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Global Indicator of Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Catalonia

Description

The operational objectives of the Catalan Strategy for Adapting to Climate Change 2013-2020 (ESCACC) are firstly to generate and transfer knowledge of climate change adaptation, and, secondly to increase the adaptive capacity of the most vulnerable areas (the Pyrenees, the Ebro Delta and the coast), the socio-economic sectors and the natural systems in Catalonia: agriculture and livestock, biodiversity, water management, forest management, industry, services and trade, mobility and transport infrastructure, fisheries and marine ecosystems, health, energy, tourism, and urban planning and housing.

To achieve these objectives, the ESCACC proposes a total of 182 adaptation measures: 30 of these are generic and the remaining 152 are specific to sectors and systems. The generic measures include the drafting and approval of a Catalan climate change law (in progress), and the establishment of a monitoring system and indicators for the adaptation measures set out in the ESCACC, in order to evaluate how well climate change adaptation is progressing; in other words, a system to determine the effectiveness of the measures to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

The information included in each indicator was organized in a data-sheet format with the following sections:

  1. Sector indicator – name of the indicator.
  2. Operational objective – CONADAPT (to generate and transfer knowledge of climate change adaptation) or CAPADAPT (to increase the adaptive capacity of sectors and/or systems).
  3. Measure(s) to which it responds – adaptation measure(s) to which the indicator corresponds.
  4. Source – information source (direct and indirect sources are differentiated).
  5. Methodology – explanation of the methodology used by the information source to obtain the numerical data.
  6. Data – numerical values of the indicator by year (table).
  7. Graphic representation – of the data.
  8. Desired trend of the adaptation – description of the direction the indicator must take in order to achieve a more effective adaptation, i.e. whether it should increase or decrease. This is a way of explaining how to interpret the indicator and its evolution.
  9. Relevance of the indicator – justification of why this indicator is useful for evaluating the specific measure. It also explains how the data should be interpreted.

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 28 2017   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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