How to Manage Cloudbursts and Rain Water - Action Plan for a Climate-Proof Denmark 2012.

This Action Plan for a climate-proof Denmark provides an overview of the initiatives that the government has either planned, or already set in motion, to ensure that Denmark will become more resilient to climate change. In particular, Part 2 deals with an Improved Framework for Climate Change Adaptation establishing that the government intends to improve the framework for climate change adaptation efforts. Primarily, this involves mainstreaming the regulatory foundation, and providing the appropriate tools to convert political commitment into real investments. In order to achieve this, the government will launch a series of initiatives. Amongst these the following are addressed: Increased precipitation. Through legislative amendment, the Ministry of the Environment will ensure that wastewater utilities have the possibility to co-finance projects, carried out by municipalities or private enterprises, which involve roads watercourses and recreational areas and which assist the waste water utilities in their efforts to manage surface water in relation to climate change adaptation. Planning is another issue. In this connexion, the Ministry of the Environment will ensure that the proposal for the National Planning Report 2012 includes a chapter on climate change adaptation and green energy, which examines subjects such as climate change adaptation, climate change, and renewable energy in the form of wind turbines and biogas. As far as building and construction are concerned the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Building will monitor changes in wind patterns and determine whether existing dimensioning rules for buildings should be amended. Nature and the environment; Enterprises and agriculture. The Ministry of the Environment will investigate options in relation to handling of seabed material due to an increased need for excavation of sediment at Danish harbours, as a consequence of climate change. The government will continuously take stock of the progress of the initiatives in the action plan . Furthermore, the municipal climate change adaptation plans will be evaluated in 2015 .
Part 3 concerns More Consultancy and a New Knowledge Base. It is essential that climate change adaptation takes place on a solid, shared knowledge and planning basis. The government will work to spread the necessary knowledge and ensure its ambition that municipalities have prepared climate change adaptation plans within a two-year period.
Part 4 pertains to Strengthened Collaboration and Coordination. Efficient climate change adaptation demands a coherent climate change adaptation effort. Therefore the government encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing. Open communication and appropriate examples play an important role. The government will lead the way with a series of collaborative projects and encourage other parties to participate.
Part 5 regards Green transition – growth and employment. The government will ensure that climate change adaptation efforts contribute to transition to a green economy and thus create jobs now and in the future. This will be through collaboration with the business community, export drives and support schemes for development and promotion of new Danish technologies. In particular, the government seeks to promote the use of public-private collaboration, and the Ministry of the Environment will therefore investigate whether there are appropriate opportunities to apply public-private collaboration in relation to wastewater treatment in the climate change adaptation area in Denmark.
The last Part deals with International Climate Change Adaptation establishing that the government will encourage intensive international work in relation to climate change adaptation. This applies in the European Union and United Nations as well as in Denmark’s bilateral collaborations.