Law No. XV-1029 on Climate Change Adaptation

This Law establishes the legal framework for adaptation to climate change, including the development and implementation of adaptation activities, the collection, preparation and provision of information required for such activities, the competences of responsible institutions, and the management of climate change-related risks.
The document defines the objectives and tasks of adaptation activities and provides for the identification of climate change-related risks, the preparation of climate change risk analyses, the planning and implementation of adaptation measures, and the monitoring of their implementation. It provides for the integration of adaptation activities into sectors for which climate change-related risks have been identified and establishes national adaptation planning instruments.
The Law regulates the responsibilities of the Ministry of Environment, the government-authorized institution responsible for adaptation activities, other ministries and municipal authorities. It sets out procedures for the preparation of national climate change risk analyses, adaptation planning documents and sectoral adaptation measures, and requires the participation of public authorities in the implementation of adaptation activities and the provision of relevant information.
The Law further regulates hydrological, meteorological and climatological activities, including the operation of the national hydrological and meteorological observation network and the collection, storage, use and publication of hydrological, meteorological and climatological data. It contains provisions on warnings concerning hazardous hydrological and meteorological phenomena, the provision of information to public authorities and the public, and the use of climate and climate change projections for adaptation activities.