Derry City and Strabane District CouncilClimate Change Adaptation Plan 2020-2025
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Appendix 4<br />
Strategic Context<br />
Area<br />
Strategy/ Policy<br />
/ Legislation/<br />
Document Title<br />
Organization/<br />
Department/<br />
Agency<br />
Relevant Statement(s)<br />
International &<br />
EU<br />
Paris Agreement<br />
2015<br />
United Nations<br />
(United Nations<br />
Framework on<br />
Climate <strong>Change</strong>)<br />
195 Global<br />
Signatories<br />
> Requires ambitious mitigation action to reduce GHG emissions<br />
to hold the global temperature rise ‘well below 2°C above preindustrial<br />
levels’, <strong>and</strong> to pursue efforts to limit the rise to 1.5°C.<br />
> <strong>Adaptation</strong> goal; ‘enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening<br />
resilience <strong>and</strong> reducing vulnerability to climate change’.<br />
European Union<br />
Climate <strong>Change</strong><br />
<strong>Adaptation</strong><br />
Strategy 2013<br />
European Union<br />
> Promoting action by EU Member States: the EU Commission<br />
encourages all Member States to adopt comprehensive<br />
adaptation strategies <strong>and</strong> provides funding to help build up<br />
adaptation capacities <strong>and</strong> take action.<br />
> Climate-proofing by further promoting climate change<br />
adaptation in key vulnerable sectors.<br />
> Better informed decision-making by addressing gaps in<br />
knowledge about adaptation <strong>and</strong> further developing the<br />
European climate adaptation platform (Climate-ADAPT) as the<br />
‘one-stop shop’ for adaptation information in Europe.<br />
DCSDC Climate <strong>Change</strong> <strong>Adaptation</strong> <strong>Plan</strong><br />
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