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Briefing Note #1 Climate Change Adaptation: Why we need Many Strong Voices

Background

In 2004, representatives of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and UNEP/GRID-Arendal began discussing the need for a joint effort to raise awareness about the effects of Climate Change in the world’s most vulnerable regions. Although small in number, the people of the Arctic and SIDS had participated vigorously in a number of international negotiating processes, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Briefing Note #2A Adaptation: Common challenges and strengths in the Arctic and SIDS

Arctic regions and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are directly threatened by climate change, and both regions face unprecedented challenges in confronting the associated impacts on their economies, ecologies, and cultures. Although natural and human environments within and between the two regions differ markedly, the Arctic and SIDS share many characteristics which impose particular constraints to, and offer unique opportunities for, sustainable development and adaptation to global climate c

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In 1992, most countries joined an international treaty on climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concerning means of mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

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Briefing Note # 3 Climate Change in the SIDS and the Arctic

Communities in both the Arctic and SIDS regions have proven adept at adapting to changing conditions in the past; however, research predicts that global climate change will pose new and unprecedented challenges to their adaptive capacity and resilience. The MSV Briefing Note highlights some of the aspects of climate change impacts and adaptation challenges in the Arctic and SIDS

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Briefing Note #2B: Similarities and Differences between SIDS and the Arctic

This MSV Briefing Note provides a Summary Table detailing the common features between the Arctic and SIDS.

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Briefing Note # 5 MSV and Adaptation to Climate Change

While the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol include both voluntary and legallybinding agreements between Governments to progressively reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), there will continue to be an increase in atmospheric concentrations of GHGs for several more decades. This means that impacts of climate change will continue to accumulate.