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Climate, Energy and Pollution Program World Resources Institute wri

Adaptation – learning from case studies for adaptation policies and sustainable development Habiba Gitay World Resources Institute hgitay@wri.org. Climate, Energy and Pollution Program World Resources Institute http://www.wri.org. What I want to cover…. Human activities.

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Climate, Energy and Pollution Program World Resources Institute wri

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  1. Adaptation – learning from case studies for adaptation policies and sustainable developmentHabiba GitayWorld Resources Institutehgitay@wri.org Climate, Energy and Pollution ProgramWorld Resources Institute http://www.wri.org

  2. What I want to cover…. Human activities Multiple pressures Responses Impacts: Ecosystems, ecosystem services, human well-being Natural and human capital Use this approach to for case studies

  3. Human activities Population/demographic Consumption/production Technological changes

  4. Human activities LULCC ^GHG

  5. Human activities LULCC Air pollution, aerosols ^GHG Pers org poll Strat ozone dep

  6. Human activities LULCC Air pollution, aerosols ^GHG Pers org poll Strat ozone dep Climate change

  7. Human activities LULCC Air pollution, aerosols ^GHG Pers org poll Strat ozone dep Climate change Changes in biodiversity Land degradation Water degradation

  8. Land degradation Climate change changes in Biodiversity Water degradation strong medium weak Linkages…. Between Climate change, Land degradation, water degradation and loss in biodiversity

  9. Human activities LULCC Air pollution, aerosols ^GHG Pers org poll Strat ozone dep Climate change Human well-being Environment sustainability -ve Changes in biodiversity Land degradation Water degradation

  10. Ecosystem Services The benefits people obtain from ecosystems • Provisioning • Goods produced or provided by ecosystems • food • fresh water • fuel wood • fiber • biochemicals • genetic resources • Regulating • Benefits obtained from regulation of ecosystem processes • climate regulation • disease control • flood control • detoxification • Cultural • Non-material benefits obtained from ecosystems • spiritual • recreational • aesthetic • inspirational • educational • communal • symbolic • Supporting • Services that maintain the conditions for life on earth. • Soil formation • Nutrient cycling • Pollination

  11. Human activities LULCC Air pollution, aerosols ^GHG Pers org poll Strat ozone dep Climate change Human well-being Environment sustainability -ve Changes in biodiversity Land degradation Water degradation Responses to reverse trends and meet sust dev goals Responses

  12. Human activities LULCC Air pollution, aerosols ^GHG Pers org poll Strat ozone dep Climate change Human well-being Environmental sustainability -ve Changes in biodiversity Land degradation Water degradation Economic Legal & institutional Social & behavioural Science, tech & transfer

  13. Response options for developing policies • Economic • Legal and institutional • Social and Behavioural • Science, technology, technology transfer • All of these can be part of adaptation

  14. What is our approach….. • Multiple stages • Initial stage – a set of case studies focused on water and agriculture in specific landscapes • Ask a series of questions to analyse what is happening on the ground before going into future planned adaptation (network..)

  15. Our approach….a series of questions • What is the status of the ecosystems, ecosystem services and human well-being? • What are the multiple pressures that affect these landscapes and human societies? • How do individuals/households, formal and informal institutions respond to these pressures including climatic extremes? • What are the projected changes? (scenarios..) • Can the present responses cope with future changes? Adaptation –short-term, medium and long-term

  16. Our approach….scenario and their uses • Scenario development • Aspiration of people at local level • Sustainable development plans at state/regional/national level • projections of how pressures (LULCC, population, consumption patterns) are changing, Climate change projections

  17. Our approach… future stages… • Awareness raising • Information – generation and dissemination • planning and decision-making • private sector??? • Tools and methods (maybe) • Resources

  18. So in conclusion • Work in specific landscapes/watersheds • Pilots, learning by doing; understand present • Inclusion of multiple pressures • Climate change exacerbating them – may be dominant in future

  19. In conclusion • Consider ecosystem services and tradeoffs between them in space and time • Consider developing scenarios/storylines • Use “adaptation” as a vehicle for addressing multiple pressures and maybe indirect drivers (root causes) and moving towards sustainable development

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