Expert Workshop on Adaptation Financing and Implementation, Putting Priorities into Practice in OECD Countries, Paris, 18-19 June, 2014

1. Tools for mainstreaming adaptation
into policy making – a Finnish
perspective
Kirsi Mäkinen
Finnish Environment Institute
Climate Change Programme
OECD Workshop on Adaptation Financing and Implementation
Paris, 18-19 June 2014

2. Adaptation policy cycle
3
Research
programmes
early 2000s
NAS 2005
Sector
programmes
• Agriculture and
forestry 2011
• Environment
2008, 2011
• Transport 2009
NAS Evaluation 2009
Sector programme
evaluation 2012
NAS evaluation
2012-2013
NAS 2014
Research programme
ISTO 2006-2010
Research
programme
FICCA
2011-2014

3. Key mechanisms for mainstreaming (1/3)
NAS and sectoral adaptation
programmes
4
Evaluations
Horizontal coordination

4. Key mechanisms for mainstreaming (2/3)
5
European funding instruments (Life, ERDF) for local projects

5. Development of tools: flood protection, climate
projections/scenarios with national & local application
Key mechanisms for mainstreaming (3/3)
6
Ivalo flood risk map (1/1000a)

6. Barriers and some solutions
Evaluation - Self reflection among
sectoral policy makers
”Bridging the resource gap” -
Practical tools for policy
implementation (e.g. flood centre,
www.climateguide.fi)
Overcoming the limits of top-down
NAS through support for local
action
Lack of uptake by ”all”
sectors
Poor recognition of
cross-sector effects
Limited diffusion to local
level (but at the same time
autonomous local
initiatives)
7
+ Elements in the revised NAS

7. Outlook in 2014
● Climate Act
(reporting and evaluation
of adaptation)
● 2014 NAS implementation
● 2015 First reporting on
adaptation according to
the EU Monitoring
Mechanism Regulation
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