Evolving road mapping

Evolving road mapping is a procedural framework that enables a wide range of regional stakeholders to actively shape climate change adaptation and jointly develop a tailor-made climate change adaptation road map with objectives, strategies and measures.

The road map process consists of five steps to be carried out by the stakeholders involved:

• clarifying what the project will involve, including political support;
• scoping, focusing on the areas to be addressed;
• forecasting, aligning the desired future with the anticipated future using guiding principles, development goals and climate scenarios;
• backcasting, developing strategies and measures by working backwards;
• creating the road map and receiving political feedback.

Evolving road mapping's strength lies in its integrated approach of tailor-made tools and methods:

• The evolving road mapping process enables intelligent, systemic, co-productive and inclusive stakeholder dialogues at regional level.
• The process promotes capacity building and establishes regional cooperation, enabling the evolving road mapping method to be implemented autonomously.
• A detailed climate impact assessment is carried out for the entire region, with the possibility of zooming in on individual blocks of buildings.
• Monitoring enables measures and their implementation to be reviewed.