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Modern Day Uab (3rd Prize- Water, Climate & Action)
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2011-01-14 05:22
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A film combining animation and interviews about traditions and local beliefs about climate change, and actual local actions for climate change adaptation.
Carpa Diem (The Water Channel: 2nd Prize-Water, Climate & Action)
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Tue, 2011-01-18 23:50
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An apartment. Bedtime. A little girl lovingly watches a fish (a carp) swimming in an aquarium, while her younger brother is playing in the bathroom, listening to music and letting the water run in the sink. A waste of water that could turn into a tragedy...
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Pilot project on water and climate change adaptation in the Chu Talas River
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, UNECE, OSCE, National Water Committees in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: Water Resources Committee under the Ministry of Agriculture, Kyrgyzstan: Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Processing Industries (MAWR), Kazakhstan: Water Resources CommitteeSummary:
Climate change may threaten livelihoods, economic development, human health, water resources, and thus security. Water resources will be directly affected by climate change through changes in the hydrological cycle. Moreover such impacts on water resources will have a cascading effect on other sectors such as agriculture (decreased availability of water for irrigation, coupled with increased demand), energy (reduced hydropower potential and cooling water availability), recreation (water-linked tourism), fisheries and navigation.
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This project will increase the adaptive capacity of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and of the Chu-Talas Commission to ongoing and future climate change impacts, ensure coordination of adaptation actions in the Chu-Talas basin and thereby help to prevent possible negative effects on regional security.
Expected Outputs:
- Common scenarios and models agreed upon by the riparian countries assessing the expected climate change impacts on water resources; - Joint vulnerability assessment for the respective basin, including environmental, social and economic vulnerability and the security implications; - Proposal for the procedures to be employed by the Joint Commission to tackle uncertainty related to climate change and maintain needed level of cooperation and benefits sharing; - Proposal for coordinated measures to be taken in the specific basin enabling climate change adaptation, including cost-benefit assessment and environmental impact assessment.
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Natalia Alexeeva UNDP. natalia.alexeeva@undp.org
Sonja Koeppel UNECE, sonja.koeppel@unece.org
Project Status:
Under implementation
The Importance of Population for Climate Change Challenges and Solutions
Submitted by population on Thu, 2010-04-15 20:30Year:
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Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It has been historically driven by an atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated mostly by the industrialized world. The consequences of climate change—more intense hurricanes and typhoons, rising sea levels, drought, heat waves, major disruptions to agriculture—will be felt by communities around the world.
Population trends play an important role in the larger context of economic, technological, and social trends that affect the climate system.
Babeldaob Water Supply Project
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Asian Development BankSummary:
With the exception of the water supply servicing Koror and Airai States, water supply systems in Palau are operated and maintained by the state government. The water supply to Airai and Koror is operated and maintained by the Public Works Department (PWD) and supplies water to approximately 64% of Palau's population. Based on 2005 census data, the population of Palau is growing annually at about 1.4%. However, the proportion of the population living in the Koror-Airai urban area has declined from 71% in 1995 to 64% in 2005.
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1. Development of a secure water source,
2. Bulk transport of water from source to existing water supply network
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ADB Contact:
Emma Ferguson
Email: eferguson@adb.org
Tel: +6793318101Project Status:
Under Implementation (as of March 2011)
Programmes for Water Safety Plans in PDMCs
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-01-13 10:24Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
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The AusAID-funded 'Programme for Water Safety Plans in Pacific Island Countries' (PICs) will promote development and implementation of a ‘catchment to consumer’ risk-management approach to safe drinking water for both urban and rural Pacific communities. The Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are implementing the programme in collaboration with PICs and development partners.
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AusAID
Brian Dawson
Email: brian.dawson@ausaid.gov.au
Paul Mitchell
Email: paul.mitchell@ausaid.gov.au
Vulnerability assessment and risk level of ecosystem services for climate change impacts and adaptation in Moroccan oases
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A methodology will be developed that combines strong ground- and remote sensing based data layers including climate data and socio-economic attributes to assess risk-levels of climate change (CC) potential vulnerabilities and their consequences at local and sub-regional scales for time horizons extending the next 10-15 years. Results will provide detailed adapted analysis into local to regional CC and important metrics required as input for mapping vulnerability and risk based on changes in surface energy, carbon and water balances in large regions of Southern Morocco.
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Analyze ecosystem vulnerabilities using remote sensing observations, climate data and socio-economic attributes to develop results of clear value for integrated assessments of global change impacts in the subtropical ranges of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Derive realistic site-to-region-specific climate change outcome scenarios based on projections from the IPCC Fourth Assessment (IPCC, 2007). These climate changes outcome scenarios will include guidelines derived from current understanding of uncertainties in the climate projections and will be adapted to observed historical regional climate indicators. This will allow vulnerability assessments based on probability and guidelines following international standards. Derive region-specific vulnerability assessment with risk level maps to climate change for selected major ecosystem services such as land use and cover change, water resources and surface fresh water availability, agricultural production, forest cover and carbon sequestration, nature-based tourism.
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Name: Mohammed Messouli
Email: messouli@gmail.comProject Status:
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