Introduction
This is where you begin to take action and implement your new strategy. This won’t always run smoothly but is a gradual process which develops over time. Seek collaboration and dialogue within and beyond your organisation.
Following implementation, regular monitoring and meticulous review are essential to gauge efficacy and ensure the plan’s vitality and impact. Define the metrics of success and assess progress towards those benchmarks.
Identify supplementary information, actions, or resources that could bolster progress, and pinpoint obstacles hindering advancement. With each iteration of your net zero plan, integrate enhancements to streamline the process and amplify impact.
Aims
Publish and implement your adaptation plan. Evaluate and report on progress.
Objectives
Publish and publicise your plan and raise awareness with stakeholders
Deliver adaptation and risk reduction actions
Review progress with owners of actions
Evaluate progress of actions against ongoing climate impacts
Begin to scope any additional detailed projects or data requirements to enable next round of adaptation planning
Review reporting process and identify improvements for next reporting period
Submit reports where required under Climate Change Act (NI) 2022 and other relevant reporting systems
This stage of your climate action plan will see the dissemination and implementation of the work you have achieved in Steps 1 to 4, and is characterised by 3 phases:
1. Delivery
2. Evaluation
3. Reporting
Though the delivery phase Step 5 marks the end of the process of establishing your initial climate action plan for this reporting period, the evaluation and reporting components of this Step mark the beginning of your continuous process of refinement and learning that will help to inform future iterations of your plan.
Publicising your climate action plan will help to establish accountability within your organisation and deliver ongoing buy-in by stakeholders, while regularised, methodical reviews will ensure that your reporting continues to operate in a manner that is fit for purpose.
Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
This guidance document aims to ensure that the plans established in Steps 1-4 are properly disseminated and implemented over the span of the actioning period, covering the three key areas of this process; Delivery, Evaluation and Reporting.
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Public Body Reporting
A centralised resource designed to support public bodies in fulfilling their climate change reporting obligations under the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 which are set by The Climate Change (Reporting Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (‘the Public Body Reporting Regulations’)
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Deliver
1. Publish and publicise your plan and raise awareness with stakeholders
i. Publicise adaptation plan and educate internal and external stakeholders
ii. Check in on progress of with owners of actions regularly
iii. Continually monitor the progress of KPIs and actions, and do an annual review
2. Deliver adaptation and risk reduction actions
3. Work with peer support group
Evaluate
1. Review progress with owners of actions
2. Evaluate progress of actions against ongoing climate impacts
3. Begin to scope any additional detailed projects or data requirements to enable next round of adaptation planning.
i. Review needs and training
ii. Set a programme of reviews subject to changes in other major policies or procedures e.g. update where relevant when there are new net zero projects
iii. Begin to scope any additional detailed projects or data requirements to enable the next round of adaptation planning.
iv. Monitor and Review how Adaptation Plan actions are contributing to both local and regional risks, as well as how wider implementation and adaptation support has been developed across the organisation.
4. Grow your ambition.
Report
1. Review reporting process and identify improvements for next reporting period
2. Submit reports where required under Climate Change Act (NI) 2022 and other relevant reporting systems.
i. Report against regulations
Colleagues in Adaptation Scotland have developed some useful information on what to consider when reviewing and updating adaptation plans. Check out their full framework for a wide range of additional guidance.
Ongoing adaptive management cycle for adaptation planning
Adaptation Capability Framework
Step Five Complete
This plan is the first step in a process of continual improvement, development and learning. The goal of this climate action plan is to create as much resilience and understanding as possible within your organisation and other organisations or communities against the significant challenges of the decades to come. You can now return to Step 1 to develop the second iteration of your adaptation plan.
