adaptation strategies
Climate change may pose risks and/or create opportunities for development efforts in many countries. The USAID Global Climate Change Team developed this Adaptation Guidance Manual to assist Missions and other partners to understand how climate change may affect their project outcomes and identify adaptation options to integrate into the design for more resilient projects. In developing the...
In its Third Assessment Report (TAR), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that the globally-averaged surface temperature increased 0.6 ± 0.2°C in the 20th century. This trend is expected to persist, with a 1.4 to 5.8°C increase predicted for the current century. Warming will vary by region and be accompanied by significant changes in precipitation, sea...
In Georgia and Alabama, USA, the American Forest Foundation and Longleaf Alliance implement a habitat credit trading system on family forestlands. It aimed to develop a voluntary incentive approach for conservation of non-listed species such as gopher tortoise by generating new income options for private landowners. This was to address the primary causes for gopher tortoise decline...
The article is on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) carbon forestry projects in the Philippines for land management, adaptation to climate variability to secure food sources, and securing additional income for local community. The Tanay Rehabilitation Carbon Project of Laguna de Bay Community Wastershed has been under development for more than three years. The design and implementation of this...
A study, using participatory vulnerability assessment tools, was carried out in Kadampur, and Mirtung villages on the bank of the Baulaha Khola in Nawalparasi District in central inner Tarai, Nepal. Enquiries were based on a checklist prepared in advance and secondary information from other areas in the vicinity was incorporated. The study was able to accumulate information on changes, impacts...
Water management affects our environment, society and culture. Finding solutions to mitigate negative impacts and adapt to different geographical conditions and climate regions, requires an approach that unites sound and unbiased science with social and policy considerations. To meet this challenges the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany launched a major international...
A new coalition of leading UK environmental and social justice groups, convened by Oxfam and nef (the new economics foundation) and including Friends of the Earth and the Royal College of Nursing, says the government cannot choose between tackling poverty and climate change; it must begin to tackle these related issues together and it must take action now.
One in five people in...
A team of Oxfam researchers travelled to the two provinces of Ben Tre and Quang Tri in May 2008 to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they might deal with this in the future.
Main findings from the report:
- Poor men and women in Ben Tre and Quang Tri are already experiencing the...
Climate change is the number one threat to human development. Yet progress towards limiting global warming to below 2°C has not been sufficient.
The global effort required to reduce emissions and support the poorest and most vulnerable people to adapt to unavoidable changes must be based on objective indicators of countries' historic responsibilities for causing the crisis, and...
Climate change does not happen in isolation. It interacts with existing problems and challenges – notably deforestation, soil degradation, declining food security, declining fish stocks – and makes them worse. Adaptation has to start with adaptation to the current climate.
The people of Uganda are highly susceptible to present climatic variations and shocks. Building...
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