Embedding in policy
The national Benchmark for Green Climate Adaptive Built Environment explains what climate adaptive building and planning entails. The goals, performance requirements, and guidelines contained in the benchmark give government authorities and construction sector parties, such as project developers, something to go on. The benchmark currently covers new construction projects only. It is not statutorily mandated yet, but the national government is already exploring the options for its embedding in law.
Are you specifically looking for standards or guidelines relating to heat? In that case, the Coolkit will be helpful. It has been developed on the basis of the “Heat-resilient Cities” study. The toolkit outlines how heat stress can be reduced via guidelines for distance to cool spots, percentage of shade in pedestrian areas, and percentage of greenery per type of neighbourhood.
The national Benchmark for Green Climate Adaptive Built Environment explains what climate adaptive building and planning entails. The goals, performance requirements, and guidelines contained in the benchmark give government authorities and construction sector parties, such as project developers, something to go on. The benchmark currently covers new construction projects only. It is not statutorily mandated yet, but the national government is already exploring the options for its embedding in law.
The national benchmark does not mandate measures and thus leaves room for regional substantiation. Do you aim to embed climate adaptive and nature inclusive construction in regional or local policy? The Guidelines for Climate Adaptive Construction can be helpful. These guidelines feature actual model regulations regarding heat stress, drought, flood impact reduction, and waterlogging, showing what can be set down in regional or local policy.
The Merging: climate adaptive instruments for construction & development guide presents an overview of the control options for climate-adaptive area development. It supports organisations in assuming the appropriate roles and in using supporting instruments to this end. Furthermore, it contains a range of best practices.
The Policy mixer provides an overview of ways to foster climate adaptation on private premises. The tool also shows how financial incentives can be used to this end.
The publication entitled Models for legal instruments regarding climate adaptation explains how municipalities can set down regulations for water storage by private individuals.
The Framework for embedding climate adaptation on private premises outlines how and when ten instruments can best be employed. The instruments include a building decree, a rainwater decree, a performance agreement, and a collective development ambition.
The Guideline for Integrated Environmental Visions is intended to inspire regional and local authorities when collaborating on an environmental vision. The Guideline presents lessons on participation; on integration and interconnection; on cultural changes; and on digitalisation.
The Guideline for Urban Water Management under the Environment Act sets out how climate adaptive urban water management can be integrated into an environmental vision, environmental programme, and environmental plan.
Climate adaptation is connected with the various roles that groundwater plays in our society. For that reason, proper consideration of groundwater interests in your environmental vision is important. The Groundwater and Spatial Planning tool explains how.
Do you want to know how to incorporate climate adaptation in a tender process and a contract? In a Guideline (in Dutch), Tauw consultants outline three universal control elements: selection criteria, requirements, and allotment criteria.
Do you, as a municipality, need help setting down climate adaptation from a legal perspective and at the administrative level? The Embedding Instruments tool developed by the province of Gelderland will be helpful.
Also of interest: the study report on Climate adaptive tendering in real estate and area developments. The report provides practical tips for municipalities selling land and real estate in tender processes. Helpful, because properly embedding climate adaptation in real estate and area development tender processes remains quite difficult in actual practice.