Extreme weather events and changing climatic conditions pose a significant threat to Ireland’s built and archaeological heritage. The Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation plan for Built and Archaeological Heritage (2025) sets out policies, objectives and actions to ensure protection of these resources for future generations against a background of climate change hazards.
This is one of 10 Sectoral Adaptation Plans produced as part of the National Adaptation Framework (a whole of government and society approach to climate adaptation in Ireland) and published in November 2025. This plan provides the policy framework for coordinated activity across a range of heritage (and other) partners to address climate-change impacts. The plan sets out adaptation goals and objectives for Ireland’s built and archaeological heritage and maps them onto specific actions to be implemented.
The final implementation and review of activities of the first Built and Archaeological Heritage plan (published in 2019) were undertaken in March 2025, completing one full cycle and leading into the first steps of this new cycle. For more information on climate-change and heritage, and latest updates on the implementation of the second Sectoral Adaptation Plan for Built and Archaeological Heritage, visit the Built and Archaeological Heritage Climate Action page on gov.ie.