This document discusses climate change adaptation in developing countries like India. It outlines several key points:
1) Adaptation measures are important for developing countries due to their vulnerability from climate impacts on sectors like agriculture and water resources. Measures aim to build adaptive capacity.
2) India has implemented various national missions through its National Action Plan on Climate Change that incorporate both mitigation and adaptation strategies.
3) Effective adaptation requires accurate, disaggregated data collection and involvement of public, academic and community stakeholders to prioritize adaptation needs.
This document summarizes key points about climate change adaptation from a paper by Dr. Sarah Ahmed. It discusses the vulnerability of developing countries to climate change impacts, the need to enhance adaptive capacity. Adaptation measures include policy, technology, monitoring, and risk sharing. Estimates suggest adaptation will cost $86-100 billion annually by 2015. Accurate cost information is essential for policymaking but difficult to obtain. The document then outlines India's National Action Plan on Climate Change and its focus on both mitigation and adaptation through various missions and sectors. Adaptation costs in India are estimated to be 0.88-2.17% of GDP from 2004-2007.
1) Adaptation to climate change involves managing risks through reducing vulnerability. Risks can be systemic like impacts on energy, agriculture, and sea level rise, or idiosyncratic. Vulnerability depends on exposure and ability to manage risks.
2) Changing behaviors to adapt requires both awareness of impacts and willingness to contribute to social goals. Factors like social norms, costs, and preferences influence willingness.
3) Civil society has an important role in leading adaptation by advising on plans and overseeing implementation. The Joint Principles for Adaptation provide guidelines for inclusive planning, accountability, flexibility, and support for vulnerable groups.
This document discusses successful adaptation to climate change. It addresses who makes adaptation decisions across different scales, from individuals to governments. There are three key dimensions to successful adaptation: reducing a system's sensitivity; altering its exposure; and increasing its resilience. However, defining success is complicated by potential externalities across spatial and temporal scales. Adaptation must be evaluated based on principles of equity, effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy to promote sustainable action.
This document summarizes VicRoads' climate change risk assessment and adaptation strategies. It identifies the greatest risk as the impact of sea level rise on coastal assets in eastern Victoria, which could result in road overtopping and damage to pavements and bridges. While impacts are predicted across the Victorian coast, the effects are likely to be most significant in eastern regions. The assessment adopts a conservative climate change scenario, consistent with other Australian organizations, to project more significant climate impacts by 2030, 2070 and 2100. Adaptation strategies will need to consider asset lifespans and evolve as new climate projections and data emerge.
Climate Change Adaptation: Principle and Perspectives from Thailand, Supakorn...ESD UNU-IAS
This document discusses climate change adaptation in Thailand. It begins with an overview of climate change projections for Southeast Asia, which show trends like increasing temperatures, rainfall, and more extreme weather events.
It then discusses principles of climate change adaptation, defining it as planning to increase society's resilience to future climate variability and change. Examples from Thailand are provided, such as adjusting agricultural practices and irrigation systems to cope with changing rainfall patterns.
The document emphasizes that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific local risks and contexts. It presents a two-step approach to climate change risk assessment involving analyzing current and future projected risks. Finally, it provides the example of improving town planning in Thailand to reduce flood risks from climate change impacts.
The Mekong ARCC (Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change) group and USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change gave a presentation on community climate change adaptation plan in the lower Mekong basin. This presentation gave an overview on the impacts of climate change to the basin, the community process and approach to adaptation, results from the process, and lessons learned.
This document discusses climate variability and climate change. It defines weather and climate, noting that climate is average weather conditions over long periods of time. Climate variability refers to natural fluctuations in climate patterns at different time scales. Climate change implies sustained changes in climate over decades or longer. Changes have been more marked in the last 3 decades and are associated with human activities like greenhouse gas emissions. The document provides examples of climate variability, such as El Niño events and volcanic eruptions, as well as examples of extreme weather events and disasters around the world.
This document summarizes key points about climate change adaptation from a paper by Dr. Sarah Ahmed. It discusses the vulnerability of developing countries to climate change impacts, the need to enhance adaptive capacity. Adaptation measures include policy, technology, monitoring, and risk sharing. Estimates suggest adaptation will cost $86-100 billion annually by 2015. Accurate cost information is essential for policymaking but difficult to obtain. The document then outlines India's National Action Plan on Climate Change and its focus on both mitigation and adaptation through various missions and sectors. Adaptation costs in India are estimated to be 0.88-2.17% of GDP from 2004-2007.
1) Adaptation to climate change involves managing risks through reducing vulnerability. Risks can be systemic like impacts on energy, agriculture, and sea level rise, or idiosyncratic. Vulnerability depends on exposure and ability to manage risks.
2) Changing behaviors to adapt requires both awareness of impacts and willingness to contribute to social goals. Factors like social norms, costs, and preferences influence willingness.
3) Civil society has an important role in leading adaptation by advising on plans and overseeing implementation. The Joint Principles for Adaptation provide guidelines for inclusive planning, accountability, flexibility, and support for vulnerable groups.
This document discusses successful adaptation to climate change. It addresses who makes adaptation decisions across different scales, from individuals to governments. There are three key dimensions to successful adaptation: reducing a system's sensitivity; altering its exposure; and increasing its resilience. However, defining success is complicated by potential externalities across spatial and temporal scales. Adaptation must be evaluated based on principles of equity, effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy to promote sustainable action.
This document summarizes VicRoads' climate change risk assessment and adaptation strategies. It identifies the greatest risk as the impact of sea level rise on coastal assets in eastern Victoria, which could result in road overtopping and damage to pavements and bridges. While impacts are predicted across the Victorian coast, the effects are likely to be most significant in eastern regions. The assessment adopts a conservative climate change scenario, consistent with other Australian organizations, to project more significant climate impacts by 2030, 2070 and 2100. Adaptation strategies will need to consider asset lifespans and evolve as new climate projections and data emerge.
Climate Change Adaptation: Principle and Perspectives from Thailand, Supakorn...ESD UNU-IAS
This document discusses climate change adaptation in Thailand. It begins with an overview of climate change projections for Southeast Asia, which show trends like increasing temperatures, rainfall, and more extreme weather events.
It then discusses principles of climate change adaptation, defining it as planning to increase society's resilience to future climate variability and change. Examples from Thailand are provided, such as adjusting agricultural practices and irrigation systems to cope with changing rainfall patterns.
The document emphasizes that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific local risks and contexts. It presents a two-step approach to climate change risk assessment involving analyzing current and future projected risks. Finally, it provides the example of improving town planning in Thailand to reduce flood risks from climate change impacts.
The Mekong ARCC (Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change) group and USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change gave a presentation on community climate change adaptation plan in the lower Mekong basin. This presentation gave an overview on the impacts of climate change to the basin, the community process and approach to adaptation, results from the process, and lessons learned.
This document discusses climate variability and climate change. It defines weather and climate, noting that climate is average weather conditions over long periods of time. Climate variability refers to natural fluctuations in climate patterns at different time scales. Climate change implies sustained changes in climate over decades or longer. Changes have been more marked in the last 3 decades and are associated with human activities like greenhouse gas emissions. The document provides examples of climate variability, such as El Niño events and volcanic eruptions, as well as examples of extreme weather events and disasters around the world.
An overview of the predicted change in energy demand over time, given the projection that economic growth in the emerging and developing countries is not only overtaking growth in the industrialized countries, but that growth rates are poised to continue increasing and will make unsustainable demands on conventional energy resources, and especially fossil fuels unless drastic action, climate action in fact, is taken to address this concern.
Slide presentations developed to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) be used to address climate change, and why ICTs are a crucial part of the solution – i.e. in promoting efficiency, Green Growth & sustainable development, in dealing with climate change and for climate and environmental action. These slide presentations were delivered in February 2011 in Seongnam, near Seoul in Korea.
These presentations were developed and delivered over 2.5 days on the occasion of a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for upcoming Academy modules on ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Abatement. These modules were developed as part of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government leaders developed by the United Nations (UN) Asia Pacific Centre for ICT Training (APCICT), based in Songdo City, in the Republic of South Korea.
These presentations were developed in 2011, and are somewhat out of date, but most of the principles still apply. Module 10, which has been published, does not include much of the information outlined in these presentations, which are fairly technical. They were developed to address a significant gap in understanding of the technical basis of using ICTs for climate action and because there is a clear bias in development circles against the importance of dealing with climate change mitigation in developing countries. These presentations are an attempt to redress this lack and are published here with this purpose in mind.
The author, Richard Labelle, is presently working on updating these presentations to further highlight the importance of addressing climate change and the important role that technology including ICTs, play in this effort.
Presented by Giriraj Amarnath at the National Workshop on “Use of Space Based Information for Disaster Management” Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 17, 2014
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)FAO
This document discusses Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). It defines DRR as reducing disaster risks through analyzing and managing causal factors, reducing exposure to hazards, lessening vulnerability, improving land and environment management, and preparing for adverse events. CCA is defined as adjusting systems in response to actual or expected climate impacts to moderate potential damages or benefit from opportunities. The document outlines international processes and agendas for DRR and CCA and priorities for action. It discusses rationales for and barriers to harnessing synergies between DRR and CCA, and approaches to facilitate their integration, such as improved access to climate information and risk governance.
A presentation provided to the conference "Food Security & Climate Change in Africa" - by Mr. William Chadza, director of the Malawian Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy, that was organised by Self Help Africa and hosted by the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at University College, Dublin, as part of the programme of activities to mark 'Africa Day', in May 2010. Mr. Chadza was unable to attend the conference at the last minute owing to travel difficulties.
Climate Resilient Pathways, Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Developmentipcc-media
Climate-resilient pathways combine adaptation and mitigation strategies to achieve sustainable development goals despite climate change impacts. They involve iterative risk management by assessing vulnerabilities, reducing risks through actions that consider climate trends and the development context. Pursuing climate-resilient pathways requires resources, practices, awareness and capacity like innovation, institutional support, technology sharing, and adaptive management. Challenges include weak governance and continued high emissions without development changes. Factors for success involve strong institutions, appropriate resources and technology, and ongoing monitoring to improve resilience over time.
This document appears to be notes from a meeting on drought and wildfire between Western governors and White House officials. The agenda includes presentations on drought and wildfires, followed by discussion. The document outlines various federal efforts to address drought, including disaster assistance for workers, water conservation programs, strategic investments, and fire preparedness. It also discusses the impacts of drought on forests and unsustainable increases in wildfire suppression funding.
This document discusses the connections between plastic pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. It argues that plastic pollution has become a planetary crisis due to the huge quantities of plastic entering the oceans each year. Most plastic pollution is invisible in the form of microplastics and nanoplastics that have broken off from larger debris. The production and degradation of plastic drives greenhouse gas emissions and is a major contributor to climate change. It also harms biodiversity through entanglement, ingestion and the introduction of toxic chemicals into ecosystems. The document calls for policymakers to address plastic pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss together as interconnected crises that threaten the stability of the planet.
Climate change , it's impacts and adaption in NepalPrajjwalKoirala
Changing climate always has been a necessary topic and its a real thing happening around us. Its impact is seen in many field. But this slide mainly focuses on the agriculture faculty of climate change. And how Nepal is adapting to its impacts.
Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation in Agriculture in context to Changin...Abhilash Singh Chauhan
- Agriculture is an important sector for India, contributing 17.32% to GDP and providing livelihoods for 54.6% of the population.
- Climate change is causing rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events that are negatively impacting agricultural production in India. Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector, such as from livestock, rice cultivation, and fertilizer use, are also contributing to climate change.
- Both adaptation and mitigation strategies are needed to address climate change in agriculture. Adaptation involves making crops, livestock, and farming practices more resilient to climate impacts. Mitigation focuses on reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions through practices like improved cropland management, livestock management,
Vulnerability to climate change is determined by exposure to risks, sensitivity to impacts, and ability to adapt. Adaptation involves adjusting systems in response to actual or expected climate changes to moderate harm or exploit opportunities. There are two types of adaptation: autonomous reactive adaptation and anticipatory proactive adaptation. Estimating future agricultural responses to climate change involves using scenarios to explore possible adaptive measures, as scenarios do not necessarily describe what will actually occur. Biophysical impacts of climate change include changes in crop and livestock conditions, precipitation, water resources, pests, and soil quality. These can result in changes to crops grown, farming types, production, income, employment, GDP contribution, and export earnings.
The document presents an Integrative Framework for aligning National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It identifies linkages between climate adaptation objectives, SDG targets, and national development priorities. The framework provides a process to identify development goals and targets most sensitive to climate change impacts. It then assesses these targets in relation to adaptation options to ensure both development and adaptation outcomes are measured and synergies/tradeoffs between options are evaluated. This helps mainstream climate adaptation as countries work to achieve their NDCs and the SDGs.
Climate change strategies and policies in ethiopia zewdeazewde alemayehu
1) Ethiopia has developed various policies and strategies to address climate change, beginning with provisions in its constitution guaranteeing environmental rights and sustainable development.
2) Key policies and strategies include the National Adaptation Program of Action, Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy, and serving as a leader in international climate negotiations.
3) The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is responsible for coordinating climate change efforts and ensuring the realization of environmental rights defined in the constitution.
The document discusses the complex relationship between environmental sustainability and development objectives. It argues that environmental sustainability is essential for reducing poverty and achieving other development goals. While human needs and environmental concerns are sometimes at odds, requiring tradeoffs to be carefully managed, opportunities exist for "win-win" solutions that align both. Achieving environmental sustainability requires balancing human needs with maintaining functioning ecosystems and limiting pollution, which this report provides guidance on.
Gender equity implies the possibility of different treatments to correct inherent inequalities and measures which, while not necessarily the same, result in equality in terms of rights, benefits, obligations and opportunities. Gender equality signifies that there is no discrimination based on the sex of the person in the allocation of resources or benefits or in access to services mitigate and adapt to climate change, but also the wish to promote gender equity and equality while these people are doing that work.
These views underlie the reflections and proposals presented in this Guide: • Climate change presents new challenges to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
• Climate change is a problem of development and, as such, is affected by two characteristics: inequality and poverty;
• Climate change has numerous causes and effects and must therefore be approached by numerous sectors, stakeholders and disciplines;
• While needs are global, they are more urgent and dramatic for societies living in conditions of greatest inequality and vulnerability;
• In order to fight climate change as effectively as possible, consideration must be given to the gender-specific effects of climate change
This Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change presents principal conceptual and methodological advances on gender relations in the context of climate change, with the overall objective of providing guidelines for actors, practitioners and consumers in this relatively new programme area. It has been prepared through research, analyses and combinations of international frameworks, conceptual and methodological documents, and the compilation of case studies.
The Guide also considers the approaches that consultants take to deal with the topic, as well as views held by organizations and experts in this field. The Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change will facilitate an understanding of the socio-environmental problem as dealt with from an integrated point of view – one provided by the gender equality approach – but its principal contribution will be to provide a more proactive agenda that will make it easier to understand the policies formulated. The document has two sections. The first section, which contains six chapters, deals with the principal gender considerations that must be taken into account in the face of climate change. The first chapter describes the climate change phenomenon, its causes, characteristics, effects and implications for the environment and human societies, particularly in relation to the quest for sustainable development.
On Sunday, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part in a major scientific assessment of climate change. The Report found that the effects of climate change are already visible from the tops of the highest mountains to the deep sea, and that society needs to prepare for a wide range of climate change-related threats during the next few decades.
This document summarizes the key steps and outcomes of a project to develop Sri Lanka's first National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. The project engaged stakeholders across sectors to develop vulnerability profiles, map climate risks, establish strategic priorities, and formulate an adaptation strategy and project pipeline. The strategy identifies five strategic thrusts and aims to mainstream climate adaptation into national planning processes and improve resilience across critical sectors like water, agriculture, and human settlements. Implementation over six years is estimated to cost $450 million. The strategy development process highlighted the need for integrated, multisectoral solutions and broad stakeholder involvement to effectively address climate risks.
General Introduction to the SYR: focus on the Social Science Aspectipcc-media
The document summarizes key topics from the IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report, including:
1) Four main topics covered in the report focusing on evidence of climate change, impacts, projections, and adaptation/mitigation strategies.
2) Risk and uncertainty are important themes, with both high-probability and low-probability/high-impact outcomes producing high risk.
3) Effective decision-making requires considering a wide range of factors beyond economic assessments alone, including ethics, equity, and diverse perceptions of risk.
4) Adaptation is a complex social process that requires recognizing diverse interests and societal contexts. Transformational adaptation may be needed in some cases.
Climate change & disaster risk managment in Pastoral areas by daniel temesgenDaniel Temesgen
This document discusses climate change impacts on pastoral areas in Ethiopia. It outlines that climate change manifests through changes in average conditions like temperature and rainfall, as well as more extreme events. Human activities that emit greenhouse gases are significantly driving climate change. The document then details observed and projected climate trends for Ethiopia, including increasing temperatures, declining and unreliable rainfall patterns, and more frequent droughts and floods. These changes threaten pastoral livelihoods by exacerbating water and food shortages. The document calls for adaptation and mitigation strategies to build resilience and reduce vulnerability of pastoral communities.
The document discusses climate change impacts and adaptation. It begins by introducing climate change and its impacts such as rising global temperatures and sea levels. It then discusses the impacts of climate change on human health, ecosystems, and agriculture. The document defines climate change adaptation as adjusting systems in response to climate impacts. It provides examples of adaptation strategies such as developing more resilient crops and improving weather forecasting technologies. The document concludes by outlining seven steps for climate change adaptation, including ensuring adequate freshwater and adapting to increased heat waves.
This document discusses climate change adaptation in India. It outlines the vulnerability of developing countries like India to climate change impacts due to factors like low human and financial capital. Adaptation measures at policy, technological, and activity levels can help enhance resilience. Accurate cost estimates of adaptation are difficult but essential for allocating resources properly. India's National Action Plan on Climate Change includes eight missions that cover both mitigation and adaptation measures in sectors like agriculture and forestry. Adaptation costs in India have been rising as a percentage of GDP in recent years. Policy initiatives aim to boost rural employment, watershed projects, and infrastructure to aid adaptation.
Climate change and water security concern in agricultureAnoop Shrestha
Climate change poses major challenges for agriculture by threatening food production systems and water security worldwide. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events will reduce agricultural productivity and irrigation water availability. Both adaptation and mitigation measures are needed to increase the resilience of agriculture. Adaptation options include developing hardier crop varieties and more efficient irrigation techniques, while mitigation involves practices like minimum tillage and use of renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Innovation in agriculture, including new technologies and management practices, will be crucial to address the impacts of climate change on food security.
Presentation at the policy roundtable in Kenya, February 2012.
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An overview of the predicted change in energy demand over time, given the projection that economic growth in the emerging and developing countries is not only overtaking growth in the industrialized countries, but that growth rates are poised to continue increasing and will make unsustainable demands on conventional energy resources, and especially fossil fuels unless drastic action, climate action in fact, is taken to address this concern.
Slide presentations developed to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) be used to address climate change, and why ICTs are a crucial part of the solution – i.e. in promoting efficiency, Green Growth & sustainable development, in dealing with climate change and for climate and environmental action. These slide presentations were delivered in February 2011 in Seongnam, near Seoul in Korea.
These presentations were developed and delivered over 2.5 days on the occasion of a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for upcoming Academy modules on ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Abatement. These modules were developed as part of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government leaders developed by the United Nations (UN) Asia Pacific Centre for ICT Training (APCICT), based in Songdo City, in the Republic of South Korea.
These presentations were developed in 2011, and are somewhat out of date, but most of the principles still apply. Module 10, which has been published, does not include much of the information outlined in these presentations, which are fairly technical. They were developed to address a significant gap in understanding of the technical basis of using ICTs for climate action and because there is a clear bias in development circles against the importance of dealing with climate change mitigation in developing countries. These presentations are an attempt to redress this lack and are published here with this purpose in mind.
The author, Richard Labelle, is presently working on updating these presentations to further highlight the importance of addressing climate change and the important role that technology including ICTs, play in this effort.
Presented by Giriraj Amarnath at the National Workshop on “Use of Space Based Information for Disaster Management” Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 17, 2014
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)FAO
This document discusses Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). It defines DRR as reducing disaster risks through analyzing and managing causal factors, reducing exposure to hazards, lessening vulnerability, improving land and environment management, and preparing for adverse events. CCA is defined as adjusting systems in response to actual or expected climate impacts to moderate potential damages or benefit from opportunities. The document outlines international processes and agendas for DRR and CCA and priorities for action. It discusses rationales for and barriers to harnessing synergies between DRR and CCA, and approaches to facilitate their integration, such as improved access to climate information and risk governance.
A presentation provided to the conference "Food Security & Climate Change in Africa" - by Mr. William Chadza, director of the Malawian Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy, that was organised by Self Help Africa and hosted by the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at University College, Dublin, as part of the programme of activities to mark 'Africa Day', in May 2010. Mr. Chadza was unable to attend the conference at the last minute owing to travel difficulties.
Climate Resilient Pathways, Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Developmentipcc-media
Climate-resilient pathways combine adaptation and mitigation strategies to achieve sustainable development goals despite climate change impacts. They involve iterative risk management by assessing vulnerabilities, reducing risks through actions that consider climate trends and the development context. Pursuing climate-resilient pathways requires resources, practices, awareness and capacity like innovation, institutional support, technology sharing, and adaptive management. Challenges include weak governance and continued high emissions without development changes. Factors for success involve strong institutions, appropriate resources and technology, and ongoing monitoring to improve resilience over time.
This document appears to be notes from a meeting on drought and wildfire between Western governors and White House officials. The agenda includes presentations on drought and wildfires, followed by discussion. The document outlines various federal efforts to address drought, including disaster assistance for workers, water conservation programs, strategic investments, and fire preparedness. It also discusses the impacts of drought on forests and unsustainable increases in wildfire suppression funding.
This document discusses the connections between plastic pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. It argues that plastic pollution has become a planetary crisis due to the huge quantities of plastic entering the oceans each year. Most plastic pollution is invisible in the form of microplastics and nanoplastics that have broken off from larger debris. The production and degradation of plastic drives greenhouse gas emissions and is a major contributor to climate change. It also harms biodiversity through entanglement, ingestion and the introduction of toxic chemicals into ecosystems. The document calls for policymakers to address plastic pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss together as interconnected crises that threaten the stability of the planet.
Climate change , it's impacts and adaption in NepalPrajjwalKoirala
Changing climate always has been a necessary topic and its a real thing happening around us. Its impact is seen in many field. But this slide mainly focuses on the agriculture faculty of climate change. And how Nepal is adapting to its impacts.
Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation in Agriculture in context to Changin...Abhilash Singh Chauhan
- Agriculture is an important sector for India, contributing 17.32% to GDP and providing livelihoods for 54.6% of the population.
- Climate change is causing rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events that are negatively impacting agricultural production in India. Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector, such as from livestock, rice cultivation, and fertilizer use, are also contributing to climate change.
- Both adaptation and mitigation strategies are needed to address climate change in agriculture. Adaptation involves making crops, livestock, and farming practices more resilient to climate impacts. Mitigation focuses on reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions through practices like improved cropland management, livestock management,
Vulnerability to climate change is determined by exposure to risks, sensitivity to impacts, and ability to adapt. Adaptation involves adjusting systems in response to actual or expected climate changes to moderate harm or exploit opportunities. There are two types of adaptation: autonomous reactive adaptation and anticipatory proactive adaptation. Estimating future agricultural responses to climate change involves using scenarios to explore possible adaptive measures, as scenarios do not necessarily describe what will actually occur. Biophysical impacts of climate change include changes in crop and livestock conditions, precipitation, water resources, pests, and soil quality. These can result in changes to crops grown, farming types, production, income, employment, GDP contribution, and export earnings.
The document presents an Integrative Framework for aligning National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It identifies linkages between climate adaptation objectives, SDG targets, and national development priorities. The framework provides a process to identify development goals and targets most sensitive to climate change impacts. It then assesses these targets in relation to adaptation options to ensure both development and adaptation outcomes are measured and synergies/tradeoffs between options are evaluated. This helps mainstream climate adaptation as countries work to achieve their NDCs and the SDGs.
Climate change strategies and policies in ethiopia zewdeazewde alemayehu
1) Ethiopia has developed various policies and strategies to address climate change, beginning with provisions in its constitution guaranteeing environmental rights and sustainable development.
2) Key policies and strategies include the National Adaptation Program of Action, Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy, and serving as a leader in international climate negotiations.
3) The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is responsible for coordinating climate change efforts and ensuring the realization of environmental rights defined in the constitution.
The document discusses the complex relationship between environmental sustainability and development objectives. It argues that environmental sustainability is essential for reducing poverty and achieving other development goals. While human needs and environmental concerns are sometimes at odds, requiring tradeoffs to be carefully managed, opportunities exist for "win-win" solutions that align both. Achieving environmental sustainability requires balancing human needs with maintaining functioning ecosystems and limiting pollution, which this report provides guidance on.
Gender equity implies the possibility of different treatments to correct inherent inequalities and measures which, while not necessarily the same, result in equality in terms of rights, benefits, obligations and opportunities. Gender equality signifies that there is no discrimination based on the sex of the person in the allocation of resources or benefits or in access to services mitigate and adapt to climate change, but also the wish to promote gender equity and equality while these people are doing that work.
These views underlie the reflections and proposals presented in this Guide: • Climate change presents new challenges to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
• Climate change is a problem of development and, as such, is affected by two characteristics: inequality and poverty;
• Climate change has numerous causes and effects and must therefore be approached by numerous sectors, stakeholders and disciplines;
• While needs are global, they are more urgent and dramatic for societies living in conditions of greatest inequality and vulnerability;
• In order to fight climate change as effectively as possible, consideration must be given to the gender-specific effects of climate change
This Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change presents principal conceptual and methodological advances on gender relations in the context of climate change, with the overall objective of providing guidelines for actors, practitioners and consumers in this relatively new programme area. It has been prepared through research, analyses and combinations of international frameworks, conceptual and methodological documents, and the compilation of case studies.
The Guide also considers the approaches that consultants take to deal with the topic, as well as views held by organizations and experts in this field. The Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change will facilitate an understanding of the socio-environmental problem as dealt with from an integrated point of view – one provided by the gender equality approach – but its principal contribution will be to provide a more proactive agenda that will make it easier to understand the policies formulated. The document has two sections. The first section, which contains six chapters, deals with the principal gender considerations that must be taken into account in the face of climate change. The first chapter describes the climate change phenomenon, its causes, characteristics, effects and implications for the environment and human societies, particularly in relation to the quest for sustainable development.
On Sunday, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part in a major scientific assessment of climate change. The Report found that the effects of climate change are already visible from the tops of the highest mountains to the deep sea, and that society needs to prepare for a wide range of climate change-related threats during the next few decades.
This document summarizes the key steps and outcomes of a project to develop Sri Lanka's first National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. The project engaged stakeholders across sectors to develop vulnerability profiles, map climate risks, establish strategic priorities, and formulate an adaptation strategy and project pipeline. The strategy identifies five strategic thrusts and aims to mainstream climate adaptation into national planning processes and improve resilience across critical sectors like water, agriculture, and human settlements. Implementation over six years is estimated to cost $450 million. The strategy development process highlighted the need for integrated, multisectoral solutions and broad stakeholder involvement to effectively address climate risks.
General Introduction to the SYR: focus on the Social Science Aspectipcc-media
The document summarizes key topics from the IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report, including:
1) Four main topics covered in the report focusing on evidence of climate change, impacts, projections, and adaptation/mitigation strategies.
2) Risk and uncertainty are important themes, with both high-probability and low-probability/high-impact outcomes producing high risk.
3) Effective decision-making requires considering a wide range of factors beyond economic assessments alone, including ethics, equity, and diverse perceptions of risk.
4) Adaptation is a complex social process that requires recognizing diverse interests and societal contexts. Transformational adaptation may be needed in some cases.
Climate change & disaster risk managment in Pastoral areas by daniel temesgenDaniel Temesgen
This document discusses climate change impacts on pastoral areas in Ethiopia. It outlines that climate change manifests through changes in average conditions like temperature and rainfall, as well as more extreme events. Human activities that emit greenhouse gases are significantly driving climate change. The document then details observed and projected climate trends for Ethiopia, including increasing temperatures, declining and unreliable rainfall patterns, and more frequent droughts and floods. These changes threaten pastoral livelihoods by exacerbating water and food shortages. The document calls for adaptation and mitigation strategies to build resilience and reduce vulnerability of pastoral communities.
The document discusses climate change impacts and adaptation. It begins by introducing climate change and its impacts such as rising global temperatures and sea levels. It then discusses the impacts of climate change on human health, ecosystems, and agriculture. The document defines climate change adaptation as adjusting systems in response to climate impacts. It provides examples of adaptation strategies such as developing more resilient crops and improving weather forecasting technologies. The document concludes by outlining seven steps for climate change adaptation, including ensuring adequate freshwater and adapting to increased heat waves.
This document discusses climate change adaptation in India. It outlines the vulnerability of developing countries like India to climate change impacts due to factors like low human and financial capital. Adaptation measures at policy, technological, and activity levels can help enhance resilience. Accurate cost estimates of adaptation are difficult but essential for allocating resources properly. India's National Action Plan on Climate Change includes eight missions that cover both mitigation and adaptation measures in sectors like agriculture and forestry. Adaptation costs in India have been rising as a percentage of GDP in recent years. Policy initiatives aim to boost rural employment, watershed projects, and infrastructure to aid adaptation.
Climate change and water security concern in agricultureAnoop Shrestha
Climate change poses major challenges for agriculture by threatening food production systems and water security worldwide. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events will reduce agricultural productivity and irrigation water availability. Both adaptation and mitigation measures are needed to increase the resilience of agriculture. Adaptation options include developing hardier crop varieties and more efficient irrigation techniques, while mitigation involves practices like minimum tillage and use of renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Innovation in agriculture, including new technologies and management practices, will be crucial to address the impacts of climate change on food security.
Presentation at the policy roundtable in Kenya, February 2012.
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1. Climate Change and Adaptation: Where do we go from here?
Dr. Sarah Ahmed1
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda , Vadodara, India. E-mail: sarahmed77@gmail.com
ABSTRACT: Climate Change is a global phenomenon however the impact of climate change differs in different regions and in
different countries according to the individual climatic characteristics of different countries and also due to its individual;
economic and social and terrestrial conditions. The adaptation measures then would differ in order to address the individual
circumstances .However the main sectors that are normally affected in all developing countries and particularly in countries of
South Asia are: agriculture, water resources, human health, ecosystem and biodiversity and coastal zones. While efforts are being
made for mitigation measures, it is imperative and urgent that action for adaptation to th4e already changing climate is taken up
to develop adaptive capacity of the vulnerable poor in India and most South Asian countries. Adaptation measures aim at
reducing the risks and negative impacts of climate change by developing adaptability and adaptive capacity of stakeholders
involved, particularly the vulnerable groups who may not be adequately endowed to grapple with the adverse impacts. There is a
need to incorporate adaptation measures in national and international planning and policy measures in such a way that they
effectively supplement the natural adaptation capabilities built in the natural system. While much efforts are underway in some
Asian countries, yet effective action needs to be taken in order to overcome the constraints due to poor resource base ,
inequalities in income, weak institutions and limited technology which inhibits efforts to adapt to extreme events like droughts,
floods, cyclones ,decrease in crop yields and risks of hunger and malnutrition, vector-born diseases. The present paper is an
attempt to assess the measures for adaptation taken so far and throw light on the policy action that can be taken particularly at the
local level for effective adaptation with special focus on India.
Keywords: Climate Change, Adaptation, Policy, India, South Asia,
1. INTRODUCTION
Climate change with its varied ramifications has posed many challenges to the type of natural environment that different human
societies around the world are accustomed to. In the context of South Asian countries the variability in the climatic conditions
like variations in temperature, precipitation and consequent changes in hydrological cycle an also ocean tides can disturb the
society and economy which is primarily based on sectors like agriculture, fishery and forestry. Due to variations in temperature
some regions would become water scarce while other regions could experience floods. IPCC [2001] predicts more intense
precipitation events to be very likely in many areas while increased summer continental drying in future. Climate change leads to
vulnerability and thus carries the potential to increase inequities in sectors like food, water and health especially in regions where
problems like poverty, illiteracy and unemployment are widespread
1.1 Importance of Adaptation Measures in Developing Countries
Developing countries located in arid and semi-arid regions are very prone to high climate variability and therefore the frequency
and magnitude of inequities in terms of health status or access to food and water can be higher [IPCC 2001]. Developing
countries in arid and semi-arid regions most often lack development and have low potential for employment. The people are
mostly dependent on agriculture as their primary source of livelihood and there is low level of human and financial capital. Under
such circumstances irregularities or variations in rainfall can become very critical to their survival. The number of rainy days or
the onset of the rainy season may provide critical thresholds for success or complete failure of any farming activity. A study by
Holger Hoff [2004](page 7) mentions that “temperature increases alone, without any water related effects, can also reduce
agricultural yields severely or even exceed the tolerance limits of plants, so that they cannot be grown more(possible critical
threshold)”. Such eventualities can restrict the capabilities of the local inhabitants to grapple with changes in climate and to
ensure their sustainability. Therefore adaptation measures become very important in order to increase their resilience and
adaptive capacity. Adaptive capacity is the potential or ability to adjust in order to minimize negative impacts and maximize any
benefits from changes in climate. Effective adaptation measures can strengthen existing coping mechanisms and assets targeting
climate change vulnerability with specific measures and integrating vulnerability reduction as an objective in policies and
planning. It should be noted that early pro-active adaptation measures to tackle the onset of climatic changes are more cost-
effective than re-active short term emergency measures
2. ADAPTATION MEASURES
Adaptation measures can be of various types. Generally they can be grouped in the following categories:
1. Policy measures adopted by Governments to adapt to a particular local situation and minimize the adverse impacts of Climate
Change by providing the base to enhance the human capital and financial strength of the people.
2. Technological and structural measures: these usually are measures which innovate production process through efficiency in
production so that less of a resource is used to produce more such as technology that could use less water in agriculture to
1
2. produce more or using drought resistant seeds for crops or by substituting environment friendly resources. Rainwater harvesting
to supplement water supply and injection wells to enhance groundwater recharge are other examples.
3. Change of use, activity or location in response to climatic changes: A switchover to new employment generating activities or
migration to other places in search of livelihood, change in traditional dietary habits, etc.
4. Monitoring and forecasting: These include short term forecasting systems for floods, early warning systems to help implement
emergency responses, telemetric warning systems, routine sea-surface temperature measurement and also other meteorological
parameters like temperature, air pressure, humidity etc. for early forecasting of famine and droughts.
5. Risk sharing: This can be done successfully through insurance which can help spread climate risks over larger population or
over larger geographical areas. This is especially important in a developing economy with agriculture orientation as it can help
reduce risks and protect farmers against floods, droughts, pest attacks and such other risks. Insurance schemes which are weather
based can be very effective in agriculture based country like India. These schemes have weather index like rainfall, temperature,
humidity, crop yields rather than actual losses to design the insurance products. Administrative costs of such insurance products
are also low as it does not deal case-by case losses or damage assessment need be done. Index insurance can provide simple cost
effective coverage to small farmers.
2.1 Funding Resources for Adaptation Measures
Adaptation measures can prove to be very costly. Moreover it involves equity aspects too as the sufferers are usually not the
contributors to the adverse effects of climate change. Therefore the developing countries expect the developed countries to fund
the adaptation measures. As incorporated in the Bali Action Plan and the UNFCCC, Funds are created to provide financial
resources to the developing countries for adaptation measures. “But experts generally agree that the current amount of available
funding for adaptation programs woefully fails to meet projected costs. The UNDP calculates that by 2015, adaptation will cost
nearly $86 billion a year. A World Bank estimation puts that number closer to $100 billion. Yet, less than $150 million per year
is currently set aside for adaptation programs, representing a mere 14% of all available climate change funds. The Accord,
however, put adaptation needs of developing countries on an equal basis with mitigation. It calls for initial funds to reach $10
billion annually through 2012, increasing to $100 billion per year by 2020.”[ACCRN Newsletter, Issue 1 page 2,Feb 2010]
2.2 Adaptation Costs
The total costs of climate change consists of 3 parts: the costs of mitigation, i.e. reducing the extent of climate
change; e.g. limit the overall temperature increase to 2o C; the costs of adaptation i.e. reducing the impact of climate
change; e.g. invest in coastal protection to limit the negative impacts of 2 o C warming; and the residual impact cost
that can neither be mitigated nor adapted to e.g. accept the loss of certain coastlines because they cannot be defended
at reasonable costs.
In addition to making provisions for funding adaptation measures, it is necessary to estimate the costs of adaptation
for each project. Adaptation costs would be additional costs to development initiatives to maintain the pre-climate
change welfare levels. This also poses the economic question of how much to adapt since it involves allocation of
resources to adapt to climate change while also meeting other needs. The following table gives welfare proxies for
different sectors
Table 1 Welfare proxies for defining Sectoral adaptation costs
Sector Welfare proxy
Infrastructure Level of services
Coastal zones Optimal level of protection plus residual damage
Water supply and flood management Level of industrial and municipal water availability ; availability
of flood protection
Agriculture Number of malnourished children and per capita calorie
consumption
Fisheries Level of revenue
Human health Health standard defined by burden of disease
Forestry and ecosystem services Stock of forests; level of services
Extreme weather events Number of deaths and people affected
Source: Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change study team.
Accurately estimating the costs of adaptation for different sectors in the face of uncertainty about the exact climate change
scenario is difficult. Therefore policy makers need to have accurate information and data for any particular sector at any
particular location. Therefore disaggregated data collection is an essential requirement for effective adaptation.
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3. 3. ADAPTATION POLICY MEASURES IN INDIA
India has about 127.3million hectares [38.8%] of its geographical area under arid and semi-arid region. India is highly committed
in its efforts mitigate the adverse effects of climate change as well as take proactive steps for adaptation to increase resilience and
capacity to deal with any adverse impacts due to climate change already underway without sacrificing economic development.
The National Environment Policy was announced in 2006 which is framed to mainstream environmental aspects in all
development activities. It also envisages implementing adaptation measures to tackle the adverse impact of climate change. In
June 2008 India announced its National Action Plan on Climate Change. The Plan covers eight broad areas through its National
Missions which takes care of both mitigation and adaptation measures. These eight national missions are:
1. National Solar Mission
2. National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
3. National Mission on Sustainable Habitat
4. National Water Mission
5. National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
6. National Mission for a “Green India”
7. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
8. National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change
Each of these Missions has a technology development and R&D component.
3.1 Method of implementation
The implementation of these missions is envisaged to be carried out under the concept of public private partnership after a
thorough and wide-ranging consultative process involving all stakeholders, including Central Ministries and agencies, State
Governments, business and industry, civil society and community level organizations and representatives. While Missions like
National Solar Mission and the Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency take care of mitigation measures, Missions for
sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem and Sustainable agriculture incorporate measures for adaptation. Many other rural
employment generating schemes e.g. the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act [NREGA], also take care of adaptation and
resilience to climate change. In the case of NREGA, the employment generating work which can be undertaken include several
types which help adaptation to climate change such as water conservation and harvesting, drought proofing through afforestation
and tree planting, renovation of traditional water bodies and flood control and protection works like building check dams and
bunds.
3.2 Community Based Adaptation Measures:
A number of Non-Governmental Organizations [NGOs] have been working with vulnerable communities for many years . For
example Utthan has been working for over two decades in Gujarat to initiate sustainable processes of empowerment among the
vulnerable sections in the drinking water sector enabling the communities to protect the water resources to meet their drinking
water needs. It has also developed its Coastal Area Development Program in Bhavnagar and Amreli districts. Likewise Mahiti is
also a people’s organization working in coastal Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar cities of Gujarat on issues like drinking water,
savings and credit among women, improving agricultural land, health, natural resource management and disaster prevention.
These are just two of the innumerable NGOs who are working on issues which in a way link to adaptation measures. However, in
the context of extreme climate change scenarios and the need for adaptation measures in many areas, it is imperative that we go a
step further and try to integrate the efforts and resources and implement the adaptation measures in a more equitable and balanced
manner. For this a more disaggregated information and data at the grass-roots is essential. For example a field study conducted by
Ahmed Sarah[2007]in Chhota Udepur taluka of Gujarat revealed that the inhabitants of villages like Sursi and Danoli face
scarcity of water and the women usually adapt to this situation by reducing water intake which can have deteriorating effect on
their health. It also has adverse impact on food security and other income generating activities like sheep rearing and poultry
keeping.
3.3. Successful Adaptation Policy Action
Accurate and disaggregated data is absolutely essential for successful adaptation measures and for effective cost-benefit analysis.
While NGOs and Government agencies as well as public-private partnership initiatives are doing a commendable job, there is
still a lack of balanced approach towards addressing all villages and/or talukas. It would be worthwhile to involve academic
institutions to conduct surveys for assessing the adaptation needs of the various sectors. A public-academic-community policy
action would give a fair idea about how much to adapt and which sectors should be given priority and in which areas/regions.
Training workshops to train the trainers is essential so that survey instruments are formulated accurately to get the desired data.
Training workshops to train the trainers is essential so that survey instruments are formulated accurately to get the desired data..
This too would involve expenditure and therefore adequate funding resources should be generated.
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4. 4. CONCLUSIONS
Adaptation to climate change is absolutely essential as a proactive measure so that adaptive capacity of the vulnerable sections
both in the urban and rural areas is enhanced. Adaptation involves huge costs for which developed countries should cooperate to
make the funds available. Another imperative is accurate data regarding vulnerabilities owing to variability in climatic
conditions. Therefore collection of disaggregated and accurate information is absolutely essential. Only then can we expect to go
ahead with firm steps to face the adverse impacts of climate change with some degree of positivism and practical policy
measures.
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