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Combating Climate Change: Is climate change adaptation out of business?

Combating Climate Change: Is climate change adaptation out of business?. Dhaka, 20 March 2012. Harnessing forests, trees and agroforestry for climate change mitigation Enhancing climate change adaptation Understanding synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Combating Climate Change: Is climate change adaptation out of business?

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  1. Combating Climate Change: Is climate change adaptation out of business? Dhaka, 20 March 2012

  2. Harnessing forests, trees and agroforestry for climate change mitigation Enhancing climate change adaptation Understanding synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation Climate change adaptation and mitigation • Research • component

  3. Adaptation Mitigation Kyoto Protocol UNFCCC Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation Climate change and variability Impacts Mitigation Adaptation Responses

  4. Tropical Wetlands Initiatives for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation (TWINCAM)

  5. Understanding the nature of wetlands, threats and opportunity for CC adaptation and mitigation • Equipping partners with necessary tools • Designing collaborative research • Engaging public and private sectors Capacity building – TWINCAM Project

  6. Wetlands for CC mitigation New finding: Surprisingly large amounts of carbon stored in mangrove forests, especially below ground Mangrove photo Source: Donato et al. (2011)

  7. Global survey – 2011/12 Vietnam India Mexico Costa Rica Ecuador Gabon Mozambique

  8. SB-32 identified the limitation of the IPCC 2006 for GHGs National Inventory SB-34 we organized a Side event to synergize adaptation strategies and measures Invited by IPCC to develop new methodologies for GHGs inventories in wetlands Tropical wetlands for CC adaptation and mitigation in the global agenda UNFCCC Side Event

  9. Wetlands for CC adaptation • Joint CIFOR-CATIE research on tropical forests and climate change adaptation in Honduras influenced the design of one of the first projects ever approved by the UNFCCC’s Adaptation Fund Board • Can we do the same for Bangladesh? • National agencies should be involved  BCAS?

  10. The world mangroves The Sundarbands • The world's largest remaining single block of mangrove (10,000 km2) • Delta front has undergone a net erosion of ~170 km2 of coastal land in the 40 years • Source: Rahman et al. (2011)

  11. CC mitigation has been widely recognized than adaptation Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation is not an option Wetlands have a huge potential for CC adaptation and mitigation Scientific communities see CC adaptation as policy relevant This may encourage business community to play its roles The way forward

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