Guro Andersen Senior adviser, information Dept. of Local and Regional Risk Management Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning National Adaptation Platforms’ Expert meeting Norway: klimatilpasning.no

National Programme 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 on climate adaptation across sectors and administrative level –Assist information exchange between sectors and administrative levels –Contribute with advice and guidance to local and regional planners, for example through the web-portal Web portal published in March 2009

Target groups Target group analysis Local and regional planners County administrators Local and regional politicians Three needs were pointed out: Information on effects of climate change and adaptation Good practices on adaptation Tools to integrate adaptation in planning

From focusing on climate projections only, to integrating climate change into planning Adaptation to current climate/ disaster risk reduction Avoid new vulnerability Reduce vulnerability Preparedness for events Adaptation to future climate, both gradual changes and climate related hazards Integrate into planning

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 A need to ‘interpret’ the research language and Climate Projections The National Platform

Troms Project – Climate Service Centre The purpose: Assist the municipalities with mapping, organizing and finding the data needed Provide more detailed knowledge to the Climate Service Centre, helping them to improve their products and service Develop a Climate profile for each of the four participating municipalities, using this method to generate similar Clilmate profiles for all Norwegian municipalities Questions asked: What kind of data is needed on different levels in planning? What kind of data is available, and what is not? Is reliable data available at all? How to deal with lack of necessary data? 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

18% ++ 11,5% 3,1% 4,5% 3,4% 3,1% 3,3% 4,2% 1,1% 3,8% 1,7% 1,5% 1% Analysis of the website - purpose: How the users navigate on the site Hits: News (surprising): 18% Guide : 11,5% County information: 5,3% Projections in a interactive map (temperature and precipitation in 2050 and 2100): 4,5% Confusion about the sender (Ministry of Environment or DSB) Contact: 3,8% an to find out the users mobility on the site 26% quit

Newsletter Pop-up Links to other relevant articles (score over 80%) Good readability (score over 70%) Language (score 63%)

Plans for coming years 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