adaptation strategies
Oxfam is calling for climate change adaptation policies at every level to be gender-sensitive so that they address both women's and men's needs and interests. Only this approach will be effective in building community-wide resilience to climate change, reducing gender inequalities, and so also promoting development.
The Mekong plays an important role in ensuring the well-being of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, as the major river supporting agriculture and many other economic activities in the region. It also brings regular floods to the region which, although sometimes damaging, are an integral part of the lives of many communities in the Mekong River basin. However, in recent...
There is a basis for moving forward on negotiations to achieve emissions cuts:
- The ‘Bali roadmap’ process has been launched, aiming for a long term agreement on emissions cuts, including commitments by the US;
- Future actions by developing countries to reduce emissions are to be supported by scaling up finance, technology and...
Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. A rise in small- and medium-scale disasters is a particularly worrying trend. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. Though more emergency aid is needed, humanitarian response must do more than save lives: it has to link to climate change...
Los desastres climáticos van en aumento a medida que suben las temperaturas y se intensifican las precipitaciones. Uno de los aspectos más preocupantes es la creciente incidencia de los pequeños y medianos desastres. Sin embargo, el clima extremo no es la única causa de los desastres; la pobreza y la falta de poder generan vulnerabilidad. Aunque se necesita m...
Greenhouse gas emissions which are the major contributors to climate change are on the increase in both industrialised and developing countries. This paper indicates key linkages between trade and climate change and reviews how their respective policies interact. Questions are posed as to how trade and climate change can be mutually supportive.
The paper notes that most sectors of...
Climate change scenarios predict impacts in Bolivia that include longer dry seasons and more frequent storms. Can the local population cope with these changes? How resilient are the social systems and local ecosystems? A case study prepared by Intercooperation (IC) for "Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation," an IC/IISD/IUCN/SEI project on climate Change, investigated how Swiss development...
Four conferences of the European Ministers of Forestry have addressed the role of forests as an important economic factor to date, stressing research results and needs, followed their significant contribution in protecting human settlements and infrastructure against natural hazards and providing benefits such as recreation and preservation of ecological diversity. They also focused on...
In the eastern Himalayas, shifting cultivation is the most prominent farming system, providing a way of life for a large number of ethnic minorities and other poor and marginalised upland communities. The policy approach to deal with shifting cultivation is common across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Myanmar, the countries in this study, and aims to replace it with permanent forms of...
Climate change is forcing vulnerable communities in poor countries to adapt to unprecedented climate stress. Rich countries, primarily responsible for creating the problem, must stop harming, by fast cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions, and start helping, by providing finance for adaptation. In developing countries Oxfam estimates that adaptation will cost at least $50bn each year, and far...
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