“Key cross-cutting areas of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan; territorial and social vulnerability, social perception and participation”
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, MITECO, has published the Climate Change Risk Assessment Guide drawn up by TECNALIA experts in collaboration with the Spanish Office for Climate Change and the Biodiversity Foundation.
The guide is now available on the Adaptation to Climate Change in Spain AdapteCCa platform. The document provides criteria for the standardisation of risk analysis and serves as a roadmap for its development and implementation.
TECNALIA's climate change adaptation team has a long track record in climate related vulnerability and risk analysis in key sectors, such as energy, urban development, land use planning and infrastructures. It also participates in international initiatives and forums on the subject.
All of this has enabled the challenge of synthesising the state of the art and drawing up an assessment framework that is sufficiently flexible but harmonised and aligned with the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan, with the collaboration of the OECC and contributions from national experts in the field.
National Climate Change Adaptation Plan
This guide provides a common analysis framework for different communities and areas of expertise: it advances in the comparability between risk analysis in different geographical settings and sectors.
Furthermore, it addresses key cross-cutting areas of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan, such as territorial and social vulnerability, gender, social perception and participation.
Effects of climate change
The climate related risks are extremely diverse: rising temperatures, heat waves, sea level rise, etc. The sectors and receptors affected by these risks are also extremely varied: health, biodiversity, agriculture, tourism, transport and/or energy, among others. It is therefore essential to have standardised criteria for the analysis of these risks that allow the establishment of objectives, planning and activation of actions to adapt to the effects of climate change, reducing its potential impacts.
