Climate adaptation. Goal: Expand the implementation of climate adaptation practices that center on ecological transitions to ensure that rivers and stream and the Chesapeake Bay continue to maintain biological functioning as environmental conditions change.
Climate adaptation. It is important to not only focus on how society's climate impact can be reduced. We must also create the conditions for how we can be better equipped for the consequences of climate change today and in the future. A new climate adaptation plan was adopted in Växjö in 2021. The plan's development and action areas address, among other things, the design and location of buildings, ecosystem services, and the impact of climate on human health. Climate adaptation work is strongly integrated into the processes that handle physical community planning.
Climate adaptation. In the current Comprehensive Plan, there is a strong focus on the Municipality’s ecosystem services and green-blue values. A green-blue structure integrates green areas and surface water management with urban development and leads to better conditions for managing future climate change. To manage the surface water in Barkarbystaden, a multifunctional park, Kyrkparken, has been developed. Kyrkparken’s surface water facility consists of several ponds or reservoirs, where water is purified, delayed and stored while being led away from the park area. Kyrkparken was designed to serve several purposes, both from a climate adaptation perspective and also to promote recreation and social interaction. Järfälla’s new Climate Adaptation Plan was adopted in 2022. The plan is based on a climate and vulnerability analysis and a related list of measures, and aims to high- light which climate adaptation measures should be prioritized to ensure a resilient municipality. Some of the measures have begun, such as mapping heat stress vulnerability to investigate which locations in the municipality are particularly vulnerable to heat during heat waves. The Municipality has also sent an information folder to property owners to increase their knowledge of climate change, and explain how property owners can improve their preparedness and take preventive action. Järfälla also runs the Vinnova-funded project SVIKT (‘smart plants in the service of climate’). The project tests and develops new, cost-effective and scalable methods for the absorption of carbon dioxide and the purification of contaminated soil. To meet future climate change, the climate adaptation perspective needs to be raised and integrated even more clearly into the community planning process. New technologies for surface water management and carbon dioxide storage can be tested, while natural ecosystem services and existing green areas are preserved where possible. A green-blue plan is being prepared to highlight green and blue values, to enable early-phase integration into the community planning process. The green-blue plan will serve as a planning basis that highlights the ecosystem services that need to be prioritized to ensure sustainable land use in the municipal- ity, with a focus on torrential rain and flooding balanced against other ecosystem services.
Climate adaptation. Uppsala Municipality has worked successfully and systematically to adapt society to the changed climate today and in the future but the work will be honed further. Climate adaptation needs to be integrated with the work done to reduce human climate impact and climate adaptation is now part of the municipality's Environment and Climate Programme. Several committees have designated and overall responsibility for the municipality's climate adaptation. Uppsala has integrated climate adaptation into the municipality's activities and companies, according to the principle that efforts must be made in the operations that are affected and are responsible for the measures required. The work is focused on choosing preventive measures where the source of the problems is addressed as far as possible, choosing measures that reduce or avoid increased climate impact and choosing measures that provide benefits from several aspects, for example in the form of more greenery and a more attractive urban environment. The goal of Uppsala's climate adaptation is to ensure that Uppsala is a robust society that is adapted to the climate changes that are taking place today and that cannot be prevented in the future.
Climate adaptation. Climate adaptation is an area that requires collaboration within the municipal organ- ization. The Municipality’s functions for crisis management, spatial planning and climate transition need to cooperate with the common goal of a society that can deal with the consequences of a changed climate. Eskilstuna currently works with climate adaptation in a range of areas in the munic- ipal organization. Flood mapping has been conducted for the Municipality, and can be found in Eskilstunakartan, the Eskilstuna map service. A storm water policy and plan has been prepared for Eskilstuna Municipality. The policy’s goal for storm water management is, as far as possible, to minimize damage to public and private inter- ests following heavy and torrential rain in a changed climate. The climate adaptation perspective is a part of the work on the comprehensive plan and detailed plans, the committees’ risk and vulnerability analyses, and the Municipality’s preparedness work generally. The issue of dealing with heat waves was raised in summer 2022, including extreme heat at schools, school playgrounds and retirement homes. The Municipality intends to: • Add a further expert to be responsible for coordinating climate adaptation, storm water and water/sewerage in the municipal authority. • Compile a status report of the climate adaptation work under way in the Municipality, where the Municipality is today, and priorities going forward.
Climate adaptation. Kalmar Municipality, like the rest of Sweden and the rest of the world, will be impacted by climate change. The effects of climate change include flooding that threaten communities, infrastructure and companies; high temperatures that pose risks to the health and well-being of humans and animals; and water shortages that affect food production and trade, and increase the presence of pests, diseases and invasive non-native species. The long-term goal of Kalmar Municipality’s climate adaptation efforts is for the Municipality to be resilient to climate change. Human health, nature, cultural heritage and economic interests must be protected. Kalmar Municipality’s first Climate Adaptation Plan describes climate effects and their consequences, i.e. why the Municipality needs to address these issues, and outlines what needs to be done, based on what is currently known, and what general meas- ures are needed in order to make progress. The Climate Adaptation Plan is mainly directed at the municipal group’s operations, which are expected to integrate climate adaptation into their regular work and are responsible for implementing the meas- ures in the plan, including setting priorities and scheduling. Discussing and striving for climate adaptation will also be a natural part of work on becoming climate neutral. Preventing and mitigating climate change is an important part of Climate Neutral Kalmar 2030.
Climate adaptation. To mitigate the consequences of a changed climate and to develop Xxxxx’s proactive, systematic climate adaptation work, in May 2022 the Municipal Council decided on a climate adaptation programme. The programme provides an overall picture of the risks associated with a changed climate in Nacka municipality, and contains priority measures linked to the risks of torrential rain, increasing tempera- tures, rising sea levels and biological diversity, which are currently deemed to be the biggest climate-related risks for the community of Nacka. Nacka Municipality aims to integrate adaptation to the future climate into all planning and implementation.
Climate adaptation. Goal 3.6 of LundaEko includes preventive climate adaptation. According to the goal, the physical environment in Xxxx Municipality will be designed so that the vulnerabil- ity to risks related to ongoing climate change will decrease between 2021 and 2030. Climate adaptation is a complex issue that is woven into several of the Municipality’s plans and processes, such as how heat waves are to be managed or how floods can be prevented through storm water management, for example. The Brunnshög district is used as a test bed for storm water management and how torrential rain can be handled with nature-based solutions. The completed flood mapping is an important foundation for efforts on parts of Xxxx’x water, and the upcoming thermal mapping for population centres in Xxxx Municipality will provide an important basis for efforts to reduce vulnerabilities for at-risk groups, and to create the conditions for improved management of challenges in the future.
Climate adaptation. Since 2020, Örebro Municipality has had a Climate Adaptation Plan in which the high- est priority areas are flooding/torrential rain and extreme heat. The actions outlined in the plan are primarily of an exploratory nature, as our greatest need at present is to acquire more precise knowledge of the consequences and how they can be dealt with. During 2022, for example, we have been quality assuring and supplementing the results of the flooding models used to ascertain relevant physical measures. This process will continue in 2023. A heat mapping of the Örebro urban area was conducted in 2021, and will be supplemented in 2023 with more in-depth analysis of temperatures in municipal premises and how we can prevent them becoming too high in cost-effective, energy-efficient ways. During 2023, Örebro Municipality intends to continue the process of quality assurance and supplementation of the results from the flooding models used to ascertain rele- vant physical measure, and to supplement the heat mapping conducted in 2021 with more in-depth analysis.
Climate adaptation. Goal 3.6 of LundaEko includes preventive climate adaptation. According to the goal, the physical environment in Xxxx Municipality will be designed so that the vulnerability to risks related to ongoing climate change will be reduced between 2021 and 2030. Climate adaptation is a complex issue that is woven into several of the municipality's plans and processes, such as how heat waves are to be managed or how floods can be prevented through surface water handling, for example. The Brunnshög district is used as a test bed for surface water management and how rainfall can be handled with nature-based solutions.
