Sustainable Planning and Development. Key Focus on Climate Change.

Within the BalticClimate project, climate change scenarios and impact studies were applied at local and regional level in the BalticClimate Target Areas to support the analyses as well as the development of sustainable land use under conditions of climate change. They key idea was to encourage the municipalities and regions to act proactively and to integrate the information on climate change in their 1) spatial planning process, 2) development of important sectors with focus on transport, energy, housing or agriculture, but also 3) cross sectoral development. Corresponding assistance for drafting and implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation measures and considering sustainable land use, planning and development as well, is given by this document. It serves as a guideline and checklist for planners and politicians to consider climate change related issues both when new planning processes and development activities are starting and when decisions made are evaluated.