Each organisation should have an ‘adaptation lead’ who will co–ordinate adaptation planning:

• Use this toolkit to guide adaptation planning work in your organisation
• Organise and facilitate meetings, and provide secretariat for, an ‘internal’ working group; made up of representatives from as many departments as possible within your organisation.
• Engage with elected representatives, senior management and teams across your organisation to raise awareness of climate change and secure support for climate adaptation.
• Coordinate work between meetings, write–up findings from internal workshops and draft action plans.

The role of others in the organisation:

• Engage across relevant departments to raise awareness of climate change and encourage climate adaptation actions
• Be responsible for delivering and reporting climate adaptation actions to support delivery of the council’s adaptation plan
• Support the Adaptation Lead with time and resource as required to complete the plan, including attendance to meetings and assembly of a ‘core working group’ with which to share work and receive advice.