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Climate Change Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region –

showcasing multilevel governance in practice

HELCOM Workshop on Baltic Sea Region Climate Change and its implications

Warnemuende 5-6 February 2013

C.A. Eklund1, M. Nachtigall2, L. Andersson1

(1SMHI, 2CBSS)

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Outline General presentation of BALTADAPT project The European context Climate change adaptation strategy for the Baltic Sea region How to facilitate cooperation with HELCOM?

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Background

The Baltic Sea and its coastlines face challenges due to climate change... ...it is time to adapt now!

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Baltadapt Objective

Baltadapt‘s objective is to develop a Baltic Sea Region wide

climate change adaptation strategy.

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Project passport

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Project duration: October 2010–December 2013

Project budget: ERDF Co-Finance: € 2,12 m Partners‘ contribution: € 0,74 m Total Budget: € 2,86 m

Funding programme: Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007–2013

Baltadapt is a fully fledged Baltic21 Lighthouse Project.

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Baltadapt partnership

The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)/Baltic 21

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; LP)

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)

University of Tartu, Estonian Marine Institute (EMI)

University of Latvia (LU)

Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF), Lithuania

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)

National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus, University (NERI)

Associated partner: PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)

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Baltadapt activities (1/2)

• Identify and review current knowledge on climate change with special focus on: Regional climate information; The Baltic Sea ecosystem; The coastal zone;

• Develop an information portal providing structured access to all available information on climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region

• Develop a macro-regional climate change adaptation

strategy forBaltic Sea region in close consultation with local and regional stakeholders and a policy forum for climate change adaptation

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Baltadapt activities (2/2)

• Identify necessary actions to be included in an action plan for implementing the strategy

• Identify suitable funding

mechanisms for financing the actions laid out in the action plan

• Contribute to EU policy papers

and the programming process of national and transnational programmes

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Baltadapt Climate Info

Baltadapt Climate Info – The Baltic Sea in a future climate (WP 4, Develop the knowledge base) #1 Air temperature #2 Precipitation #3 Wind #4 Sea level #5 Oxygen content #6 Salinity #7 Water temperature #8 Biodiversity and habitats #9 Biological production #10 Wind-generated waves #11 River discharge #12 Nutrient loads #13 Eutrophication #14 Sea ice Available at www.baltadapt.eu

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Providing an evidence base

Expert work on regional climate information

Expert work on changes in the Baltic Sea ecosystem

due to climate change

Expert work on climate change impacts on the

coastal zone

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Decision makers

Stakeholders

Baltic Sea Region wide climate change

adaptation strategy

Action Plan for adapting the Baltic Sea Region to

climate change

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EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR)

Revised version to be adopted by the end of February 2013; Recognize climate change adaptation as a horizontal action; Objectives: Save the Sea Connect the Region Increase Prosperity and

Competiveness of the region Sub-objective: climate change adaptation

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EU Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

To be launched in April 2013 EU Climate Change Adaptation Portal www.climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu

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Strategy for Baltic Sea Region Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation

Strengthen co-operation and information sharing across the region through mainstreaming climate adaptation as a horizontal action in the European Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR)

Based on facilitating climate adaptions within existing

organizations and networks, as well as promoting new forms of transnational cooperation between authorities and the private sector on local, regional, national and transnational levels.

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Goals

Raise awareness of the need for actions at all levels; Provide robust policy relevant research-based knowledge

on the impacts and vulnerabilities to climate change, including handling of uncertainties, costs and benefits;

Ensue platforms for a policy/stakeholder-science dialogue; Review policies in the light of climate adaptation

mainstreaming; Ensure common development of polices for funding of

climate adaptation; Make the BSR a model region for macro-regional approach

to climate change;

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A multi-level governance issue

Effects & impacts of climate change are local and regional in

their nature

Can be specific to a locality and/or have a “global” dimension

Many types of actors involved on various government levels (public, private, civil society…)

Demands both top-down and bottom-up approaches… even inter-sectoral

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Towards a macro-regional climate change adaptation strategy

EU Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Baltadapt Policy Forum

High level policy makers/ representatives from relevant national ministries

The European Commission International and regional governmental and

non-governmental organizations Academic institutions Local, regional city and sector networks in

the field of climate change and adaptation from across the BSR

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Policy Forum concept

Jointly discuss and work on the drafts of Baltic Sea Region climate change adaptation strategy, including content and structure

Elaborating on a process on how to further develop and

implement the strategy document after end of Baltadapt by member states

Not another new working group, but building on existing

political network structures

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Baltadapt Policy Fora

24 April 2012, Berlin, DE

10 – 11 December 2012, Stockholm, SE

29 – 30 May 2013, Tallinn, EE

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Stakeholder dialogues

Consultation process among relevant policy makers and stakeholders;

To achieve local expert/ practitioners' input to the Baltic Sea

region’s macro-regional climate change adaptation strategy

To capture the heterogeneity in local/regional realities that need to be acknowledged

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Stakeholder Dialogues (1)

Costal tourism “Climate Change and Tourism – responding to Baltic Sea wide challenges” 2-3 May 2012, Warnemünde, Germany

Agriculture Macro-regional Workshop “Climate Change and Agriculture – Responding to Baltic Sea wide challenges” 30-31 May 2012, Norrköping ,Sweden

Infrastructure (costal zone/ports) Biodiversity From 2-nd Policy Forum, Dec. 2012: Civil Protection

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Stakeholder Dialogues (2)

“Consultation phase” during spring 2013: HELCOM Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) VASAB NORD-STAR (Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research) Nordregio (Nordic Center for Spatial Development) Other BSR-projects: BalticClimate; BaltCica project DG Regio/DG Clima etc

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How to facilitate cooperation with HELCOM?

What research, or integration of research from different fields need to be promoted to facilitate the work of HELCOM?

What is HELCOM:s “wish list” when it comes to (web-based and “IRL”) platforms for policy-science dialogues? What exists now and how could it be improved?

What policies does HELCOM identify to be in need of climate adaptation mainstreaming?

What needs can HELCOM identify when it comes to funding of climate adaptation Including also indirect actions, related to the possibility to reach

“climate adaptation proofed” agreements

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Final BALTADAPT Conference “Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic

Sea Region”

Riga, Latvia, 3-4 September 2013

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EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Region Horizontal Action “ Sustainable Development“

www.cbss.org/Environment/baltic-21

Climate Change Sustainable Urban & Rural Development Sustainable Consumption and Production Innovation and education for Sustainable Development

CBSS Strategy for Sustainable Development 2010 - 2015

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Thank you for your attention!