Climate change adaptation strategies for local impact
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Title:
Climate change adaptation strategies for local impact key messages for UNFCCC negotiators
Alternate title:
Technical Paper for the IASC Task Force on Climate Change
Creator:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
ProVention Consortium
Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Centre
Disaster Risk Reduction Program, Florida International University (DRR/FIU) ( summary contributor )
Publisher:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Publication Date:
Copyright Date:
2009
Language:
English

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Climate change ( lcshac )
Risk management ( lcshac )
Food security ( lcshac )
Sustainable development ( lcshac )
Genre:
non-fiction ( marcgt )

Notes

Summary:
This document outlines the IFRC’s strategies for the successful design and implementation of climate change adaptation (CCA) policies as they pertain to proposals to be adopted at the Copenhagen Conference. The document lists 6 strategies for adapting to climate change. First, focus adaptation efforts in the communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. These are communities with livelihoods that are particularly vulnerable to climate-related hazards, those facing food and environmental insecurities, those with weak governance structures, and those that do not have access to resources and capacities necessary for sustainable development. Second, make disaster risk reduction (DRR) a central component of the adaptation process. Both CCA and DRR are based on the notion of proactively building resilience to potential future threats to sustainable development; therefore, it is not possible to effectively do one without doing the other. Third, integrate CCA and DRR into development and poverty reduction planning processes. Sustainable development necessarily involves reducing vulnerability and building capacity to address the risks presented by climate change. Fourth, build capacity for CCA at the local community level. It is critical that we recognize the central role that local communities play in securing their own safety. They have specific knowledge about the climate risks they face and potential means of adapting to them that should be integrated into formal adaptation processes. Fifth, mechanisms for mobilizing financial and technical resources for CCA should be developed at the local level. Sixth, responses to climate-related disasters should be leveraged in order to improve community-based adaptation to climate change and to promote risk reduction. Responses to disasters should be viewed as opportunities to move affected communities towards sustainable development, which entails CCA and DRR. In the Appendices, new text proposals and text amendments to the anticipated Copenhagen Agreement are presented. Particular emphasis is placed on shifting the CCA process away from being an exclusively international and national level phenomenon, towards one that is more inclusive of local actors and communities. Many of the suggested amendments call for increasing the allocation of resources to local governments and the establishment of community social funds for adaptation. ( English )
Subject:
Climate Change and Environment ( French )
Citation/Reference:
(2009). Climate change adaptation strategies for local impact: key messages for UNFCC negotiators. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, ProVention Consortium, Ken Westgate.

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Florida International University
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FI13042549

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