Adaptation to climate change — Principles, requirements, and guidelines

CSA Group
Standards Development Organisation:
Canadian Standards Association (operating as CSA Group)
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
CSA Z14090
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
ICS code(s):
13.020.40
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

This document specifies principles, requirements, and guidelines for adaptation to climate change. This includes the integration of adaptation within or across organizations, understanding impacts and uncertainties and how these can be used to inform decisions.

This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, e.g. local, regional, international, business units, conglomerates, industrial sectors, natural resource management units.

This document can support the development of sector-, aspect- or element-specific climate change adaptation standards.

Project need:

To enable Canadian organizations to give appropriate consideration to climate change adaptation when designing, implementing, improving and updating policies, strategies, plans and activities. This proposed New Standard is being developed at the request of Standards Council of Canada. It will provide the industry with principles, requirements and guidelines for adaptation to climate change. This will meet the strategic needs of the following key interests: 1. any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, e.g. local, regional, international, business units, conglomerates, industrial sectors, natural resource management units

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