Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and response strategies

They regard climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation as critical sustainable development issues.

Global hands on training workshop on mitigation assessments

Some participants observed that the workshop provided an excellent opportunity to network with other experts and helped clarify concepts and processes in mitigation assessments.

The SPUR2 suite of models simulates the effects of climate change on grassland ecosystems and cattle production.

Costs associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation already represent an added burden for farmers.

Farmers also adopt other crop management strategies to mitigate climate change impacts.

Many Parties presented the results of analyses of impacts in run off for separate river basins, watersheds or lakes, and other Parties presented qualitative considerations on how projected climate change and sea level rise would affect water availability and quality.

Assessments of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in non Annex I Parties have provided opportunities for highlighting key vulnerable sectors, priorities and needs for adaptation, and also the difficulties gaps and constraints. Parties have also highlighted the fact that they are already

Throughout the sessions, participants had the opportunity to discuss technical concerns relating to mitigation assessments.

This document compiles and summarizes information on various research projects and systematic observation initiatives relating to climate change that are ongoing or under development by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention.

What are catastrophic effects? A three degree centigrade climate change rise that will result in 50 percent species extinction.

Some of the tools introduced at the workshop include COPATH (Carbon Pasture Agriculture Total Harvesting), LEAP (Long range Energy Alternatives Planning system), MARKAL MACRO (Market Allocation Macro Economic Model), ENEP (Energy and Power Evaluation Program) and RETscreen.

Experts who attended the hands on training workshops articulated these requests to ensure that technical support is provided to them after the workshops.

The NCSP of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF).

The Union is firmly committed to urgent global action to mitigate climate change a serious, long term challenge for every part of the world.

The evaluation of technologies for adaptation to climate change includes an integrated assessment that combines numerous elements and has cross sectoral implications.

The group also discussed the scoping note for the preparation of the training materials for mitigation assessments and proposed the following

Given the lack of detailed regional information on climate change impacts, specific predictions and adaptations are difficult to make.

Uganda mentioned that population pressure leads to changes in land use practices that contribute to climate change and climate variability, and projected that impacts of climate change will be severe on densely populated areas.

Saami experience the effects of climate change and exploitation of nature more severely, even though they have done least to cause it.

The training workshop provided the participants with an overview of the concepts, structures, processes and steps in mitigation assessments.

Some Parties also provided a detailed breakdown of research initiatives and results of research studies into climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation.

We all stand to suffer significantly from the effects of climate change, including increased droughts, floods, and other extreme weather conditions.

As witnessed the world over, a natural disaster such as a cyclone, made worse by the effects of climate change, can have a devastating effect on economies and lives.

They also noted that they regard climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation as a critical sustainable development issue.

(iv) To stimulate the development and diffusion of technologies designed to increase the efficiency of resource use or reduce the impacts of drivers such as climate change and nutrient loading

The following are the recommendations provided by the participants to the CGE on organizing and conducting future training workshops

Of critical importance is making sure pollution is included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which look at how to achieve future development sustainably after the current Millennium Development Goals expire this year.

Models and approaches used to assess impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change in key sectors in non Annex I Parties

Although computer models are important, the process of building the capacity of local experts is imperative in the exercise of mitigation assessments At the outset of a modelling exercise, there should be a clear distinction between generating information for the models and the actual work in computer modelling.

(b) The UNIDO financial statements are prepared on the historical cost basis of accounting and have not been adjusted to reflect the effects of changing prices for goods and services.

The frequency, intensity and span of hurricanes and tropical cyclones had increased, with devastating effects on small island developing States, which were innocent victims of global warming and should therefore receive financial and technical assistance to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Whether the impacts of these changes are immediate (urban air pollution) or more slowly evolving (climate change), they affect the well being of people in all nations and all sectors of society.

Mr. William Kojo Agyemang Bonsu, Ghana, said his expectations focused on identifying technologies that can promote both climate change mitigation and adaptation activities.

Models are tools aimed at helping plan future scenarios but they cannot predict what the future will be The following should be considered when choosing the tools for mitigation What are the objectives in using the computer models?

The CGE also continued to strengthen its cooperation with the expert groups under the Convention and the NCSP through exchange of information and training materials.

Research on mitigation included research on new energy sources and renewable energy, energy efficiency, and GHG abatement technologies.

The present paper demonstrates the progress that has been achieved by farmers in mitigating and adapting to climate change effects by increasing the efficiency of their farming practices, reducing emissions, and adopting carbon sequestering practices.

Farmers should also look beyond their own farms, and participate in efforts of the whole rural sector to mitigate climate change.

The original impetus for data archaeology came from the need to recover computerized records of climatic conditions stored on old computer tape, which can provide valuable evidence for testing theories of climate change.

We also reaffirm our commitment to promote and join in the international effort to mitigate climate change, in particular following 2012, bearing in mind the principle of shared but differentiated responsibilities.

At the end of each session, evaluation forms were distributed to participants in order to get feedback on how to improve the organization of future training workshops and on the further development of training materials.

Almost all non Annex I Parties that submitted an initial national communication provided information on their needs and concerns relating to assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.

Many Parties expressed a need for applied research to identify and transfer appropriate technologies to increase crop productivity, and to conduct investigations of the use of drought resistant or salt resistant crop varieties, international cooperation to study possible sources of pest introduction, and methods of biological or chemical control for pests in several regions.