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Integrated Adaptation Programme to Combat the Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural Production and Food Security in Central African Republic
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of EnvironmentSummary:
In order to respond to the greatest and most immediate threats of climate change, the government of CAR prepared a National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA), which prioritized a number of interventions that should enhance the adaptive capacity of the agriculture sector. These include: promoting drought-adapted seeds, rehabilitation of degraded land, establishment of an early warning system.
Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-07-07 12:47
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Tropical forests hold several goods and services used by forest-dependent people as safety nets to traverse difficult periods of resource supply. These same goods and services are constantly surrounded by emerging markets linking remote communities with major urban centers nationally and internationally. How these markets affect adaptation remains unclear.
Tackling climate change in the refugee Chad camp area in eastern Chad
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNHCRSummary:
UNHCR and its partners, including the Chad government, are addressing the effects of climate change with programmes aimed at better management of dwindling water resources and at holding back desertification by planting trees in one of the driest and hottest countries on earth.
Contacts:
Andrej Mahecic
Senior Information Officer
UNHCR Geneva
Phone: +41 22 739 86 57
Mobile: +41 79 200 76 17
E-mail: mahecic@unhcr.orgProject Status:
Under implementation
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2010-06-22 14:56Year:
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How emerging markets affect adaptation remains unclear. This paper examines the roles of markets in non-timber forest products that normally serve as safety nets for forest communities, and the implications for climate change adaptation in the Congo Basin. For more information read the Full Article.
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Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Congo (Brazzaville)
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Ministry of Sustainable Development of Forest Economy and Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Land Management and IntegrationSummary:
The Republic of the Congo ranks 136 on the 2009 Human Development Report. Congo has signed and ratified the UNFCCC. Congo’s socio-economic and political history renders it vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Climatic conditions in the Congo’s vary from sub-equatorial to humid. As a result of climate change, the Republic of Congo is likely to face an increase in annual temperatures, a decrease in the dry season and an increase in annual average rainfall.
Project Components:
To mainstream climate change adaptation into core development policy, strategies and plans of the Republic of the Congo.
Expected Outputs:
The government of the Republic of Congo has set out the following adaptation measures to combat the effects of climate change:
Output 1: Dynamic, long-term planning mechanisms to manage the inherent uncertainties of climate change introduced
- Identify gaps and generate the critical information to inform adaptation planning.
- Strengthen the technical capacity of key experts on climate change adaptation (CCA).
Output 2: Leadership capacities and institutional frameworks to manage climate change risks and opportunities in an integrated manner at the local and national levels strengthened.
- Strengthen the institutional framework to manage climate change risks.
- Strengthen CCA capacity within the key institutions.
- Strengthen and pilot local CCA leadership and capacity building.
Output 3: Climate-resilient policies and measures in priority sectors implemented.
- Review and revise policy, strategy, legislation and investment decisions.
- Support and implement on-the-ground demonstration projects.
Output 4: Financing options to meet national adaptation costs at the local, national, sub-regional and regional levels expanded.
- Strengthened financial development framework on climate change.
- Financial instruments assessed and strengthened.
- Strengthen capacity to access international funding for adaptation.
Output 5: Knowledge on adjusting national development processes to fully incorporate climate change risks and opportunities generated and shared across all levels.
- Climate change knowledge and lessons learned disseminated.
- Strengthen awareness and understanding of climate change and adaptation.
- Establish technical and scientific research programmes.
Contacts:
Ms. Mame Dagou Diop
Regional Technical Advisor
Climate Change Adaptation
Email: Mame.diop@undp.orgProject Status:
Under implementation
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - São Tomé and Príncipe
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP and Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, Sao Tome and Principe (MRNEA)Summary:
The Human Development Report for 2009 ranks Sao Tome at 131. São Tomé and Príncipe has signed and ratified the UNFCCC. As a member of the small islands group of states, São Tomé and Príncipe’s geographical disposition increases its vulnerability to the effects of climate change. São Tomé and Príncipe is richly endowed with water resources and a dense tropical forest which on the other hand, is badly damaged, leaving future generations at a disadvantage.
Project Components:
São Tomé and Príncipe has the institutional and individual capacity to address climate change risks and opportunities through a national approach to adaptation.
Expected Outputs:
São Tomé and Príncipe will adopt the following plan of action to reduce risks associated with climate change:
Output 1: Dynamic, long-term planning mechanisms to cope with the inherent uncertainties of climate change introduced.
- National stakeholders generate and apply critical information for improved and climate-resilient decision making.
- Created climate change adaptation multi-stakeholder platform on Climate Change Adaptation to advise on Activity Result 1 and other programme activities.
Output 2: Strengthen leadership and institutional frameworks to manage Climate Change risks and opportunities at local and national levels.
- Strengthened leadership and technical capacities of national government in addressing CC risks and opportunities.
- Created climate change adaptation multi-stakeholder platform on climate change adaptation, and design strategy for best Climate Change coordination platform for lessons learned.
Output 3: Climate Change proof national and sectoral policies, and design, test and implement priority Climate Change measures.
- Implemented climate-resilient policies in priority sectors.
- Implemented four pilot activities in Lobata region.
Output 4: Financing options to meet national adaptation costs expanded at the local, national sub-regional and regional levels.
- Market-based, fiscal, financial and/or other instruments assessed and designed for facilitating dynamic adaptation to climate change.
- Investigated and explored pilot of microfinance activities on Climate Change that support adaptation.
Output 5: Generate and share across the African continent knowledge on adjusting national development processes to incorporate climate change risks/opportunities.
- Key institutions document, disseminate, and influence policy and programmatic responses for adaptation in priority sectors.
- Set up peer-review learning-in-action programmes to generate and disseminate new knowledge on adaptation to climate change
Project Status:
Under implementation
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Gabon
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
PNUD et le Ministère des Eaux et Forêts, de l’Environnement et du Développement DurableSummary:
Le littoral Gabonais représente un atout économique, social et écologique majeur pour le pays, puisque c’est là que se concentrent la majorité des populations, des infrastructures et des investissements. L’espace côtier est également un lieu de convergence entre tous les secteurs de l’économie, et recèle d’importantes resources écologiques.
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Promouvoir la mise en place d’un cadre institutionnel de gestion de la zone côtière qui permette un développement résilient pour le Gabon
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Pour obtenir une réponse approprié a ces effets, le gouvernement a mis les mesures suivants en place;
Output 1: L’établissement de mécanismes dynamiques de planification à long terme pour gérer les risques inhérents aux changements climatiques.
- Renforcement de la capacité de suivi climatique.
- Mise en place d’un système d’alerte précoce pour les inondations.
Output 2: Renforcement du leadership et des cadres institutionnels régissant la gestion intégrée des risques climatiques.
- Réactualisation des outils réglementaires et législatifs gouvernant l’utilisation du territoire en zone côtière.
- Renforcement des administrations en vue de la planification intégrée.
Output 3: Mise en place de politiques et mésures adaptées.
- Des mécanismes de lutte contre l'érosion côtière sont mis en place.
Output 4: L’exploration d’options de financement permettant de couvrir les coûts de l’adaptation.
- Des mécanismes de financement pour l'adaptation au niveau local, régional et national sont identifiés et mis en place.
Output 5: La genèse et dissémination des connaissances pertinentes à l’ajustement des processus de développement nationaux.
- Lancement d’un plan de sensibilisation et de mobilisation sociale
Contacts:
Ms. Mame Dagou Diop
Regional Technical Advisor
Climate Change Adaptation
Email: Mame.diop@undp.orgProject Status:
En éxecution
Sharing community knowledge of climate change through oral histories in post-conflict Angola
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This project will gather “oral histories” on local-level memories of climate variability and climate change as a proxy to obtaining meteorological and other environmental data. The project will also capture local perceptions and indigenous knowledge about environmental adaptation that have occurred over three and a half decades of conflict.
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Equatorial Guinea - Country-level Climate Data Summary
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2009-12-03 07:20
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These country-level climate data summaries were prepared with funding from the UNDP National Communication Suport Programme (NSCP) and the UK government Department for International Development (DfiD) in order to address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections made available through the WCRP CMIP3. A consistent approach has been applied for 52 developing countries in order to produce an 'off the shelf' analysis of climate data, and also make available the underlying data for each country for use in further research.
For more information: UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles
For each of the 52 countries, a report contains a set of maps and diagrams demonstrating the observed and projected climates of that country as country average timeseries as well as maps depicting changes on a 2.5° grid and summary tables of the data. A narrative summarises the data in the figures, and placing it in the context of the country's general climate.
A dataset containing the underlying observed and model data for that country, is made available for use in further research projects. The files are smaller and more manageable than the global fields made available by the PCMDI, and in text format which can be easily downloaded, read and manipulated.
Source: University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment. Accessed on 3 December 2009 at: http://country-profiles.geog.ox.ac.uk/.
Chad - Country-level Climate Data Summary
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2009-12-02 03:33Summary:
These country-level climate data summaries were prepared with funding from the UNDP National Communication Suport Programme (NSCP) and the UK government Department for International Development (DfiD) in order to address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections made available through the WCRP CMIP3. A consistent approach has been applied for 52 developing countries in order to produce an 'off the shelf' analysis of climate data, and also make available the underlying data for each country for use in further research.
For more information: UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles
For each of the 52 countries, a report contains a set of maps and diagrams demonstrating the observed and projected climates of that country as country average timeseries as well as maps depicting changes on a 2.5° grid and summary tables of the data. A narrative summarises the data in the figures, and placing it in the context of the country's general climate.
A dataset containing the underlying observed and model data for that country, is made available for use in further research projects. The files are smaller and more manageable than the global fields made available by the PCMDI, and in text format which can be easily downloaded, read and manipulated.
Source: University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment. Accessed on 3 December 2009 at: http://country-profiles.geog.ox.ac.uk/.
