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Roles and Stages of an Action Plan

Roles and Stages of Action Plan

Councils can address climate change adaptation and mitigation through their roles as:

Ideally a Climate Change Action Plan would cover all six aspects below, but it may be too much to tackle all of these in one go.

Six aspects of a climate change action plan
Adaptation Mitigation
Estate manager Estate manager
Service provider Service provider
Community leader Community leader

Decide on your initial focus

At the outset of the process decide whether:

  • You will focus on just one or two of these aspects at first.
  • You will develop an integrated adaptation and mitigation plan or to keep these as separate plans.

Then get started on the five stages to developing an action plan

We suggest you work through five stages to developing an action plan, but please modify our suggested approach to suit your authority's circumstances.

If you are ready to start the process of developing an action plan, or are already developing your plan but would like some ideas on what to do next, go to the five stages page.

Resources

Click here for links to other local authorities' climate change plans and strategies.

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