ALM UNDP

Summary:

Key Vulnerabilities

• Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
• Water Resources
• Public Health

Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

• Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
• Switch to different cultivars
• Improve and conserve soils
• Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation
• Agricultural research and transfer of technology
• Develop new crops
• Develop early warning systems and disaster preparedness
• Improve pest and disease forecast and control

Water Resources

• Increase water supply, e.g. by using groundwater, building reservoirs, improving or stabilizing watershed management, desalination
• Decrease water demands, e.g. by increasing efficiency, reducing water losses, water recycling, changing irrigation practices
• Develop and introduce flood and drought monitoring and control system
• Improve or develop water management

Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems

• Develop planning/new investment requirements
• Protect, including building sea walls, and beach nourishment
• Research/monitor the coastal ecosystem