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The Adaptation
Response
Kalundborg Municipality
and the Danish Board of
Technology (DBT) carried
out a comprehensive and
path-breaking participatory
approach involving local
stakeholders and citizens
to prepare for a Municipal
Climate Change Adaptation
Plan.
The resulting plan was
adopted in 2014 by the
Kalundborg Municipal
Council.
The participatory aspect of
the plan was part
of the EU-INTERREG project
“BaltCICA” on climate
adaptation in the Baltic Sea
Region, which ran from 2009
to 2012 and included,
inter-alia, a two-day
scenario-workshop and a
citizens’ summit.
In BASE, the participatory
process itself was examined,
as well as the impact of
participation on the final
adaptation plan.
The focus was on the ability
or willingness of the
authorities to incorporate
local views into their shortand
long-term adaptation
planning.
The People and
Institutions
Involved
DBT ensured a close dialogue
with the Kalundborg Municipal
Committee for Engineering
and Environment from the very
beginning and throughout the
participatory process. After the
citizens´ summit, DBT
prepared an analysis of the
possible political implications
of the voting results and
presented it to the Committee,
which took cognisance of
these recommendations and
asked the city’s Department of
Engineering and Environment
to include these in the
adaptation plan. The Department
established a small
working group to draft the
adaptation plan itself.
Photo: Jørgen Madsen
Citizen summit -
citizens and politicians
discuss future climate
change impacts and
response
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