Stakeholders Engagement This module considers the importance of stakeholder engagement in this process stage with links to Clim-ATIC case studies.

1. Online Training Resource: Climate Adaptation
Implementing Adaptation

2. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Stakeholders
Stakeholders Engagement
This module considers the importance of stakeholder engagement in this
process stage with links to Clim-ATIC case studies.
Climate Adaptation
Deborah Davies, Carlo Aall, Eli Heiberg, 2012
Online Training Resource

3. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Stakeholders
Adaptation Measures and Stakeholders
Adaptation is the responsibility of a wide range of
stakeholders, and will bring benefits to the
organisations, communities and individuals who
adapt appropriately.
Some adaptation measures are undertaken by
individuals, while other types of adaptation are
planned and implemented by governments on
behalf of societies, sometimes in anticipation of
change but mostly in response to experienced
climatic events, especially extremes.
Climate Adaptation
Online Training Resource

4. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Stakeholders
Initiating Adaptation Measures Locally
A traditional approach to initiating local climate change adaptation is to start out with analysing the
community’s climate vulnerability. Next, an adaptation strategy can be drafted and followed up with
adaptation measures.
A few points of elaboration:
• It is useful to separate between a broad approach, where a wide range of themes and climate
parameters are analysed, and a narrow approach where only a selection of problem areas are
analysed.
• Policy fields where climate adaptation might be carried out include energy, civil protection, land-
use planning, biodiversity, pollution, etc.
• Adaptation considerations or measures could be integrated into several planning documents, e.g.
municipal plans, risk and vulnerability analyses, sector plans, budgets, etc.
Climate Adaptation
Online Training Resource

5. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Stakeholders
Ladder of Engagement
Examples of stake-holder engagement can be
found in the resource bank below.
These case studies were developed as part of the
Clim-ATIC programme’s of demonstration
adaptation projects.
Climate Adaptation
Online Training Resource