Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (BALTADAPT)
Baltadapt project is developing a Baltic Sea Region-wide climate change adaptation strategy. This truly macro-regional strategy will focus on the sea itself and its coastline areas, covering four key sectors: marine biodiversity, coastal infrastructure, fisheries and agriculture, and coastal tourism. While it is understood that such a strategy cannot be adopted by Baltadapt, the project can ensure its preparation and clear the ground for its adoption.
Project activities
- Identify and review current knowledge on climate change with special focus on regional climate information, the Baltic Sea ecosystem, the coastal zone.
- Develope an information portal providing structured access to all available information on climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region.
- Develope a Baltic Sea Region climate change adaptation strategy in close consultation with local and regional stakeholders and a policy forum for climate change adaptation.
- Identify necessary actions to be included in an action plan for implementing the strategy.
- Identify suitable funding mechanisms for financing the actions laid out in the action plan.
- Contribute to EU policy papers and the programming process of national and transnational programmes.
Contacts
Kestutis Navickas
Tel. 8 5 255 9146
El. p.: kestutis.navickas[at]bef[dot]lt
Website
Duration
2010/10-2013/09
Support
Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007 – 2013
Partners
Danish Meteorological Institute (Denmark, Project coordinator)
Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience (Denmark)
Baltic Environmental Forum Lithuania
Federal Environment Agency – UBA (Germany)
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Germany)
Finnish Environment Institute – SYKE (Finland)
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (Germany)
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute – SMHI (Sweden)
The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (Sweden)