Solomon Islands - National Communication

Summary:
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

Summary:
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

Summary:
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

Summary:
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

Summary:
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

Summary:

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.