| Competency Statement |
Access relevant climate action strategies and interpret how they relate to own areas of responsibility and influence |
Support the development of climate action strategies, initiatives, and decisions within own organization or area of responsibility |
Develop climate action strategies, initiatives, and decisions aligned with climate objectives. |
Enable the design and implementation of climate action strategies, initiatives, and decisions. |
| Performance Criteria |
- Identify current climate action strategies related to own work and areas of responsibility
- Identify own role in implementing and actioning climate action strategies
- Research additional strategies relevant to own areas of responsibility and influence
- Use existing climate related strategies to inform the development of own strategy and planning.
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- Support strategies that drive progress and culture change towards climate action and climate justice objectives
- Share relevant information with partners, collaborators, and decision-makers.
- Identify opportunities for and barriers to incremental and transformative climate action measures
- Consider and minimize potential maladaption outcomes
- Evaluate decisions, goals, strategies, policies and procedures.
- Identify relevant local, regional, national and policies, procedures and standards
- Develop scenarios to support assessment
- Apply an integrated risk-management approach (adaptation and mitigation)
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- Identify climate action strategies and initiatives that drive progress and culture change towards climate action objectives.
- Acknowledge the potential need for cross-boundary (geographic, political, disciplinary), cross-sector, and collective strategies, initiatives, and solutions.
- Develop decisions, goals, strategies, policies, and procedures for identified climate action strategies.
- Apply governance structures that facilitate accountability, transparency, and equity.
- Build from and leverage existing sustainability, adaptation, mitigation, and biodiversity research, plans and goals.
- Incorporate evidence and lessons learned from Indigenous and Western sciences and knowledge systems into strategy development.
- Consider a range of needs, outcomes, and opportunities across multiple planning horizons, multiple beneficiaries, and diverse partners and networks.
- Analyse and evaluate alternatives
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- Ensure strategies and actions are flexible, responsive and address a range of futures.
- Leverage national, regional, and local funding opportunities.
- Capitalize on opportunities that are themselves adaptive.
- Balance environmental, social, economic, and cultural factors.
- Employ a diversity and inclusion approach that respects the rights of affected communities or sub-populations
- Communicate the subtleties and broader implications (local and global) when evaluating alternatives
- Maximize long-term social (intersectional) and ecological resilience, biodiversity, and financial viability
- Provide strategic and tactical governance advice to decision-makers
- Champion the value and significance of ecosystem-based, sustainable climate measures and strategies
- Employ a system and social justice perspective
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