What of the large advanced countries? For historical reasons, the policy mindset is less flexible and adaptive.

The main challenges of decentralized forest management include building a process that is sufficiently flexible to adapt to different municipal situations and one that can enhance local democracy.10 In Scotland, there has been a transfer from state to local control.

America has the flexibility, capacity, and leadership to adapt to the new rules for pursuing diplomacy, but Europe simply does not.

I have finally given up trying to cope.

Southern Resilience

The Chair of the LEG presented the LEG's approach towards the implementation of NAPAs as input to the informal pre sessional LDC Fund consultations, which took place in Bonn, Germany, on 13 and 14 May 2005.

Endogenous technologies for adaptation to climate change

They are ready to adapt to new conditions.

Review of draft national adaptation programmes of action

What Is Resilience?

Flexibility to make changes.

Environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change

Underinvesting in Resilience

The work programme for the second term of the LEG (2004 2005) was developed at the fifth meeting of the group, and was endorsed by the SBI at its twentieth session.

At its eighth meeting, the LEG identified the following topics as possible areas for discussion should such a joint workshop take place

Specific modulus is a materials property consisting of the elastic modulus per mass density of a material.

Institutional and legal frameworks Political situation in the country Institutional arrangements for those adaptation activities involving many stakeholders Level of synergy between the projects and state structures Commitment of implementing agencies Commitment of stakeholders Organizational capacity to provide benefits to targeted population Implementing capacity at the community level Cultural factors.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

But austerity can never be self defeating for the external adjustment.

Institutional and managerial reforms required to adapt to changing dynamics of service delivery

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

Innovation requires processes of adaptation, anticipation and openness to change.

In that way, there would always be an opportunity to adjust to changing circumstances and to evolving needs.

Potential technical and financial difficulties faced by least developed country Parties in implementing their national adaptation programmes of action

Institutional capacity, including limitations in Accessibility of project sites due to climatic, geographic and infrastructural conditions (inappropriate vehicles, bad roads, etc.) Socio economic data and technical tools (e.g. access to and execution of biophysical and socio economic models) Capacity of institutions holding and managing databases Scientific, technical and institutional capacity to implement projects.

Her delegation appreciated the flexibility shown by the delegation of Japan.

When changes to a habitat occur rapidly, animals do not have time to adjust.

Feedback from the least developed countries on the national adaptation programme of action process On the margins of the twenty first sessions of the subsidiary bodies and the tenth session of the COP, the coordinator of the LDC Group, with support from the secretariat, circulated to the LDC delegates attending the session a questionnaire on the status of their NAPA preparation.

Prior to its eighth meeting, the LEG also provided technical guidance and advice to NAPA teams from Pacific LDCs that were represented at the subregional workshop on NAPA preparation in Tarawa, Kiribati.

A follow up questionnaire was administered to LDC delegates on the margins of the twenty first sessions of the subsidiary bodies and the tenth session of the COP.

For starters, making a system very resilient in one way can cause it to lose resilience in other ways.

First recommendations include synthesizing project proposals and sharing best practices, identifying regional synergy, providing facilitation platforms between implementing agencies and NAPA teams, providing advice and guidance to bilateral donors on NAPA implementation, and considering a joint meeting with the EGTT and the CGE to explore issues relating to implementation.

Building and maintaining resilience requires probing its boundaries.

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

Systems and procedures are designed for flexibility, rapid response and functionality.

Noting that the SPA projects are designed to show how adaptation planning and assessment can be practically translated into projects that will provide real benefits, she summarized SPA projects in Kiribati, Colombia, the Caribbean, and Africa.

In this regard the CGE, through the secretariat, invited LEG members to provide feedback on the training material developed for the CGE hands on training workshop on vulnerability and adaptation assessments for the Africa region, held in April 2005 in Maputo, Mozambique.

However, some difficulties in preparing the NAPAs still remain.

Negotiations with the World Bank on programmatic financial and public sector adjustment loans.

Contributions of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group to the national adaptation programme of action process

Adaptive governance (flexible, distributive, and learning based).

But resilience itself is neither good nor bad.