The French National Climate Change Impact Adaptation Plan aims to plan adaptation actions, prevent inappropriate adaptation and ensure consistency across public policy measures relating to adaptation during the period 2011-2015. The Plan was developed according to the following principles: improve understanding of the effects of climate change in order to inform public decision-making relating to adaptation; integrate adaptation into existing public policy in order to ensure overall consistency and to reflect the cross-cutting nature of adaptation; provide society with information about climate change and adaptation so that everybody can become aware of the issues and take action; consider interactions between activities. Twenty fields have been selected and included in the Plan based on the principles set out in the National Adaptation Strategy: 1) Cross-cutting actions; 2) Health; 3) Water; 4) Biodiversity; 5) Natural hazards; 6) Agriculture; 7) Forests; 8) Fisheries and aquaculture; 9) Energy and industry; 10) Transport infrastructures; 11) Urban planning and the built Environment; 12) Tourism; 13) Information; 14) Education and training; 15) Research; 16) Funding and insurance; 17) Coastlines; 18) Mountains; 19) European and international actions; 20) Governance. The Plan seeks to make agriculture, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture more sustainable. The action sheet on agriculture takes into account the fact that agricultural sector is especially sensitive to the effects of climate change. In the context of adaptation to climate change, agriculture will retain its primary function of providing food. Despite certain inertial factors specific to the agricultural sector, adaptation must form part of a strategic vision, including environmental, economic and social issues as a whole, both at French and a European level, in order to function efficiently. Regarding forestry, the Plan aims to conserve, adapt and diversify forest genetic resources. The water resources action sheet outlines the following key measure: develop water-saving and ensure more efficient use of water, and make 20% savings in water by 2020. The actions to be carried out include improvement of understanding of the impacts of climate change on water resources and the impacts of various potential adaptation scenarios; providing effective tools for monitoring structural imbalance phenomena, resource scarcity and drought within the context of climate change; supporting the development of activities and land use which are compatible with locally available water resources; reinforcing the integration of climate change issues into water planning and management, in particular in the next water agency intervention programmes (2013-2018) and programmes for development and water management (2016-2021). The biodiversity action sheet encompasses the following interventions: integrate biodiversity issues associated with climate change adaptation into research and experimentation; reinforce existing monitoring tools to take into account the effects of climate change on biodiversity; promote integrated land management, mainstreaming the effects of climate change on biodiversity. An action sheet on natural hazards is established as well. It includes measures to establish an infrastructure designed to acquire, process, archive and distribute sea level data in order to observe and understand long-term sea level variations; standardize the concept of vigilance, alerts and the associated mechanisms and make systematic provision for lessons learned feedback; mainstream the impact of climate change on natural hazards in urban development management; reduce vulnerability and improve resilience and climate change adaptation. In the field of governance, the Plan outlines actions in order to (i) support the development of regional climate change adaptation strategies, and (ii) support experience sharing in relation to mainstreaming climate change in regional development strategies. An annual monitoring exercise to review actions will be carried out by the National Observatory for the Effects of Global Warming (ONERC) within the Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) based on indicators defined in the Plan.
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