Examples of policies and plans relevant for climate change impacts and adaptation for coastal transport infrastructure

At national and regional level, countries are increasingly developing policies and plans with a view to facilitating climate change adaptation. Public authorities play a pivotal role by providing the appropriate policy framework with a view to promoting climate resilient coastal transport infrastructure. Governments efforts to facilitate climate-resilient infrastructure might target a range of policy areas, including: i) Improving risk assessment and information to support informed and evidence-based decision making by ensuring available and accessible data on projected climate variability and change; ii) Awareness raising and capacity building of relevant decision makers; iii) Screening and factoring climate risks into public investments; iv) Enabling infrastructure resilience through policy and regulation by removing policy or regulatory distortions, or adding regulatory requirements to consider climate risks; v) Encouraging climate risk disclosure; and vi) Revealing interdependencies and supporting the design of appropriate public policy (Vallejo et al., 2017).

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