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Adaptation has reached the political agenda through introduction of legislation and national adaptation strategies

Responses to some of the open-ended questions within the self-assessment survey can provide further insight into the awareness of the need for adaptation in European countries. For example, 30 countries responded to the question regarding planned next steps, and of these, 21 countries reported next steps with respect to legislation to support adaptation and their responses provide some insight into the awareness of the need for adaptation in the political agenda:

• Seven of these 21 countries reported that legislation was being planned with two additional countries reporting that legislation already existed;
• Five of these 21 countries indicated that a national adaptation strategy was planned or under development; 
• Six of these 21 countries reported that legislation to support adaptation was being integrated into sectoral legislation to support mainstreaming;
• Three of these 21 countries indicated that legislation was not yet being considered.
• In addition, the awareness of the need for adaptation in the context of the political agenda is also apparent from the reported next steps relative to updating of strategy /plan.
• 16 of the 21 countries reporting next steps related to updating of their national adaptation strategy/plan indicated planned or continuous process of updating of their strategies/plans and of these 15, five countries indicated that updates were required regularly.