Spain: National climate change adaptation plan (condensed version)

The National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (PNACC in Spanish) is the reference framework tool for the coordination of Public Administrations’ efforts dealing with the assessment of impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change in the Spanish sectors acknowledged as potentially affected (water management, agriculture, forests, biodiversity, coasts, health, tourism, etc.). The National Adaptation Plan provides tools for the elaboration of diagnosis analyses and the development of more efficient measures for adaptation.

Adaptation to climate change is a challenge for several management sectors (public and private) and requires a permanent updating of the base knowledge on potential effects at local level, and of the most advisable strategies to successfully address them. To that end, it is essential to pave the way for sharing the knowledge and experience coming from different Spanish agents. As a result, the Plan has been conceived as a process to guide the activities of Public Administrations, enterprises and stakeholders towards a common objective, committing themselves to the fight against climate change.