Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and response strategies

Table 2 presents the priorities and needs for adaptation in key vulnerable sectors in various developing regions.

Adaptation measures should be focused on efficiency and conservation.

These adjustment measures are often adopted without carefully examining their social impact.

It was noted that a broad approach to adaptation should be taken by addressing the transfer of technologies for adapting to climate change as well as technologies to reduce the impact of response measures.

Some Parties have included adaptation measures in their national action plans and or national environmental action plans as a first step towards implementation of adaptation, and others have reported that some legislative changes would help facilitate incorporation of climate change adaptation in the future.

The Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures had to be rendered effective and provided with sufficient resources.

Many Parties also mentioned measures that would enhance adaptive capacity in general.

Some Parties discussed and evaluated the costs of adaptation measures for various scenarios of sea level rise, and estimated the opportunity costs of undertaking no adaptation measures.

Item 4 (c) Development and transfer of technologies Item 4 (e)(i) Implementation of the Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures (decision 1 CP.10)

Responses revealed the positive progress made so far by all actors involved in the NAPA process, which can be seen in the fact that most LDC Parties are engaging in more advanced steps of the NAPA process.

Special support measures would be necessary to allow small island developing States to adapt to the circumstances that would follow graduation.

Methodologies for vulnerability assessment, reporting in national communications, research and systematic observation, funding issues, adaptation technologies, addressing adverse effects of climate change, and impacts of response measures.

The Age of Adaptation

On the other hand, in the context of an unfavourable economic environment, the structural adjustment measures recommended by the Bretton Woods institutions have contributed to a suspension of recruitment in the public sector.

One participant underscored the need to establish ways to communicate the implementation of adaptation measures and risk reduction to insurance companies in order to see these actions reflected in insurance premiums and conditions.

On the consumption side, recent adjustment measures have increased wages of miners and soldiers more than other workers, leading to differences in purchasing power.

The dialogue table thereby provides a model for Governments to address social and employment impacts of measures to mitigate or adapt to climate change through employment transition measures to care for workers and communities displaced by these changes.

Adjusting to globalization

Other countries, such as Greece, needed to have a full blown crisis in order to prompt such adjustment measures, whereas Britain was acting prudently and preemptively.

So, even as some northern countries begin to question the austerity prescription, their southern counterparts (including southern European countries) are increasingly adopting fiscal adjustment measures.

The adoption of the Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures (decision 1 CP.10) was a major step forward, although questions remain concerning implementation and financing.

Adapting to Climate Change

Adapting to the circumstance.

of the Kyoto Protocol (FCCC KP CMP 2005 3 Add.2)

5. Takes note of the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth session, and calls for their implementation, in particular decision 1 CP.10, entitled Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures'

The Buenos Aires conference had produced important results, in particular the programme of work on adaptation and response measures, and the seminar of governmental experts held in Bonn in May 2005.

To preserve the livelihoods of farmers and support the growing world population, adaptation and mitigation measures are both essential responses in planning for climate change.

Takes note of the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth session,6 and calls for their implementation, in particular decision 1 CP.10, entitled Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures

Why China Can t Adjust

(d) Stimulating adaptation research and technology

Failure to adapt amounts to regression.

In conjunction with its regular meetings, the LEG has conducted interactive sessions with national NAPA teams of host countries.

He mentioned plans for an online database of adaptation options to share local knowledge and endogenous adaptation techniques.

Asians constantly adapt and change.

(d) Supply side adjustments.

The Adaptation Fund Purpose The Adaptation Fund was created to assist developing country parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change to meet the costs of adaptation.

A high degree of strategic adaptability.

I wondered. Can I really call this land a second home? My thoughts were interrupted by the taxi driver s voice.

This process of structural adjustment is still going on.

Needs for technologies for adaptation to climate change

(b) The consequences of not adapting to climate change

There was an urgent need for adaptation.

While the main focus has been on the impact of climate change mitigation on industrialized countries, the urgent adaptation needs of the world s poorest countries, in the face of possible catastrophe, have largely been ignored, at least in terms of concrete measures.

But phasing in austerity more gradually, and thus back loading the adjustment, would have posed less risk to the economy s anemic recovery while maintaining a credible commitment to fiscal consolidation.