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GLOBAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Saleem Huq IIED Santiago, Chile - 19 November 2007

GLOBAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Saleem Huq IIED Santiago, Chile - 19 November 2007. Key Questions. Adaptation to climate change - not mitigation How is climate addressed in: Policy-making and overarching strategies National/sector planning, Development decision-making,

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GLOBAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Saleem Huq IIED Santiago, Chile - 19 November 2007

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  1. GLOBAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Saleem Huq IIED Santiago, Chile - 19 November 2007

  2. Key Questions • Adaptation to climate change - not mitigation • How is climate addressed in: • Policy-making and overarching strategies • National/sector planning, • Development decision-making, • Regional economic development • Impact assessment procedures (e.g. EIA, SEA) • Etc. • National – Local levels

  3. IIED programme • IIED programme to help interested countries address climate change adaptation in policies, plans & programmes • Initial pilot national workshops (Vietnam & Chile) • Range of stakeholders • Government • Private sector / businesses • Civil society

  4. Key Seminar/Workshop Goals • Determine the extent of awareness of, and share knowledge about, the challenges posed by climate change • Identify what steps the country is already taking or methodsbeing used to incorporate responses to climate change in policy-making and planning, particularly through the role of the official national climate change focal points (highlighting interesting case examples) • Identify opportunities for improvement, key questions that would need to be addressed, possible methods and available skills and capacity

  5. Possible On-Going Programme • Developing resource materials including basic methodological approaches and specific questions for considering climate change adaptation issues • Pilot testing some of these approaches • Evaluation of lessons learned; and possibly • Establishing a website with information and tools for considering climate change adaptation issues in development policies, plans and programs.

  6. Impacts of Climate Change

  7. IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Case of Calgary, Canada

  8. Future Changes in Climate Rainfall • Increased water availability in moist tropics and high latitudes • Decreased water availability and drought in mid-latitudes and semi-arid low latitudes Temperature • Global temperatures are likely to increase by 1.1 to 6.4°C from 1990 to 2100 (best estimates 1.8 to 5.4) Sea level rise • Sea levels are likely to rise in the range of 22-34 cm between 1990 and the 2080s (60/77 largest cities on the coast in LA) Extreme events • More frequent and more intense (droughts, floods); unpredictability (seasons timing)

  9. Impacts of Climate Change on LA • Increased number of floods and droughts • effects on food production, provision of water, viability of ecosystems and environmental services • Glaciers have receded (without precedents in the last 10,000 years) • Entire regions affected by climate change • Plants and animals displaced or perished • Increasing intensity of storms and hurricanes • Shifted vectors for diseases such as malaria or Chaga’s disease to regions where they did not exist • El Niño – more frequent and severe • Positive impacts? – probably only short-term

  10. Examples of Adaptation Needs • To Address Adverse • Glaciar recession • Erratic behaviour of rainfall and temperature • Drought • Flood (riverine and flash flood) • Salinity Intrusion • Impacted Sector • Water Resources • Agriculture, forestry, fishery • Tourism • Human Settlement • Health • Biodiversity • Infrastructure and Industries

  11. Adaptation Need: Scale of Problems and Distribution of Poverty The case of Bangladesh

  12. Approachesto Adaptation to Climate Change National Level • Formulation of National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) – identified immediate and urgent adaptation needs • Creation of a National Committee to facilitate implementation of NAPA • Preparation National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) Report – identified capacity need to meet commitments • Screening of Development Portfolio of Donor Agencies • Partnerships with private sector Sectoral Level • Awareness and Capacity Building on Climate to integrate climate change in the sectoral policy, programme and plan – early stage

  13. Approaches to Adaptation to Climate Change Local Government and Community Level • Local Government need to be brought in as adaptation is very context specific • Non-government Organizations (international and national) have started activities to adaptation Knowledge Gap, Research and Sharing • Effectiveness of existing coping strategiesand practices under warmer climate • Research on links between climate change and other aspect e.g. health • Sharing Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change is going on – IIED and BCAS in association with RING; • Development and testing methodology for CBA

  14. Some general recommendations • Clean and efficient energy • Sustainable urban development • Implement existing agreements on env & dev • Apply new standards for private-sector • Map national vulnerabilities • Support community-based coping strategies and disaster risk reduction • Increase support for small-scale agriculture • Increase support for conserving biodiversity and stop deforestation

  15. Thank You www.iied.org

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