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Confronting Climate Change and Land Degradation in Viet Nam Increasing Finance for Sustainable Land Management
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 19:40Year:
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The Asia and Pacific Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ) and the Asia and Pacific Desk of the Global Mechanism (GM ) of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD ) have been working together to articulate adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change as a means of strengthening sustainability of project interventions and to mobilize supplementary funding from climate change financing mechanisms to scale up pro-poor sustainable land management (SLM) activities.
Viet Nam is highly vulnerable to climate change.
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa – Building a comprehensive national approach in Rwanda
Submitted by JulianneBG on Wed, 2010-06-09 03:06
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The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has been designed to support the long-term efforts of 21 targeted countries to further develop their capability to successfully identify, design and implement holistic adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes that are aligned with national development priorities.
Project Components:
To strengthen institutional, individual and systemic capacity to address climate change risks and opportunities through a national approach to adaptation in Rwanda.
Expected Outputs:
To address the identified problems and root causes underlying the CC and CCA problematic in Rwanda, a suite of proposed responses will be implemented. Adaptation alternative scenarios include the following:
* **Output 1**: Dynamic, long-term planning mechanisms to cope with the inherent uncertainties of climate change introduced.
* **Output 2**: Leadership and institutional frameworks to manage CC risks and opportunities in an integrated manner at the local and national levels strengthened
* **Output 3**: Climate-resilient policies and measures in priority sectors implemented.
* **Output 4**: Financing options to meet national adaptation costs expanded at the local, national, sub- regional and regional levels.
* **Output 5**: Knowledge on adjusting national development processes to fully incorporate climate change risks and opportunities generated and shared across all levels.
The Rwanda project has the following expected outcomes:
1. Establishing an enabling policy framework to support an effective system for environment management and ecosystem conservation.
2. Strengthening capacity at national, district and community levels to restore and protect ecosystems of national and global importance against potential degradation.
3. Enhancing economic productivity using natural resources in an environmentally friendly way.
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Mr. John Musemakweri
Program manager
john.musemakweri@undp.org
Mr. Henri Esseqqat
Program Officer
henri.esseqqat@undp.org
US prepares for climate burden
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Nature News
Jeff Tollefson
It hasn't always been easy to get the White House to lead on climate change, so for years the question of how to incorporate global warming into long-range planning and public infrastructure in the United States has fallen to cities, states and individual federal agencies.
