CONTEXT ANALYSIS Sub-activity A.3.2.1 Municipality of San Benedetto del Tronto – PP2 European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap INTRODUCTION Action 3.2 - Context analysis is part of WP3 ‘Definition and implementation of a Support and Monitoring Platform for Joint SECAPs’. The context analysis is essential to collect information and resources that will be used during the other activities of the project and is considered as the knowledge-base of data to learn and disseminate values of each territorial context. The present template regards sub-activity A.3.2.1, which aims to investigate all existing policies, plans, measures and funding tools already put in place in each territorial context (district level) with a special focus on energy and climate issues. The sub-activity will produce a deliverable (D.3.2.1) conceived as a database form, listing and briefly describing all the identified elements, that will be useful during the implementation phase (WP4), and especially for the implementation of the common online platform. The present template is therefore divided in two parts: Part 1 is dedicated to the identification and description of climate adaptation policies, plans (SEAPs) and measures put in place in partners’ countries/regions; Part 2 identifies and describes the funding tools (programmes, schemes, grants, etc.) that are currently available at national, regional and local level to finance climate adaptation measures (e.g. optimization of water consumption, adaptation of building codes to future climate conditions and extreme weather events, realization of flood defenses, urban forestation, green infrastructure, etc.). Partners have to fill in every part of the template, providing as many relevant details as possible whilst respecting the maximum number of words/characters indicated. European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1: CLIMATE ADAPTATION POLICIES, PLANS AND MEASURES4 National level climate adaptation policies/strategies/plans4 NL1. National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Plan4 NL 2. Proposed Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan10 NL 3. Central Apennines’ Hydrographic District Management Plan13 NL 4. Central Apennines’ Hydrographic District Flood Management Plan16 Regional level climate adaptation policies/strategies/plans19 RL.1 Hydrogeological Structure Plan - Regional River Basins19 RL.2 Hydrogeological Structure Plan –Tronto River Basin21 RL 3. Regional Water Safeguard Plan23 RL 4. Integrated Coastal Zones Management Plan25 PL 5. Marche Region Environmental Energy Plan28 Local level climate adaptation policies/strategies/plans31 LL 1. Local development participatory strategy for the SOUTHERN MARCHE Fishery Local Action Group31 LL.2 Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan – Municipality of San Benedetto del Tronto34 European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 2 LL3. Civil Defence Municipal Plans - Municipalities of San Benedetto del Tronto, Grottammare, Cupra Marittima, Monteprandone35 LL4. Sentina Regional Natural Reserve Management Plan39 LL5. On going River Contracts and CREW Project43 PART 2: FUNDING TOOLS46 National funding46 NF 1. National Plan for the Mitigation of Hydrogeological Risk, Restoration and Protection of the Environmental Resources46 Regional funding47 RF 1. Marche Region ERDF ROP 2014-202047 RF 2. Marche Region Rural Development Programme 2014-202048 Local funding51 LF 1. EMFF 2014/2020 PO – Priority 451 European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 3 PART 1: CLIMATE ADAPTATION POLICIES, PLANS AND MEASURES Please describe any relevant strategy, policy and/or plan at national level, focusing on its parts related to climate change National level climate adaptation adaptation (providing the information below for EACH instrument). Please provide as much detail as possible, also highlighting policies/strategies/plans any criticalities that may occur in the implementation, managing and monitoring phases. Title NL1. National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Plan [Strategia e Piano Nazionale di Adattamento ai Cambiamenti climatici ] Time scope (currently being drafted, approved, into Strategy adopted by Ministry of Environment Directoral Decree n. 86 16/6/2015 force, upgrading, under revision, Plan drafted in 2017, currently under revision (to be submitted to SEA) expiring) European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 4 The National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy aims to be a too l to support national, regional and local institutions in defining their own adaptation paths, also in relation to the specific characteristics of the territories. It outlined the impacts of climate change on environmental resources and processes and on the socio-economic systems of the Italian territory and proposed a vision of the path to tackle them. The subsequent Plan has been issued to implement the Strategy: its general goal is declined in four specific objectives: limiting the vulnerability, increasing the adaptation capacity, improving the exploitation of any opportunities and facilitating the coordination of actions at different levels. The Plan includes a context analysis of the current and future climatic condition, a description of the risk prop ensity and the expected impacts per sectors, an extended list of possible adaptation actions at national level with indications about tools for monitoring and evaluating their effectiveness. According to the plan’s climate analysis, the project area falls within the macro-region 2 "Po Valley, high Adriatic Brief description (including objectives) coast and coastal areas of central-southern Italy". It is characterized by high number of “summer days” high everage temperature and high number of “dry days”, the pluviometric regime is medium-ranged both considering seasonal and extreme values. According to the IPCC scenarios adopted by the plan (COSMO RCP4.5, COSMO RCP8.5), the climatic anomalies expected in period 2021-2050 compared to the period 1981-2010 are: a reduction in both summer and winter precipitation, an increase in extreme precipitation events, a significant increase in summer days. Moreover, the Adriatic Sea is expected to undergo an increase of the average temperature around +1.5°C, with peaks of +2°C increase in winter and spring, while the estimated sea level rise is around 7 cm. The risks analysis conducted by the plan combines information about the potential impacts and the adaptive capacity (both evaluated combining several socio-economic and environmental indicators) into a synthetic risk index applied at provincial level. The province of Ascoli results as characterized by a medium-low “aggregate European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 5 potential impact” and by a medium -high adaptive capacity. The plans contains also the description of the sectorial risks per macro-region. The second part of the plan identifies 376 adaptation actions both cross -sectional and sectorial (also provided in the form of a databases). Sectorial actions are associated with the impacts identified in the first part, related Concrete climate change adaptation adaptation objectives and homogeneous climate areas. The sectors considered are the following: measures foreseen (if any) 1. Water resources 2. Marine environments: biodiversity and ecosystem services European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 6 3. Ecosystems and biodiversity in internal and transition waters 4. Coastal areas 5. Geological, hydrological and hydraulic risks 6. Desertification, soil degradation and draught 7. Land ecosystems 8. Forests 9. Agriculture and food production 10. Maritime fishing 11. Aquaculture 12. Tourism 13. Urban settlements 14. Critical infrastructure - transport 15. Critical infrastructure - dangerous industries and infrastructures 16. Critical infrastructure - cultural heritage 17. Energy 18. Health. The adaptation actions identified by the plan are classified per categories (see table below), then evaluated based on the following criteria: effectiveness, economic efficiency, second order effects, performance in the presence of uncertainty, and considerations for political implementation. European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap 7 Strategy Macrocategory Category Research and assessment Information Monitoring, data collection and modelling Awareness raising and training Institutions Organizational and participatory Mangement Soft (270 act.) processes Partnerships and public participation Regulatory/legislative upgrade Strategies and plans Governance Funding schemes Guidelines Improvement of infrastructures and Plants, Technologies plants Defense systems, storage and distribution Non Soft = Green (46 act) Integrated solutions Forest and agro-forest ecosystems Grey (40 act) Ecosystem based solutions River, coastal and marine Ecosystems Building retrofitting The plan includes a preliminary set of indicators of progress and effectiveness of the adaptation actions, Implementation and monitoring elaborated with the contribution of sectorial experts and organized according to the above-mentioned mechanisms/procedures classification. Guidelines for the development of a monitoring-reporting-evaluation system are also included, even if operational details are not provided. Status of implementation Not formally in force/not implemented Associated funding (if any) Not specified European Regional Development Fund www.italy-croatia.eu/web/jointsecap