Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice

This document offers guidance for designing and carrying out conservation in the face of a rapidly changing climate. The report demystifies the discipline of climate adaptation by offering a common-sense approach to adaptation planning and implementation that breaks the process into discrete and manageable steps.

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The Climate-Smart Conservation Cycle, a general framework for adaptation planning and implementation.

The guide provides an overview of how climate change may affect species and ecosystems, offers general principles for successful climate adaptation, and outlines a set of “key characteristics” of climate-smart conservation. It follows a generalized framework for adaptation planning referred to as the “climate-smart cycle.”