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Tenure and Climate Change

Tenure and Climate Change. Matt Sommerville , PhD Chief of Party Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) Project 19 February 2014. Climate Change 101. Adaptation: Understanding Climate Impacts. Temperature: Annual/seasonal averages Changes in extreme highs and lows. Water Changes:

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Tenure and Climate Change

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  1. Tenure and Climate Change Matt Sommerville, PhD Chief of Party Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) Project 19 February 2014

  2. Climate Change 101

  3. Adaptation: Understanding Climate Impacts Temperature: • Annual/seasonal averages • Changes in extreme highs and lows Water Changes: • Decreased availability in semi-arid areas • Contraction in snow coverage • Increased heavy precipitation events • Thermal expansion of seas

  4. Tenure Impacts Land-grabbing now prevails in ‘Yolanda’ disaster areas—right groups. Dec 12, 2013 DJ Yap,Philippine Daily Inquirer Typhoon Haiyan Recovery Reveals Important Links Between Climate Change and Improved Tenure Governance Dec 16, 2013; Robert Oberndorf http://www.usaidlandtenure.net/commentary#1692

  5. Drying of Lake Chilwa, Malawi Drying of lake creates increased possibility of overfishing New rules around resource governance required to adapt to changing rainfall patterns

  6. Migration – 25 million to 1 billion by 2050 Werz & Conley, 2012 Extreme events vs slow onset National vs international Seasonal vs long-term Forced vs. voluntary

  7. Planned Adaptation • Vulnerability of poor • Urban adaptation plans • National climate strategies • Changing Value of Land • Increasing • Decreasing “Demolition of the shanties in the coastal community was to protect the environment and the lives of affected residents.” “Omiru said the persistent thunderstorms and attendant rise in the water level occasioned by climate change could result in needless loss of lives in the area.”

  8. Mitigation: Reducing Emissions Low Emissions Development Strategies • Clean Energy • Built Environment • Transport • Industry • Sustainable Landscapes • Forests (REDD+) • Agriculture

  9. Clean Energy & LEDS • Built Environment • Transport • Industry “In the early 1990s, the construction of 300 high dams (above 15 metres) each year had displaced four million people. Urban and transportation infrastructure projects accounted for six million more displaced each year.”

  10. Sustainable Landscapes • Unclear ownership, management, exclusion rights • Forest Conversion and Increased Emissions • Security of Land Tenure • Actors seeking rents • REDD+ • New incentives to own/manage lands

  11. Sustainable Landscapes Carbon Credits • Who owns trees? • Who manages trees? • Who bears the costs of leaving trees standing? • What does it mean to sell a credit? • Who decides?

  12. Sustainable Landscapes • REDD+ not going to solve decades old tenure challenges • Better definition of the challenges • Tenure lens necessary • Milestones • Investment will flow to where tenure is clear

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