Green Deal

Plans for self-protection against floods in local communities

Chartered Community of Navarre, Chartered Community of Navarre, Espagne

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  • Sustainable territorial and urban planning
  • Adaptation to climate change
  • Climate neutrality or Green Deal strategy/plan

Navarre seeks to provide faster, more coordinated and more effective operational coherence when responding to flood events in order to protect the population and, to the extent possible, avoid and reduce damage that may occur at municipal level.

The European Green Deal has propelled a new EU Adaptation Strategy, which includes references to disaster-risk reduction and prevention. The EU Floods Directive (2007/60) recognises that climate change is contributing to an increase in the likelihood of floods, and calls for this to be taken into account in preliminary flood risk assessments to identify the areas most at risk (areas of significant potential risk of flooding), and when drawing up and reviewing hazard and risk maps and flood-risk management plans.
According to the Navarre special flood-risk emergency plan, municipalities with a certain degree of risk are required to have local emergency plans for floods.
The Government of Navarre and the Environmental Management of Navarre (GAN-NIK) are working with the local authorities of a number of municipalities that are at risk of flooding and that are located in areas with significant potential risk of flooding to draw up municipal emergency plans for flood management and to establish various measures to improve flood-risk management and provide the public with an adequate level of protection (self-protection) in order to reduce, to the extent possible, any potential damage that could occur.

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