This document specifies principles, requirements and guidelines for adaptation to climate change. This includes the integration of adaptation within or across organizations, understanding impacts and uncertainties and how these can be used to inform decisions. This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, e.g. local, regional, international, business units, conglomerates, industrial sectors, natural resource management units. This document can support the development of sector-, aspect- or element-specific climate change adaptation standards.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Principles
4.1 General
4.2 Change-oriented perspective
4.3 Flexibility
4.4 Mainstreaming and embedding
4.5 Robustness
4.6 Subsidiarity
4.7 Sustainability
4.8 Synergy between adaptation and mitigation of climate change
4.9 Systems thinking
4.10 Transparency
4.11 Accountability
5 Pre-planning
6 Assessing climate change impacts including opportunities
6.1 General
6.2 Impact assessment methods
6.3 Assessing adaptive capacity
6.4 Identifying opportunities
6.5 Identifying uncertainties
7 Adaptation planning
7.1 General
7.2 Policy, strategy and planning context
7.3 Decision-making
7.4 Adaptation plan
8 Implementation
8.1 Leadership and commitment
8.2 Implementation plan
9 Monitoring and evaluation
10 Reporting and communication
Annex A Using systems thinking to set boundaries for climate change adaptation (informative)