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Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 4: Resilience indicator development

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 978-1-80009-393-5 June / 2026 / Website

Pages: 26

Filesize: 2,427 KB

Format: pdf

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Working Group 4: Resilience indicator development

Authors: Aisling Doyle, Alan O'Connor, Alice Taylor, Annalisa Setti, Brian Crowley, Caitriona De Paor, Charlie Coakley, Christopher Phillips, Conor Galvin, Corrado Grappiolo, Colm Bates, Cormac McKay, Darren Clarke, David Dodd, Eadaoin Healy, Elaine Keenan, Eugene Farrell, Fintan McGrath, Geraldine Ann Cusack, Gregory Murray, Ibrahim Khalil, John Paul Corkery, Jonathan Chambers, Jordan Delmar, Julie Clarke, Kevin McCormick, Kiran Vargaonkar, Liam Heaphy, Liz Wakefield, Lorcan Connolly, Mary Teehan, Ronan Walsh, Seosamh O’Laoi, Stephen Flood, Suzanne Jackson, Tim Kavanagh, Tom Cronin, Thais Camolesi Guimaraes

Working Group 4 focused on mechanisms to develop meaningful, scalable indicators to track resilience across sectors. The report concludes that Ireland’s approach to climate resilience would benefit from a national indicator hierarchy to track adaptation progress across sectors, covering climate hazards, impacts, implementation, and outcomes. Working Group 4 calls for standardised indicators aligned with national and EU frameworks, supported by cross‑sector collaboration, technical training for local authorities, and cross‑border, all‑island coordination. Equity must be embedded in indicator frameworks through clear justice metrics and inclusive stakeholder engagement.