Climate Change Action Plan of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, 2015-2018 (Cambodia)

The Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction identifies eight prioritized actions responding to climate change. These include: 

1. Prepare spatial planning guideline at all levels for climate change adaptation. 
2. Integrating climate change response measures to the commune land use planning. 
3. Conduct vulnerability assessment for major urban and cities (13 towns/cities) to climate change and develop climate safeguard principle. 
4. Promote the settlement development that adapt to natural disasters at urban and rural. 
5. Promote proper shelters for low-income households and vulnerable households. 
6. Formulating and developing green infrastructures and green buildings guideline for existing and on-going city master plan. 
7. Mainstreaming climate change to the development of building code. 
8. Enhancing climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation through regional and provincial spatial planning, master plan and land use planning in coastal areas. 

The CCAP is intended to contribute to building resilience of communities and greenhouse gas mitigation efforts. The action plan improves the resilience of communities through Commune Land Use Planning and other land use maps. Further, it addresses climate change issues in urban areas.