Action Plan for the Adaptation to Climate Change of the Environmental Administration 2022

The Action Plan for the Adaptation to Climate Change of the Environmental Administration contributes to the implementation of Finland’s National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2022. According to the national plan, the responsibility for the implementation, monitoring and reporting rests with the relevant ministries. The objective is that the Finnish society has the capacity to manage the risks relating to climate change and adapt to the changes. The aim in the implementation is that adaptation is incorporated into regular planning and activities of all sectors and actors. The action plan of the environmental administration aims to identify the most important tasks to promote adaptation in each sector in the next few years. The actions included as such that they can be considered to concern the whole administrative sector or ones that concern built environment, environmental protection, biodiversity, and water resources management and water protection. Measures concerning water resources management have been prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The new action plan is based on the action plan prepared in 2008, which was updated in 2011, and the evaluation of the action plan conducted in 2012. The impacts of climate change will differ in different parts of Finland. This is why it is important to make sure that the objectives and measures relating to climate change adaptation are linked to the circumstances specific to each location. The preparation of the action plan was strongly based on the regional and local perspectiv