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SEA AND CLIMATE CHANGE AS CHALLENGE IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITION COUNTRIES
17-18 November 2010
Climate and air feature in the standard list of environmental criteria for all SEAs.
Due to the tremendous importance of climate change, its cross-cutting nature, and the complexity of specific risks and solutions, the adequate reflection of climate change within SEA is considered as a great challenge. On the other hand, SEA is one of the tools which is best placed to explore different policy options, to model scenarios for climate change and to test mitigation measures and adaptation solutions in an interactive way with stakeholders and decision-makers.
The course helps assessment practitioners as well as stakeholders and decisionmakers involved in SEAs to fully exploit these potentials. It is mainly addressing participants from developing countries and will be conducted at advanced level. The course is based on the assumption, that climate change can be reflected within the structures of an “ordinary” SEA and does not need a specific assessment tool. The SEA approach of the training is oriented on the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Guidance on SEA. The specific challenges of climate change within SEA are specified within a separate Advisory Note by the OECD DAC, which will provide the conceptual framework to the course.
The GTZ training course was adopted by OECD DAC as the official training for implementing the SEA Guidance and has been conducted several times during IAIA annual conferences. The version of the course as offered here is further developed to explore through interactive casework simulations how the challenges, potentials and adequate tools can be applied during each step of SEA to adequately reflect mitigation as well as adaptation challenges of climate change.
The specific objectives of this training are:
- to explore challenges of climate change within SEA,
- to search strategies to integrate climate change considerations into policies, plans and programmes and
- to apply approaches and tools to reflect mitigation and adaptation within SEA.
The course will address an SEA for a land use planning case. Specific questions in respect to climate change include, e.g.:
- How to identify key vulnerabilities from climate changes in respect to land use patterns in a concrete plan.
- How to make a plan "climate proven."
- How to incorporate structural changes in the plan, which reduce the GHG emissions.
- How to calculate GHG emissions during an SEA—including cumulative impacts—and compare different options.
Level: Advanced
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of SEA concepts and practices; preferably participants, who were challenged with the task to adequately reflect climate change in SEAs during their practical work.
Language: English
Duration: 2 days
Min/Max: 10-25
Fee: US$395
Instructors: Alfred Eberhardt, Head of Climate Change–Mitigation and Adaptation section; Ministry for Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Areas of the German Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein and Consultant to GTZ in the fields of impact assessment, SEA, climate change, Germany Bernhard Frey, SEA Project Offi cer at Project Rioplus / GTZ – Environmental Policy and Promotion of Strategies for Sustainable Development, Germany