1. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Integrated Coastal Management and Maritime Spatial Planning in the context of Climate Change adaptation
Background document
Maria Berglund and Thomas Dworak
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

2. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Structure
Policy Context
EU strategy on adaptation to climate change and CSWD on adaptation in coastal areas
Brief introduction to the Project
Background document
Aim
Structure
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

3. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
EU Adaptation policy
The EU Adaptation Strategy focuses on three key objectives:
Promoting action by Member States (encourage all Member States to adopt comprehensive adaptation strategies)
'Climate-proofing' action at EU level
Better informed decision-making by addressing gaps in knowledge about adaptation
Adaptation policy in coastal zones (Com Staff Working Doc)
Better informed decision-making by linking existing databases, e.g. OURCOAST, EMODnet, WIISE-Marine and Climate Adapt
Increasing the resilience of the EU territory by developing guidance documents, e.g. on best adaptation practices in costal and marine areas
Increasing the resilience of key vulnerable sectors through EU sector mechanisms and including the private sector
Strategy encourages actions like promoting NAS, bridging gap in knowledge, focussing on mainstreaming at local level, further developing CLIMATE-ADAPT etc
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

4. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Project
Objective: Provide up to date and well-targeted information aiming to increase, share and disseminate Member States' knowledge about Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) and the linkages with Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in a context of climate change adaptation (CCA) in coastal areas.
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

5. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Background document
Aims
Stimulate the on-going discussions on ICM and MSP from an adaptation to climate change perspective
Provides entry points for climate change adaptation aspects along the policy cycle of ICM and MSP
Where possible, it provides practical ‘lessons’ learned from Members States (MS) or pilot projects .
Provides a broad picture of how MS can undertake steps to design or improve ICM strategies or MSPs
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

6. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Background document
What it doesn’t!
It does not deal with sector specific aspects or which measures are necessary to implement and to address specific ICM/MSP issues.
It is not a compliance tool and does not ensure legal compliance with any EU directives or regulations.
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

7. Step 1: Establishing the legal framework and administrative authority
Step 2: Prepare the groundwork
Step 3: Stakeholder Involvement
Step 4: Developing the Plan
Step 5: Plan Implementation
Step 6: Monitoring and Evaluation
Step 7: Planning for next phase
Strategy/Plan

8. Structure of each chapter
What is this step about?
How to achieve this step?
Who needs to be involved/mobilised
Where to find additional information?
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

9. Step 1 Establish a legal framework and administrative authority
Task 1: Establish a legal framework – to give legal authority to develop a strategy or plan
Task 2: Establish an administrative authority – to determine who is responsible to develop the strategy or plan
Analysing existing framework with regard to climate change adaptation
Linking legislation to existing, if any, Adaptation Strategies
Including Climate experts within Authorities tasked with ICM and MSP
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

10. Step 2 Prepare the groundwork
Task 1: Define boundaries and timeframe – to delineate spatial and temporally the borders of the strategy/plan
Task 2: Define principles and set the vision – the establish an overarching framework on what needs to be achieved
Task 3: Define the baseline and future scenarios – to understand the current state and potential future of coastal and marine areas in the context of climate change in order to focus efforts
Task 4: Define operational objectives - to be able to measure and assess results
Shifting boundaries due to climate change
Implications of future scenarios on human activities on land and sea
Including CCA principles
Including CCA objectives
Climate data
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

11. Step 3 Stakeholder Involvement
Task 1: Identify Relevant Stakeholders – to understand which actors to involve
Task 2: Carry out stakeholder consultations – to include stakeholder viewpoints at each planning stage
Identify the people most affected by climate change
Identify all future stakeholders in light of future climate change
Working with stakeholders on future scenarios on land and sea taking into account climate change and adaptation needs
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

12. Step 4 Develop the Strategy and/or Plan
Task 1: Develop the plan to allocate economic activities – to identify how to zone different coastal and marine uses
Task 2: Identify and select management options and measures – to achieve the defined objectives
Task 3: Obtain funding – to ensure management options and measures can be carried out
Task 4: Formalize and Approve the strategies and plans – to bring together all the previous steps and summarize into a document and carry out an impact assessment of activities
Anticipatory or Dynamic Zoning
EU funding available for adaptation work
Types of CCA measures
Criteria for selecting measures
Tools on how to include CCA in assessing the final plans
Including CCA in criteria for funding projects
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

13. Step 5 Implement and enforce
Task 1: Implement the strategy or plan – carry out the intended management options and measures
Task 2: Ensure compliance
Task 3: Enforce the strategy or plan
How implementing bodies can support implementation of CCA activities under ICM and MSP
Tailoring compliance provisions to climate change adaptation objectives
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

14. Step 6 Monitor and Evaluate
Task 1: Develop the performance monitoring programme – to allow the strategy or plan to be evaluated
Task 2: Evaluate the accuracy of monitoring data – to improve the monitoring system
Task 3: Report results of the performance evaluation - to allow for future adjustments based on results
Including climate change in coastal and marine monitoring systems
Relevant indicators to monitor climate change impacts on environment and on economic activities
Indicators to monitor achieving climate related objectives
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

15. Step 7 Steps towards a new management cycle
Task 1: Reconsider and redesign the coastal and marine management approach – to allow the strategy or plan to be evaluated
Task 2: Identify the gaps and areas of improvement
Task 3: Start the next round of coastal and marine planning
Re-evaluating plan based on new scientific data on climate change
Assessing gaps, if any, with ICM and MSP and climate related strategies
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

16. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Way Forward?
Feedback! Feedback! Feedback!
How?
By when?
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

17. © Fresh Thoughts Consulting
Thank you for your attention!
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting

18. Questions for the Breakout Session
Should we stay with the structure of the document? What should be added, dropped, changed?
What are the main elements from a climate change adaptation perspective that should be included in the document?
Which of the proposed steps in the document is most crucial for getting climate change adaptation mainstreamed into ICM/MSP.
Are there examples of how you would include climate change adaptation in each of the steps?
Any other comments
27/10/19
© Fresh Thoughts Consulting