IEMA has launched a new EIA Guide for Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation, which comes a day after the Committee on Climate Change’s report to Parliament, which highlighted the current failure to adequately address these risks.

The guidance is based on seven key principles and sets out eight steps (0-7) that should be followed when undertaking an assessment.

• Step 0 – Building climate resilience into the project
• Step 1 – Scoping CC Requirements for the EIA
• Step 2 – Defining the future (climate) baseline
• Step 3 – Identifying and determining sensitivity of receptors
• Step 4 – Reviewing and determining magnitude of the effect
• Step 5 – Determination of significance
• Step 6 – Developing additional adaptation/EIA mitigation4 measures
• Step 7 – Monitoring and Adaptive Management