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Social impacts of climate change in Bolivia: a municipal level analysis of the effects of recent climate change on life expectancy, consumption, poverty and inequality
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Thu, 2011-10-27 06:46
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This paper analyzes the direct evidence of climate change in Bolivia during the past 60 years, and estimates how these changes have affected life expectancy and consumption levels for each of the 311 municipalities in Bolivia. Contrary to the predictions of most general circulation models, the evidence shows a consistent cooling trend of about 0.2°C per decade over all highland areas, slight and scattered evidence of warming in the lowlands, and no systematic changes in precipitation.
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Flooded Bolivia faces long-term water woes
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Source: Reuters AlertNet / Jon Stibbs
BOGOTA (AlertNet) - Widespread flooding in Bolivia, which prompted the government to declare a national emergency last week, shows the vulnerability of one of South America's poorest countries to changing weather patterns linked to climate change.
The Cost to Developing Countries of Adaptation to Climate Change: New Methods and Estimates - The Global Report of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Wed, 2010-08-04 20:39Summary:
Abstract: _This initial study report, which focuses on the first objective, finds that the cost between 2010 and 2050 of adapting to an approximately 2oC warmer world by 2050 is in the range of $75 billion to $100 billion a year. This range is of the same order of magnitude as the foreign aid that developed countries now give developing countries each year, but it is still a very low percentage of the wealth of countries as measured by their gross domestic product (GDP).
The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
Submitted by MelOliveros on Thu, 2010-01-07 23:27Summary:
The World Bank is working with seven pilot countries—Bangladesh, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Samoa and Vietnam on a new study—the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change. The study is funded by the Governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Switzerland and will help inform the international community’s efforts to provide new and additional resources to developing countries through a better understanding of the global costs of adapting to climate change. It will also help decision makers at the national level to better cost, prioritize, sequence and integrate robust adaptation strategies into their development plans and budgets in a context of high uncertainty, competing needs and limited financial resources.
While national governments have to protect their most vulnerable people and identify financing mechanisms to make their countries resilient to climate change, these costs of adapting to climate change are not known.
Pilot Program for Climate Resilience
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-11-24 05:18Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
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The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is the first program under the Strategic Climate Fund. It aims to provide incentives for scaled up action and transformational change in integrating consideration of climate resilience in national development planning consistent with poverty reduction and sustainable development goals.
It will provide additional financial resources to help fund public and private sector investments identified in climate resilient development plans.
Pilot Country presentations from the October 26 and 27 PPCR Pilot Country Meetings are now available online.
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The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is designed to provide programmatic finance for national climate resilient national development plans. The PPCR aims to provide transformational and scaled-up support for both the development and implementation of such plans.
Furthermore, its purpose is to provide lessons over the next few years that might be taken up by countries, the development community, and the future climate change regime, including the Adaptation Fund.
This experience will be gained through scaled-up interventions covering the full range of sectors and sources of financing, and with sufficient resources to move quickly from planning to action.
The PPCR will build upon National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs), will be implemented in a manner consistent with the Paris Declaration of Aid Effectiveness, and will complement existing adaptation funds which continue to serve essential roles in tackling climate change.
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Objectives:
(a) Pilot and demonstrate approaches for integration of climate risk and resilience into development policies and planning;
(b) Strengthen capacities at the national levels to integrate climate resilience into development planning;
(c) Scale-up and leverage climate resilient investment, building on other ongoing initiatives;
(d) Enable learning-by-doing and sharing of lessons at country, regional and global levels.
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The Costs to Developing Countries of Adapting to Climate Change: New Methods and Estimates
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2009-10-28 02:52Year:
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The Costs to Developing Countries of Adapting to Climate Change: New Methods and Estimates
The Global Report of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study - Consultation Draft
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The World Bank is working with seven pilot countries - Bangladesh, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Samoa and Vietnam on a new study, the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change.
Community-Based Adaptation
Submitted by Ajose on Wed, 2009-09-02 01:10Implementing Agency:
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It is increasingly recognized that small communities are likely to be the most severely affected by climate change impacts and yet are least equipped to cope and adapt. This pilot project is designed to implement community-based projects that seek to enhance the resiliency of communities, and/or the ecosystems on which they rely, to climate change impacts. It will essentially create small-scale/policy laboratories and generate knowledge about how to achieve adaptation at the local level.
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Projects will be implemented in areas that are particularly vulnerable to climate change including variability, and where there is high potential to secure global environmental benefits in the context of climate change. Lessons learned from community projects will then be leveraged to promote replication of successful community practices, and integration of lessons learned into policies that promote increased community adaptive capacity. This project will assist in responding to GEF internal needs for concrete experience with local-scale climate change adaptation, as well as the growing needs of countries for ground-level experience and clear policy lessons.
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Enhanced adaptive capacity which allows communities to reduce their vulnerability to adverse impacts of future climate hazards; National policies and programmes designed that include community adaptation priorities to promote replication, up-scaling and mainstreaming of best practices derived from CBA projects; and Cooperation among member countries promoted for innovation in the design and implementation of adaptation to climate change including variability projects and policies.
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- Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
- Technical Advisor, BDP/EEG
- Email: pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
- Tel: +1 (212) 906 6843
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Integrated and Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Amazon River Basin Considering Climate Variability and Climate Change
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, OAS National officeSummary:
###### Background
The Amazon River Basin occupies the entire central and eastern area of South America, lying to the east of the Andes mountain range and extending from the Guyana Plateau in the north to the Brazilian Plateau in the south. The Amazon River, which runs for approximately 7,100 km from its source in Peru to the Atlantic Coast of Brazil, is the world's longest, widest, and deepest river. Its discharge of approximately 210,000 m³ per second exceeds the combined discharge of the world's nine next largest rivers. Its hydrological characteristics are unique.
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* COMPONENT 1) Consolidation of a shared vision for the Amazon River Basin and formulation of a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) for the Amazon River Basin.
* COMPONENT 2) Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resource Management in the Amazon River Basin.
* COMPONENT 3) Forecasting the hydrological impact of climate variation and change and the implications for development.
* COMPONENT 4) Integrated and sustainable management of land and water resources.
* COMPONENT 5) Public participation for integrated management of water resources in the Amazon River BasinExpected Outputs:
To strengthen the institutional framework for planning and executing, in a coordinated and coherent manner, activities for the protection and sustainable management of the land and water resources of the Amazon River Basin, endeavoring to realize a shared vision for sustainable development in the region, based upon the protection and integrated management of transboundary water resources and adaptation to climatic changes.
* i. Make progress toward the integrated management of land and water resources, and adaptation to climatic variation and change, through more effective decision-making by the relevant national institutions, based upon the forecast impacts of climatic variations and changes on land and water resources.
* ii. Strengthen the shared strategic vision for the Basin as the basis for integrated land and water resource planning and management, adaptation to climatic change, and sustainable development.
* iii. Strengthen the technical-institutional structure for the identification of land and water resources at risk of environmental impairment (critical areas or “hot spots”) in order to recommend measures, plans, and projects to protect and/or rehabilitate them and, in association with in the responsible institutions in each country, initiate remedial measures.
* iv. Generate more knowledge about the types and sources of water pollution in the Basin, monitor them, and attack their root causes.
* v. Assess the vulnerability of ecosystems and local communities to climatic variations, particularly droughts, analyzing adaptation options to altered flows in the glacial headwater areas and other vulnerable regions.
* vi. Make progress toward the harmonization of legal framework, the development of economic instruments, technical and institutional capacities, and public participation and involvement for the management of land and water resources in the Basin.
* vii. Strengthen the TCA Secretariat as an effective coordination agency for countries in the Basin in the short-, medium-, and long-terms.To strengthen the institutional framework for planning and executing, in a coordinated and coherent manner, activities for the protection and sustainable management of the land and water resources of the Amazon River Basin, endeavoring to realize a shared vision for sustainable development in the region, based upon the protection and integrated management of transboundary water resources and adaptation to climatic changes.
* i. Make progress toward the integrated management of land and water resources, and adaptation to climatic variation and change, through more effective decision-making by the relevant national institutions, based upon the forecast impacts of climatic variations and changes on land and water resources.
* ii. Strengthen the shared strategic vision for the Basin as the basis for integrated land and water resource planning and management, adaptation to climatic change, and sustainable development.
* iii. Strengthen the technical-institutional structure for the identification of land and water resources at risk of environmental impairment (critical areas or “hot spots”) in order to recommend measures, plans, and projects to protect and/or rehabilitate them and, in association with in the responsible institutions in each country, initiate remedial measures.
* iv. Generate more knowledge about the types and sources of water pollution in the Basin, monitor them, and attack their root causes.
* v. Assess the vulnerability of ecosystems and local communities to climatic variations, particularly droughts, analyzing adaptation options to altered flows in the glacial headwater areas and other vulnerable regions.
* vi. Make progress toward the harmonization of legal framework, the development of economic instruments, technical and institutional capacities, and public participation and involvement for the management of land and water resources in the Basin.
* vii. Strengthen the TCA Secretariat as an effective coordination agency for countries in the Basin in the short-, medium-, and long-terms.Contacts:
Isabelle Vanderbeck, Task Manager
Telephone: 254-20-624339
Email: isabelle.vanderbeck@unep.orgProject Status:
ApprovedPrimary Beneficiaries:
Local communities
Sustainable Management of the Water Resources of the la Plata Basin with Respect to the Effects of Climate Variability and Change
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OAS, Intergovernemtnal Coordinating Committee for the la Plata BasinImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
GEF Trust Fund, GEF IA/ExA, Government, OthersSummary:
###### Background
The la Plata River Basin, extending over some 3.1 million km2, is one of the largest river basins in the world. The Basin’s rivers drain approximately one-fifth of the South American continent. Water and nutrients from the central regions of South America discharge through the la Plata River to the Southwest Atlantic
Large Marine Ecosystem (LME).A large wetland corridor links the Pantanal (in the headwaters of the Paraguay River) with the Delta del Parana, at its outlet to the la Plata River.
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* Component 1) Strengthening basin-wide cooperation capacity for integrated
hydro-climate management, is comprised of three sub-components: Harmonizing the legal and institutional framework; Facilitating stakeholder participation, communications, and education and Monitoring and evaluation.
of the project.
* Component 2) Strategic Action Program formulation, is comprised of three sub-components:Promoting Integrated Basin Management; Implementing pilot demonstration projects and Preparing the Strategic Action Program.
* Component 3) Adaptation to climate change, is comprised of one foundational activity: creating an Integrated Hydrometeorological-climatic Forecasting System at the Basin level to generate meteorological, hydrological and climatic forecasts and scenarios.Expected Outputs:
The goal of this project is to support the initial implementation of the Framework Program, by formulating a Strategic Action Program (SAP)for the la Plata Basin, and creating the institutional and legal framework, and technical capacity for its implementation. The Framework Program integrates on-going projects and programs
executed under the la Plata Basin Treaty coordinated by the Inter-governmental Committee for the la Plata Basin (CIC,) and by bi-national and tri-national committees created under the la Plata Treaty. More particularly, the Program integrates on-going and under-preparation projects supported by the GEF for addressing specific environmental issues. Government investments, private investments, and associated financing are all taken into account within the execution of the Framework Program.The project contributes to a higher objective set forth by the five signatory countries to the la Plata Basin Treaty--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay--as coordination of actions and investment in the la Plata Basin for the sustainable management of its water resources. Consequently, baseline investment is at the essence of this Project.
Finally, the project initiates efforts on adaptation to the Climate Variability and Climate Change, with the ultimate goal of mitigating their negative impacts and capitalizing on the opportunities that they provide. Thus, while coordinating all water management related actions, it introduces adaptation to climate variability and change as a cross-cutting issue, mainstreaming it throughout all projects and actions.
Contacts:
Isabelle van der Beck
Telephone: 202-458-3772
Email: isabelle.vanderbeck@unep.orgProject Status:
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