Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop Marriott Resort and Spa, Pattaya, Thailand, 17-20 February 2014

Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

Marriott Resort and Spa, Pattaya, Thailand, 17-20 February 2014

Nele BünnerGesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Session 6The German Adaptation Strategy

German Adaptation Strategy (DAS)National Policy Framework for adaptation to CC• Adopted by Federal Cabinet in 12/2008• Sets out aims and principles• Presents state of knowledge on observed and

projected climate changes and their impacts • Adaptation options on 15 fields of action

General framework (no timeframe):• Risks will be progressively identified• Action needs identified• Appropriate adaptation objectives developed• Adaptation measures identifiedReview and update end of 2015



Action Plan for Adaptation (APA)• Developed by two governmental bodies and

through participatory dialogue with federal states, academia and CSOs

• Adopted in August 2011• Measures on national level:

– Providing knowledge, informing and enabling action– Set framework for national policy – Activities implemented under national responsibility

(impact monitoring, early warning)– International responsibility

• Orientation for other actors• Overview on initiatives of federal states• Next step: Progress Report 2014



Governance structure of German adaptation process


Federal Environment

Agency/KomPass

Federal Ministry for the Environment

Research Institutes

EU - CHM:Adaptation Steering Group

(+ WGs)

Stakeholder(Business, NGO)

Conference of the federal states

Working group of all federal ministries

DAS- process


Implementation and BudgetingBroad range of actors involved and responsible for implementation• Governmental and non-governmental actors• National and federal level

Measures at the national level: • Implemented and funded by government (ministries)• Cooperation with other actors

Measures at the federal and local level: • Implemented by communities, federal states, NGOs, companies,

intercommunal and interregional alliances etc.• Partly financial support from government (promotion schemes)



Providing knowledge and enabling action• Depending on the location and region, effects of CC and

potential opportunities for action, can vary greatly• Thus, many adaptation measures must be planned and

implemented on the local level • The different leaders responsible for such measures could

potentially learn a great deal from each other • → Key component of the German government’s AAP:

Database that presents adaptation measures which were implemented or are currently underway, esp. projects on local and regional level



Database “Tatenbank”• Implemented adaptation measures• Set up by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), published December 2010• Main target groups:

– Municipalities, regional administrations– Companies for public services– Non-governmental institutions

• Aims:– Promoting networks between actors– Learning from realized projects – Source for identifying good practice



Making good-practise visible• Competition “Adaption Pioneers Wanted!” combined with start of

database• Over 60 submissions → 5 winners chosen• Assessment criteria:

- Effectiveness and cost-benefit ration- Co-benefits- Stakeholder participation und acceptance- Feasibility and transferability

• No financial reward, but public award ceremony, good publicity, short PR film

• Aim: establish the database as a comprehensive up-to data reference for adaptation activities in Germany



Examples for Good-Practice



Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning


Initial situation:• City situated in a basin→ forced to think about how fresh air can be ensured even in unfavorable weather conditions • Increasingly hot summers have also

led the city to counteract with increased planning

→ City introduced a package of measures that are mostly borne by the city’s own funds




• Aim of the measures: Incorporating urban climatic factors into planning

• Stakeholders: Environmental Agency (initiator), all institutions involved in urban planning in the region of Stuttgart


Achievements:• Preservation and expansion of green areas and assurance of fresh air corridors

and cold air producing areas• 300.000 square kilometers of green roofs created, tramlines planted with grass

and flowers

Model for internal development:• Minimum standards for the provision and design of green areas, climate-friendly

house construction (e.g. heat insulation), limitation of the degree of soil sealing in city

→ Software tool: record of all gap sites and waste land in database → Existing real estate used to cover demand for building land, avoiding expansion of sealed area






Challenges:• Difficult to acquire open space: building land is scarce in the

city and the price of land is high • Intensive negotiations were required to ensure that the

significance of the concerned areas for the urban climate is taken into account

→ Lessons learnt will help other cities – not least when it comes to matching ambitious concepts with the daily troubles and conflicts of urban planning


Northern Germany: Training module on ACC for farmers


• Identify starting points where the topic CC adaptation can be sustainably communicated in the sector

• Promising approach: integrating the idea of CC in the educational training of young people who become farmers

• Issue of CC adaptation had not sufficiently been taken into account in the apprenticeship


Northern Germany: Training module on ACC


• Aim: developing an interactive training module that raises the trainees’ awareness of risks and opportunities related to climate change and shows them possibilities for action

• Stakeholders: farmers, instructors in the training schools, the chamber of agriculture

• Forms of participation: joint workshops of a working group




Achievements• Training module: combination of theoretical knowledge

transfer and project work → knowledge immediately translated into practice

• Farmers as instructors become contact persons and propagators for the idea of climate change adaptation

• Developed modules can be used in training of farmers in all regions in Germany and be adapted where necessary (e.g. for winegrowing)




Challenges:• Training module on ACC no compulsory element in training of

farmers → topic treated as less important • After the workshops no advanced training to better qualify and

update the farmers as instructors → major deficit of the approach: initial awareness raising and training not sufficient • During practical application, idea of climate protection much more

emphasized than adaptation → increase awareness that climate protection + adaptation to unavoidable impacts of CC are necessary


Results of the “Tatenbank”

• Numerous adaptation measures have been successfully implemented despite challenges

• Database “Tatenbank”: a start in recording implemented measures in order to learn from experience

www.tatenbank.anpassung.net


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http://www.tatenbank.anpassung.net/

Conclusion

• Knowledge base is constantly expanding• DAS is continuously developed and improved to

ensure that this new knowledge is incorporated into the political framework

• Measures in DAS will be evaluated by the end of 2014 (evaluation process)– Indicator-based monitoring– Nation-wide and cross-sectoral vulnerability assessment


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Thank you for your interest!


Contact: Nele Bünner, [email protected] or Dr Till Below, [email protected]

This presentation is based on material kindly provided by the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany. Contact: Petra Mahrenholz [email protected]

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Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop Marriott Resort and Spa, Pattaya, Thailand, 17-20 February 2014