

17. Northern Germany: Training module on ACC Challenges: • Training module on ACC no compulsory element in training of farmers → topic treated as less important • After the workshops no advanced training to better qualify and update the farmers as instructors → major deficit of the approach: initial awareness raising and training not sufficient • During practical application, idea of climate protection much more emphasized than adaptation → increase awareness that climate protection + adaptation to unavoidable impacts of CC are necessary Session6 The German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

18. Results of the “Tatenbank” • Numerous adaptation measures have been successfully implemented despite challenges • Database “Tatenbank”: a start in recording implemented measures in order to learn from experience www.tatenbank.anpassung.net Session6 Implementing the German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

19. Conclusion • Knowledge baseisconstantlyexpanding • DAS is continuously developed and improved to ensure that this new knowledge is incorporated into the political framework • Measures in DAS will be evaluated by the end of 2014 (evaluation process) • Indicator-based monitoring • Nation-wide and cross-sectoral vulnerability assessment Session6 Implementing the German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

20. Thank you for your interest! Contact: Nele Bünner, nele.buenner@giz.de or Dr Till Below, till.below@giz.de This presentation is based on material kindly provided by the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany. Contact: Petra Mahrenholzpetra.mahrenholz@uba.de Session 6 Indicator-based Monitoring for the German Adaptation Strategy Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop