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National Adaptation Platforms ’ Expert meeting Norway : klimatilpasning.no. Guro Andersen Senior adviser, information Dept. of Local and Regional Risk Management Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning.
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National AdaptationPlatforms’ Expertmeeting Norway: klimatilpasning.no Guro Andersen Senior adviser, information Dept. of Local and Regional Risk Management Directorate for CivilProtection and Emergency Planning
A national coordination initiative, led by the Ministry of Environment • An executive secretariat for the national coordination effort, is placed within the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB): • Provide status onclimateadaptationacrosssectors and administrative level • Assistinformationexchangebetweensectors and administrative levels • Contributewithadvice and guidance to local and regional planners, for examplethroughtheweb-portal • Web portal publishedin March 2009 National Programme
Target groups • Target groupanalysis • Local and regional planners • County administrators • Local and regional politicians • Three needswerepointedout: • Informationoneffectsofclimatechange and adaptation • Goodpracticesonadaptation • Tools to integrateadaptation in planning
From focusingonclimateprojectionsonly, to integratingclimatechange into planning Adaptation to currentclimate/ disaster risk reduction • Avoidnewvulnerability • Reducevulnerability • Preparedness for events Adaptation to futureclimate, both gradual changes and climaterelatedhazards Integrate into planning
The National Platform A need to ‘interpret’ the research language and Climate Projections • A need to ‘translate’ the research language and Climate Projections • Guide: Climate Change Adaptation: • - Describes how to integrate climate • projections in different levels of planning – from general planning to zoning plans, RVA’s etc • Examples of such planning
Troms Project – Climate Service Centre • CSC: - Norwegian Meteorological Institute • - The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research • - The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate • Project Leader: The County Governor in Troms • 4 Municipalities in Troms participate • DSB - economic contribution and participation • The purpose: • Assistthemunicipalitieswithmapping, organizing and findingthe data needed • Provide more detailedknowledge to theClimate Service Centre, helpingthem to improvetheirproducts and service • Develop a Climateprofile for eachofthefourparticipatingmunicipalities, usingthismethod to generatesimilarClilmateprofiles for all Norwegianmunicipalities • Questionsasked: • Whatkindof data is neededondifferentlevels in planning? • Whatkindof data is available, and what is not? • Is reliable data available at all? • How to dealwithlackofnecessary data?
3,8% 3,3% Analysisofthewebsite - purpose: Howthe users navigate on the site 26% quit 3,1% 4,5% 11,5% • Hits: • News (surprising): 18% • Guide : 11,5% • Countyinformation: 5,3% • Projections in a interactivemap (temperature and precipitation in 2050 and 2100): 4,5% • Confusionaboutthe sender (MinistryofEnvironment or DSB) • Contact: 3,8% • an to find out the users mobility on the site 4,2% 18% ++ 1,7% 1% 1,1% 1,5% 3,1% 3,4%
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The Norwegian Government recently presented Norway’s White paper on Climate Change Adaptation • Current debate about which sector agency to appoint as the national focal point for climate adaptation • Web development put ‘on ice’ until decision is made • No technological development since 2010 • The analysis on the web site: • can hopefully be used for the next generation web • show the need for developing the web site also for new users Plans for comingyears