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Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 3: Resilient decision-making

Summary: The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.

Published: 2026

ISBN: ISBN 978-1-80009-392-8 June / 2026 / Website

Pages: 34

Filesize: 2,435 KB

Format: pdf

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Working Group 3: Resilient decision-making

Authors: Alan O'Connor, Alice Taylor, Andrea Lennon, Ann Marie Crosse, Avril Challoner, Bryn Canniffe, Caitriona De Paor, Charlie Coakley, Christopher Phillips, Clare Lee, Colm O Looney, Cormac McKay, Dearbhala Ledwidge, Dervala Leahy, Eadaoin Healy, Eddie Meegan, Eugene Farrell, Fernanda De Souza Rocha, Grainne Kennedy, Mohammad Ibrahim Khalil, John Enright, John McNally, Jonathan Chambers, Jordan Delmar, Joseph McNamara, Julie Clarke, Kevin Lynch, Kevin McCormick, Kiran Vargaonkar, Kritika Singhal, Liz Wakefield, Lorcan Connolly, Mary Teehan, Maurice Ryan, Niamh Kennedy, Ray Nesbitt, Ronan Walsh, Sarah Cunningham, Suzanne Jackson, Suzanne Wylde, Thais Camolesi Guimaraes, Tim Kavanagh, Tom Cronin 

Working Group 3 focused on resilient decision-making, and how frameworks are developed and applied across sectors and scales to support effective, long-term adaptation planning. The report concludes that Ireland’s climate adaptation strategy must evolve into a clear, inclusive, and future-ready framework. This requires coordinated governance across national, sectoral, and local levels, supported by scenario-based planning and justice principles embedded in all sectors. The working group calls for integrating reference warming trajectories into planning frameworks and updating infrastructure standards to reflect projected climate impacts. Building capacity within local authorities and small organisations is critical to enable long-term, locally driven adaptation.