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Enlarging the perspective on climate services GFCS Water exemplar

This workshop aims to promote international cooperation in ocean science, improve governance of ocean resources, and address climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. Topics include sustainable coastal management, biodiversity, and disaster risk reduction.

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Enlarging the perspective on climate services GFCS Water exemplar

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  1. Enlarging the perspective on climate servicesGFCS Water exemplar Albert Fischer Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Workshop on Climate Services at the National Level for the Caribbean,Port of Spain, 29-31 May 2013

  2. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO • Promote international cooperation and coordinate programmes in ocean science • Apply knowledge for improvement of management and governance of ocean Capacity development

  3. IOC objectives and actions • Prevention and reduction of the impacts of natural hazards • Mitigation of the impacts of and adaptation to climate change and variability • Safeguarding the health of ocean ecosystems • Promoting management procedures and policies leading to the sustainability of coastal and ocean environment and resources

  4. Ocean and climate variability and change World Ocean Review

  5. Global Ocean Observing System IOCARIBE-GOOS

  6. IOC/UNESCO as enabler of climate services

  7. IOC/UNESCO as user of climate services • Integrated Coastal Area Management • Ecosystem-based management (LMEs)

  8. Climate as only one factor in management issueCumulative human impact on marine ecosystems Halpern et al., Science, 2008

  9. Climate as only one factor in management issueCLME Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis • Large Marine Ecosystem (GEF) goal: improve management of shared living marine resources • CLME analysis of priority transboundary problems: • Unsustainable exploitation of fish and other living marine resources • Habitat degradation and community modification • Pollution • Climate variability/change has a small profile now but this may grow: • coral health: temperature and acidification • changing fish habitat

  10. UNESCO networks as users of climate services • Integrated Coastal Area Management • Methodologies for national implementation in reducing risk and improving resiliency at the coast: hazards, erosion • Biosphere reserves • Man in the Biosphere programme: conservation and sustainable use • (fresh) Water • International Hydrological Programme: use of science to create applications for water management • World Heritage site managers • preservation of natural and cultural heritage

  11. UNESCO contributing to social dimensions of climate services • Reducing vulnerability and increasing resiliency to climate variability and change – while meeting other societal goals • Indigenous knowledge and climate adaptation • Community-based approaches • Ethical dimensions • Management of Social Transformations • What are the barriers to using climate information? • Education • Education for Sustainable Development: increasing civil capacity • Disaster risk reduction

  12. Climate services must align with other societal goals • At a national level: push the UN and development agencies to coordinate and align to your priorities and agenda • But experiment with the opportunities

  13. UNESCO in the GFCS User Interface • Water

  14. GFCS Water exemplar • Water management and climate variability and change • standard tools to assess and manage water-related risks: assume constant climate and rely on historical observations • Water managers will have key role in climate adaptation strategies • challenge: large uncertainties • Establishing interactions between climate service developers and water managers • scientific and operational levels

  15. GFCS Water examplarWater User Interface Platform • Dialogue between providers and users • feedback, needs, monitoring and evaluation • Building climate literacy in water management community, and • Building water sector literacy in climate service providers • Challenges • lack of understanding/literacy by water managers • mismatch in scales: climate projections and water catchments • management processes designed around historical data, not ready to take in operational data

  16. GFCS Water examplarPrincipal areas of activity planned • National and regional (river basin) pilot projects to develop flood and drought management plans • Climate-tools-for-water-managers collection of methodologies to deal with uncertainties • Education and training programmes at regional and national levels, through strengthened agency collaboration • Helpdesk function to support water user interaction at national level

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