Milestone 1: Initiate

IDENTIFY CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS AND RISKS

A changing climate is impacting the environmental, social and economic wellbeing of the region; the risks that Dublin City encounters are related to its geographic and demographic characteristics. Future projections for climate change indicate that the City will face increasing risks associated with rising temperatures, sea level rise, flooding and an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

A climate change adaptation baseline and risk assessment is needed to determine the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and trends, and to highlight the sectors in the City most vulnerable to future risks from a changing climate.

A more in-depth analysis about climate change impacts and risks may be found in both the Adaptation Baseline (under Milestone 2 - Research) and in Appendix I - Climate Change Risk Assessment.

DEVELOP A CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY

With these high-level risks identified, Codema and the Dublin Local Authorities produced A Strategy Towards Climate Change Action Plans for the Dublin Local Authorities, which included a public consultation process. This recognised the need for each of the four DLAs to act on current risks and minimise the projected impact of future ones with mitigation and adaptation actions.

Action areas associated with the remits of the DLAs were identified in order to begin collecting data and actions, and set out how the plans would be developed.