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Many development efforts and impacts are at risk if climate change is not taken into account. It is therefore necessary to integrate adaptation into different levels of development work, in addition to support to stand-alone climate change adaptation programmes.A number of actors in the fields of science, administration and development cooperation have for some time now been developing practical approaches and instruments to assist the process of mainstreaming adaptation to climate change, and are testing them in the field.