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The Italian National
Adaptation Strategy
High-Level Conference on Water, Climate and Health
Arezzo, Nov. 23, 2012
Sergio Castellari, CMCC, INGV
[email protected]
INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Outline:
 European context
 Towards an Italian NAS
 Conclusions
The challenge:
Even if policies and efforts to reduce
emissions prove effective, some climate
change is inevitable; therefore, strategies
and actions to adapt to its impacts are
also needed.
Despite attribution of causes of climate change,
we need to adapt.
EU Coesion Policy 2014 – 2020
 A menu of thematic objectives:
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Research & innovation
Information and communication technologies (ICT)
Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Shift towards a low-carbon economy
Climate change adaptation & risk prevention and management
Environmental protection & resource efficiency
Sustainable transport & removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures
Employment & supporting labour mobility
Social inclusion & combating poverty
Education, skills & lifelong learning
Institutional capacity building & efficient public administrations
EU – adaptation:
Policy EC papers;
• GREEN PAPER “Adapting to climate change
in Europe - options for EU action” (2007)
• WHITE PAPER “Adapting to climate change:
Towards a European framework for action”
(2009)
Some definitions: NAS and NAP
National Adaptation Strategy (NAS):
• Involvement of stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Analysis of possible mainstreaming of adaptation in the
different sectorial policies.
• Recommendations and guidelines to build up adaptive
capacity in different sectors and at different spatial scales
(national, regional and local) and to reduce societal costs.
• Review after n years.
National Adaptation Plan (NAP):
• Implementation of NAS with governance and funding allocatton.
• Evaluation of implementation.
EU WHITE PAPER: an agenda for adaptation
 (Article 4 of the UNFCCC stipulates that every effort must be
made to adopt national or regional adaptation strategies. )
• Framework of action in 2 phases.
• Encourage the further development of National and Regional
Adaptation Strategies with a view to considering mandatory
adaptation strategies from 2012.
TIME
Phase 1
OBJECTIVE
Preparation of a EU NAS
(2009-2012)
Phase 2
Adoption of the EU NAS -
(from 2013)
Spring 2013
Adaptation Strategy 2013 - objectives
• The knowledge objective:
• furthering the understanding of climate change
vulnerability/adaptation
• improving the knowledge base
• dealing with uncertainties
Feeds into the EU Climate-ADAPT platform
• The facilitation and cooperation objective:
• facilitating exchange between and cooperating with Member States,
regions, cities and all other relevant stakeholders
• providing guidelines for adaptation
• The policy and market objective:
• Integrating adaptation into EU policies
• Use potential of market, market-based instruments and the private
sector in strengthening adaptive capacity, preparedness and response
actions
Objective 1: CLIMATE-ADAPT
http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/
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Supports governmental decision-makers
developing/implementing climate change
adaptation strategies, policies and actions
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Guided by advise from countries (agencies
and ministries), Adaptation Steering Group
(chaired by DG CLIMA), other organisations
(e.g. WHO Europe), experts EU FP projects
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Launched 23 March 2012 (DG CLIMA, EEA)
Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate
Action
Ida Auken, Minister for the Environment, EU
Danish Presidency
Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director
JRC, country and city representatives
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EEA to maintain with JRC and supported by
ETC/CCA
NASs in Europe
12 EU Member Stated adopted a NAS:
Finland (2005), Spain (2006), France
(2007), Hungary (2008), Denmark
(2008), Netherlands (2008), UK (2008),
Germany (2008), Sweden (2009),
Belgium (2010), Portugal (2010), Malta
(2012)
2 no EU MS adopted a NAS:
Norway (2008), Switzerland (2012)
Some EU MS are adopting a NAS:
Ireland (by 2012), Ceck Rep. (by 2012),
Austria (by 2012)
NAS prepation in progress:
Italy (2012 – 2013)
Da CLIMATE-ADAPT (settembre 2012)
Italian NAS: the process
The
Italian
Ministry
for
Environment, Land and Sea
started the work toward a NAS.
Feb. 27, 2012 – Preliminary Meeting,
(IMELS,
Roma)
“Stato
delle
conoscenze riguardo ai cambiamenti
climatici in Italia”
July 6, 2012 – Agreement IMEL and
CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center
for Climate Change) for support to
preparation of scientific – technical
contens of NAS. 06/07/12
Italian NAS:
2 elements:
1. Review of the scientic-technical knowledge on CCIVA in different
national sectors;
2. Possible governance of NAS.
NAS objective:
 Involvement of stakeholder and decision-makers,
 Provision of sectorial and intersecotiral recommandations and
guidelines
Italian NAS: The sectors
1) Water resources (quantity and
quality)
2) Desertification, land degradation
and droughts
3) Hydrogeologic risk
Biodiversity and ecosystems:
4) Terrestrial ecosystems
5) Marine ecosystems
6) Inner water ecosystems
7) Health
8) Forestry
Agriculture, aquaculture and
fishery:
9) Agriculture amd food production
10) Aquaculture and fishery
11) Energy
12) Coastal zones
13) Tourism
14) Urban and metropolitan centers
Critical infrastructures:
15) Cultural heritage
16) Transport
Special cases:
17) Alpine and Appenine areas (mountain
areas)
18) Po river basin
Italian NAS: Synthesis Report
• Identification of the national sectors impacted from CC;
• Evaluation and estimate of the present and future CC impacts
for each sector;
• Evaluation of sectorial vulnerabilities to present and future
climate;
• Possible estimation of socio-economic costs of sectorial impacts.
• Evaluation of already implemented adaptation measures in
sectors:
• Evaluation of adaptive capacity of each sector.
• Possible estimate of future adaptation measures per sector.
Italian NAS: Governance
 Analysis of governance in other EU MS.
 Learning from coming up EU NAS.
 Multiphases approach
Italian case and allignement to EU NAS
Italian NAS: participatory approach
• On-line Questionare (Sept. 24 – Nov. 15)
• Institutional Table
• Stakeholders public consultations
Questionare :
http://www.minambiente.it/home_it/showitem.html?item=/documenti/notizie/notizia_0423.html&lang=it
https://www.cmcc.it/questionario/questionario
CONCLUSIONS
 Italian MAS in progress.
 EU MS lesson learnt.
 Allignement to EU NAS.
Thanks
Sergio Castellari
Address:
Office: :
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E-mail:
Viale A. Moro 44, 40127 Bologna
+39 051 3782618
+39 334 1155037
[email protected]