06/12/ CYPADAPT “Development of a national strategy for adaptation to climate change adverse impacts in Cyprus “ Professor Maria Loizidou National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

06/12/  Area of implementation: Cyprus  Project Budget: 1,358, €  EC Funding: € (49,9% of Total Budget)  Duration: 31 months  Start date: 01/09/2011  End date:31/03/2014 CYPADAPT: In Brief

06/12/ CYPADAPT: Partners Department of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of Cyprus (Project Coordinator) National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) National Observatory of Athens (NOA)

06/12/ “ to strengthen and increase Cyprus adaptive capacity to climate change impacts through the development of a National Adaptation Strategy (NAS) ” CYPADAPT: Main aim

06/12/ CYPADAPT: Actions  ACTION 1: Preparatory actions (completed)  ACTION 2: Review of existing national adaptation plans worldwide and assessment of relative measures implemented in Cyprus (completed)  ACTION 3: Prediction of future changes and responses due to climate change in Cyprus (in progress)  ACTION 4: Development of a multi-criteria analysis tool for the elaboration of the adaptation plan for Cyprus (not started yet)  ACTION 5: Elaboration of a National Adaptation Plan for Cyprus (not started yet)

06/12/ CYPADAPT: Actions (2)  ACTION 6: Dissemination Activities (in progress)  ACTION 7: Management and Reporting to the EC (in progress)  ACTION 8: Networking with other projects (in progress)  ACTION 9: Monitoring and Evaluation of the project progress (in progress)  ACTION 10: After-LIFE Communication plan (not started yet)

06/12/ CYPADAPT: Timetable

06/12/ Assessing current climate changes and risks Assessing current socio-economic conditions Current impact and vulnerability assessment Projecting future climate changes and risks Projecting future socio-economic conditions Future impact and vulnerability assessment Formulation of an adaptation strategy Implementation Monitoring Assessing adaptive capacity CYPADAPT: Methodology

06/12/ Assessing current climate changes and risks Assessing current socio-economic conditions Current impact and vulnerability assessment Projecting future climate changes and risks Projecting future socio-economic conditions Future impact and vulnerability assessment Formulation of an adaptation strategy Implementation Monitoring Assessing adaptive capacity CompletedIn Progress CYPADAPT: Methodology (2)

06/12/ Assessing current climate changes and risks Assessing current socio-economic conditions Current impact and vulnerability assessment Projecting future climate changes and risks Projecting future socio-economic conditions Future impact and vulnerability assessment Formulation of an adaptation strategy Implementation Monitoring Assessing adaptive capacity CYPADAPT: Methodology (3) CompletedIn Progress Engaging stakeholders

06/12/2012 Climate change adaptation policy areas

06/12/ Available at: 14 deliverables so far…

06/12/ Review on existing NAS Focus on Mediterranean countries

06/12/  Finland  France  Spain  Malta  Tunisia Focus on Mediterranean countries

06/12/ Why Finland ? Finland was the first country to adopt a national adaptation strategy (2005). The CYPADAPT team visited Finland (February 2012) and came in contact with the team that worked on the Finnish NAS and has shared valuable information and experience (success stories, lessons learned)

06/12/ Monitoring – evaluation methodology

06/12/ Levels of adaptation to climate change: case-study Finland

06/12/ Levels of adaption by sector

06/12/ Next steps  After the vulnerability of Cyprus to climate change has been analyzed and the alternative adaptation options applied worldwide have been recorded, the adaptation options shall be prioritized  A multi-criteria analysis (MCA) tool will be developed for the prioritization of the adaptation measures.  The structure of the MCA tool will be based on objectives, alternative measures/options/interventions, criteria (or attributes), scores that measure or value the performance of each adaptation option against the criteria, and weights (applied to criteria).

06/12/ Next steps (2)  A draft adaptation plan will be published in an interactive blog in order for the plan to be able to be reviewed by the public for a period of two (2) months. All recommendations will receive full consideration and the final revised plan, will then be submitted for endorsement to the Parliament and then published to the public.  A set of indicators will be established for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the Cypriot National Adaptation Strategy that will be developed in the context of CYPADAPT project

06/12/ Conference invitation  Please be informed that in the context of the CYPADAPT project an International Conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus in March  Stay tuned in for more information!