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Solomon Islands - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Sat, 2009-06-20 02:09Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
- Agriculture/Food Security
- Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
- Water Resources
- Public Health
- Disasters
Potential Adaptation Measures
Agriculture and Food Security
- Improve and conserve soils
- Develop new crops
Water Resources
- Increase water supply, e.g. by using groundwater, building reservoirs, improving or stabilizing watershed management, desalination
- Improve or develop water management
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
- Protect, including building sea walls, and beach nourishment
Nauru - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Sat, 2009-06-20 00:51Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
- Agriculture/Food Security
- Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
- Public Health
Potential Adaptation Measures
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
- Develop Integrated Coastal Zone Management
- Develop planning/new investment requirements
- Protect, including building sea walls, and beach nourishment
- Retreat
- Research/monitor the coastal ecosystem
Gabon - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:43Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
- Agriculture/Food Security
- 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
- Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation
- Develop and introduce policy measures, including taxes, subsidies, facilitation of free market
Water Resources
- Increase water supply, e.g.
Comoros - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:22Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
- Agriculture/Food Security
- 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
- Improve pest and disease forecast and control
Water Resources
- Increase water supply, e.g.
Cameroon - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:13Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
- Agriculture/Food Security
- Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
- Public Health
- Land Resources
Potential Adaptation Measures
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
- Protect, including building sea walls, and beach nourishment
- Retreat
- Research/monitor the coastal ecosystem
Cambodia - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:12Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
- Agriculture/Food Security
- Coastal Zone
- Forestry
- Public Health
Potential Adaptation Measures
Agriculture - Options to adapt to climate change in the agriculture sector include:
- (i) development of new high yielding varieties;
- (ii) improvement of crop management and cultural 1 Special Report on Emissions Scenario, A2 family. The SRES scenarios has four qualitative story lines that yield four sets of scenarios called "families": A1, A2, B1 and B2.
