Abstracts
Incorporation of Adaptation to Climate Change into the EIA Process
Rob Young1, Norval Collins and Alan Bell
1Dillon Consulting Limited
ryoung@dillon.ca
A guide to incorporate adaptation to climate change into the EIA process will be described, along with its application to the developed and developing world.
The Guide was developed by members of ClimAdapt, a network of private sector, government and NGOs in Nova Scotia, Canada. The 25-page guide provides an understanding of the implications of climate change in relation to the preparation of an EIA; direction on determining on a project-specific basis whether climate change needs to be considered; sources of information for use in assessing climate change implications, and guidance in incorporating climate change considerations into the EIA process.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency funded a study to apply these guidelines to six case studies using past EIAs from major projects across Canada. Objectives of this study included testing the process and procedures on existing environmental assessments; evaluating the effectiveness of guidance provided on climate change model predictions; and evaluating whether the Guide can be used as a generic framework capable of adaptation to other environmental assessment processes.
2005-04-05 |
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