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The AIACC Project Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change. Neil Leary, AIACC Director UNFCCC COP-10 Buenos Aires 07 December 2004. Background. GEF enabling project climate change focal area Geographic scope: Global Implementing Agency: UNEP
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The AIACC ProjectAssessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change Neil Leary, AIACC Director UNFCCC COP-10 Buenos Aires 07 December 2004
Background • GEF enabling project • climate change focal area • Geographic scope: Global • Implementing Agency: UNEP • Executing Agencies: START & TWAS • Collaboration between IPCC, UNEP, START, TWAS and developing country institutions
Sources of Funding • Global Environment Facility • Developing countrypartner co-financing • USAID • CIDA • USEPA • Rockefeller Foundation
AIACC Objectives • Build scientific and technical capacity to support National Communications and developing country participation in int’l science • Advance scientific understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation opportunities • Link science and policy communities for adaptation planning
Means for achieving objectives • Implement regional V&A assessments • “Learning-By-Doing” capacity building • Supplement by technical support, mentoring, training, and networking • Engage stakeholders • Work with National Communications • Synthesis • Workshops, publications, science & stakeholder meetings
Overview of Regional Assessments • Africa: 11 projects • Health (1), Agriculture/food security (7), water resources (5), land use (3), biodiversity (3), rural livelihoods (3), climate system (2) • Asia: 5 projects • Agriculture/food security (4), water resources(4), land use (3), aquatic/wetland ecosystems (2) • Latin America: 5 projects • Agriculture/food security (3), water resources (3), land use (1), livelihoods (2), coastal zones (3), fisheries (1), extreme events (2) • Small Island Developing States: 3 projects • Health (1), coastal zones and their resources (2), water resources (2), tourism (1)
Some of the Methods of AIACC Projects • Climate scenario generation • Climate risk spaces • Vulnerability indicators • Livelihood approaches • Integrated assessment modeling • Benefit/cost analysis of adaptation
The AIACC Data, Methods and Synthesis Website http://www.aiaccproject.org http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/aiacc
Most Accessed Resources • Synthesis page: Summarizes and synthesizes the AIACC projects' research methodologies and results • Toolkit: Descriptions of software and computer models that are useful in impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability assessments • Methods: Summarizes the AIACC projects' methods for impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability assessment • Bibliography: Contains close to 1,000 citations to journal articles, reports, working papers, websites, data, and software applications addressing climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability