Adaptation to Climate Change in the Administrative Sector of the Ministry of the Environment

Abstract

To implement the National Adaptation Strategy, the Ministry of the Environment issued an Action Plan in 2008. Given that, both internationally and in Finland, further details are rapidly emerging on climate change and its impacts, it was decided that the Action Plan should be updated at regular intervals and that the first revision and update should be carried out at the end of 2010. The environmental administration’s Action Plan Update covers the years 2011 and 2012. It will provide a sound basis for updating Finland’s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change, scheduled to begin in late 2011.