EN ISO 14090:2019

Adaptation to climate change - Principles, requirements and guidelines (ISO 14090:2019)

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.

Anpassung an die Folgen des Klimawandels - Grundsätze, Anforderungen und Leitlinien (ISO 14090:2019)

Dieses Dokument legt Grundsätze, Anforderungen und Leitlinien für die Anpassung an den Klimawandel fest. Dazu gehören die Integration der Anpassung innerhalb von oder zwischen Organisationen, das Verstehen von Auswirkungen und Unsicherheiten und das Wissen darüber, wie dieses Verständnis in Entscheidungen einfließen kann.
Dieses Dokument ist von jeder Organisation, unabhängig von Größe, Art und Beschaffenheit, anwendbar, z. B. lokale, regionale, internationale Organisationen, Geschäftsbereiche, Konglomerate, Wirtschaftsbereiche, Einheiten zur Bewirtschaftung natürlicher Ressourcen.
Dieses Dokument kann die Entwicklung von sektor , aspekt  oder elementspezifischen Standards zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel unterstützen.

Adaptation au changement climatique - Principes, exigences et lignes directrices (ISO 14090:2019)

Le présent document spécifie les principes, les exigences et les lignes directrices relatifs à l'adaptation au changement climatique. Cela inclut l'intégration de l'adaptation dans les organismes et entre les organismes, la compréhension des impacts et des incertitudes et la façon d'utiliser ces informations pour étayer les décisions à prendre.
Le présent document s'applique à tout organisme, quels que soient sa taille, son type et sa nature, par exemple que ce soit au niveau local, national ou international, qu'il s'agisse d'unités opérationnelles, de conglomérats, de secteurs industriels ou encore d'unités de gestion des ressources naturelles.
Le présent document peut étayer l'élaboration de normes d'adaptation au changement climatique spécifiques à un secteur, un aspect ou un élément.

Prilagoditev podnebnim spremembam - Načela, zahteve in smernice (ISO 14090:2019)

Ta standard določa načela, zahteve in smernice za prilagoditev podnebnim spremembam. To vključuje integracijo prilagoditve v organizacijah, razumevanje vplivov in negotovosti, ter kako je te mogoče uporabiti pri odločitvah. Ta dokument se uporablja za vse organizacije, ne glede na velikost, vrsto in naravo, npr. lokalne, regionalne, mednarodne, poslovne enote, konglomerate, industrijske sektorje, enote za upravljanje z naravnimi viri. Ta dokument lahko podpira razvoj standardov za prilagoditev podnebnim spremembam za specifične sektorje, vidike ali elemente.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 02-Jul-2019
• Withdrawal Date: 30-Jan-2020
• ICS: 13.020.40 - Pollution, pollution control and conservation
• Technical Committee: CEN/SS S26 - Environmental Management
• Drafting Committee: CEN/SS S26 - Environmental Management
• Current Stage: 6060 - Definitive text made available (DAV) - Publishing
• Start Date: 03-Jul-2019
• Completion Date: 03-Jul-2019
• Ref Project: SIST EN ISO 14090:2019 - Adaptation to climate change - Principles, requirements and guidelines (ISO 14090:2019)

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2019
Prilagoditev podnebnim spremembam - Načela, zahteve in smernice (ISO
14090:2019)
Adaptation to climate change - Principles, requirements and guidelines (ISO
14090:2019)
Anpassung an den Klimawandel - Grundsätze, Anforderungen und Leitlinien (ISO
14090:2019)
Adaptation au changement climatique - Principes, exigences et lignes directrices (ISO
14090:2019)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO 14090:2019
ICS:
13.020.40 Onesnaževanje, nadzor nad Pollution, pollution control
onesnaževanjem in and conservation
ohranjanje
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN ISO 14090
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
July 2019
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 13.020.40
English Version
Adaptation to climate change - Principles, requirements
and guidelines (ISO 14090:2019)
Adaptation au changement climatique - Principes, Anpassung an den Klimawandel - Grundsätze,
exigences et lignes directrices (ISO 14090:2019) Anforderungen und Leitlinien (ISO 14090:2019)
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 17 June 2019.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this
European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
United Kingdom.
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Contents Page
European foreword . 3

European foreword
This document (EN ISO 14090:2019) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 207
"Environmental management" in collaboration with CCMC.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2020, and conflicting national standards shall
be withdrawn at the latest by January 2020.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the
United Kingdom.
Endorsement notice
The text of ISO 14090:2019 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 14090:2019 without any modification.

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 14090
First edition
2019-06
Adaptation to climate change —
Principles, requirements and
guidelines
Adaptation au changement climatique — Principes, exigences et
lignes directrices
Reference number
ISO 14090:2019(E)
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ISO 14090:2019(E)
Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Principles . 4
4.1 General . 4
4.2 Change-oriented perspective. 4
4.3 Flexibility . 4
4.4 Mainstreaming and embedding. 4
4.5 Robustness . 4
4.6 Subsidiarity . 5
4.7 Sustainability . 5
4.8 Synergy between adaptation and mitigation of climate change . 5
4.9 Systems thinking . 5
4.10 Transparency . 5
4.11 Accountability . 5
5 Pre-planning . 5
6 Assessing climate change impacts including opportunities . 6
6.1 General . 6
6.2 Impact assessment methods . 8
6.2.1 General. 8
6.2.2 Risk assessment . . 8
6.2.3 Vulnerability assessment . 9
6.2.4 Thresholds analysis . 9
6.3 Assessing adaptive capacity . 9
6.4 Identifying opportunities .10
6.5 Identifying uncertainties .10
7 Adaptation planning .10
7.1 General .10
7.2 Policy, strategy and planning context .11
7.3 Decision-making .12
7.3.1 General.12
7.3.2 Identification of climate change adaptation actions .12
7.3.3 Decision-making approaches .13
7.3.4 Short, medium and long lifespan decisions .13
7.4 Adaptation plan .14
7.4.1 General.14
7.4.2 Scope of the plan and boundaries of the system .14
7.4.3 Baselines .15
7.4.4 Climate change information .15
7.4.5 Impacts .15
7.4.6 Adaptive capacity .15
7.4.7 Climate change adaptation actions .15
7.4.8 Implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and communication .16
7.4.9 Interested parties’ engagement .16
8 Implementation .16
8.1 Leadership and commitment .16
8.2 Implementation plan .
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