National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2021-2030
Category: Executive
Document Type: Plan
Role: Main
Spain's National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2021-2030.
The National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2021-2030 (PNACC 2021-2030) for Spain serves as the reference framework for coordinating public administrations in activities related to climate change impact assessment, vulnerability studies, and adaptation. This document replaces the previous plan (PNACC-1) which covered the period 2006-2020. The Plan's core objectives include facilitating and providing continuous assistance to all interested administrations and organisations, both public and private and at all levels, to evaluate climate change impacts in Spain within their specific sector or system. It aims to provide available information, tools, and assessment methods to promote participation among stakeholders, leading to the definition of optimal adaptation options. The Plan considers a wide scope of areas of work and socio-economic sectors for impact assessment, vulnerability studies, and adaptation. These include Human health, Water resources, Natural heritage, biodiversity and protected areas, Forestry, desertification, hunting and inland fisheries, Agriculture, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture and food, Coasts and marine environment, City, urban planning and building, Cultural heritage, Energy, Mobility and transport, Industry and services, Tourism, Financial system and insurance activity, Disaster risk reduction, Research and innovation, Education and society, and Peace, security and social cohesion. It also addresses interrelationships between these areas. The strategic components for adaptation action outlined in the Plan involve knowledge generation, integration into sectoral plans, programmes, and regulations, mobilisation of actors, and monitoring and evaluation. Guiding principles include social and territorial equity, leveraging science and knowledge, transversality and integration in public management, addressing unwanted effects, and promoting coordinated, transparent, and effective action. Transversal aspects such as territorial and social vulnerability, cross-border effects, gender mainstreaming, preventing maladaptation, and assessing costs and benefits are also considered. Based on the provided index, the Plan itself covers the period 2021-2030. The index does not list specific compliance dates for external entities or name specific underlying statutes beyond the Plan itself.
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INDEX INDEX LEGAL NOTICE: The contents of this publication may be reused when quoting the source and the date, if applicable, of the last update. PUBLISHED BY: ©: Ministry for the Ecological Transition ISBN: 978-84-18508-32-5 and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) Legal Deposit: M-29241-2020 Madrid 2020. NIPO: 665-20-071-9 https://www.miteco.gob.es/ Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz, 10 28003 Madrid. SPAIN COVER PHOTOS: MANIMALS S.L. - F. Cámara Orgaz - R. Anguita - J. M. Pérez de Ayala M. A. Montero Vaz - C. Valdecantos - ALVELAL - J. L. González Fototeca CENEAM General Administration of the State Publications Catalogue: https://cpage.mpr.gob.es NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN 2021 · 2030 INDEX Preamble: a new impetus for climate change adaptation 8 Executive summary 15 I - THE ADAPTATION SCENARIO 19 1. Climate change in Spain: impacts and risks 21 1.1. An unequivocal reality 21 1.2. Projected changes 24 1.3. Impacts and risks arising from climate change 26 2. Climate change adaptation policies 35 2.1. Preliminary concepts 35 2.2. International commitments 36 2.3. European adaptation policy 38 2.4. Spanish adaptation policy 41 II - THE NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN 2021 - 2030 3. The PNACC 2021-2030 definition process 44 3.1. Evaluation of the PNACC-1 44 3.2. The participatory process in the elaboration of the PNACC-2 45 4. Objectives of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2021 - 2030 47 5. Guiding principles 48 5.1. Social and territorial equity for a just future 48 5.2. Science, knowledge and society at the service of adaptation 49 5.3. Transversality and integration in public management 49 5.4. Addressing unwanted effects 50 5.5. Coordinated, transparent and effective action 50
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