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 .