The manual is intended for elected and executive representatives of local and regional self-governments, including spatial and strategic planners, heads of offices, experts in various departments, etc. It has the ambition to be their assistant in adapting to climate change and summarizes current knowledge on this topic in a clear form. It is divided into two parts that overlap. The first is devoted to the approach, tasks, process and individual steps of adaptation at the level of local governments, and the second talks about the tools that local governments can effectively use in the chosen approaches and in implementation of individual steps of the adaptation process.