Download Adaptation to Climate Change

UN/ISDR Regional Disaster Risk
Reduction Platform Americas
Adaptation under the UNFCCC Process and Its
linkage to Disaster Risk Reduction
Panama City, Panama
17-19 March 2009
Xianfu Lu
Adaptation sub-Programme
Adaptation, Technology and Science Programme (ATS)
UNFCCC Secretariat
[email protected]
http://www.unfccc.int
A brief introduction to…
1.
Adaptation under the UNFCCC and the
Nairobi Work Programme (NWP)
2.
Current status of negotiations on the future
regime
3.
Linkages between climate change adaptation
(CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR)
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1. Adaptation under the Convention process
Complementary Tracks
Implementation
Scientific and
technological
aspects
Future process
AWG-LCA
SBSTA
SBI
1/CP.10
NAPAs
Bali Action Plan
Nairobi work
programme
(up to and beyond
2012)
Financial and Technological Support, Capacity-building
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1. Adaptation under the Convention process
Nairobi Work Programme
on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
(NWP)
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1. Adaptation under the Convention process
Nairobi Work Programme
on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
(NWP)
NWP now has over 130 Partners, including
UN agencies, IGOs, NGOs, CBOs, Research institutes
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1. Adaptation under the Convention process
Nairobi Work Programme
on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
(NWP)
Seven Calls For Action have been issued.
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1. Adaptation under the Convention process
Nairobi Work Programme
on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
(NWP)
To date, 66 Action
Pledges have been
made by 24 partners.
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1. Adaptation under the Convention process
Nairobi Work Programme
on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
(NWP)
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Focus for the second phase (2008 – 2010)
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Promote activities by regional centres and new/existing
networks
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Activities at the national/regional levels
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Activities on education, training and public awareness
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2.
Current status of negotiations on the
future regime
COP13 (2007)
Bali Action Plan (BAP) – launching a
comprehensive process to enable the full,
effective and sustained implementation of the
Convention [to be supported by Ad Hoc
Working Group – Long-term Cooperative
Action (AWG-LCA)]
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2.
Current status of negotiations on the
future regime
• Bali Action Plan (BAP) (1/CP.13)
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A shared vision;
– Enhanced action on mitigation;
– Enhanced action on adaptation;
– Enhanced action on technology development and transfer
to support action on mitigation and adaptation;
– Enhanced action on the provision of financial resources
and investment to support action on mitigation and
adaptation and technology cooperation
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2.
Current status of negotiations on the
future regime
Four components in adaptation deliberations under the
BAP
• National Planning for Adaptation
• Streamlining and scaling up financial and technological
support
• Enhancing knowledge sharing
• Institutional frameworks for adaptation
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2.
Current status of negotiations on the
future regime
COP14 (2008)
•
The “Assembly document”
– Produced by the AWG-LCA Chair from submissions on the
BAP by Parties and organizations;
– Putting all the ideas of Parties and organisations on the table to
facilitate discussions at COP14;
– Updated in-session (FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/16/Rev.1);
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Invited its Chair to prepare 2 documents:
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A document describing areas of convergence in the ideas and proposals from
Parties, to be considered at AWG-LCA5 (March – April 2009);
A negotiating text to be considered at AWG-LCA6 (June 2009)
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2.
Current status of negotiations on the
future regime
AWG-LCA5 (29 March – 8 April)
• Chair’s scenario note and the “component paper” are both
still under preparation
• Examples of convergence arose:
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Recognition of the additional burden of climate change;
The need for national-level, country-driven adaptation;
The link between adaptation and development
The need for financial and technological support and capacity
building; and
The importance of regional centres and risk management
mechanisms
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3. Linkages between CCA and DRR
• Common objective - managing risks through resilience building;
• Common target – vulnerable communities/livelihoods;
• Great need and potential for collaboration and mutual
learning – data/information, methods/tools, practices/processes
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3. Linkages between CCA and DRR
•
DRR is directly linked to discussions on two of the nine
work areas of the NWP: climate-related risks and extreme events;
adaptation planning and practices
•
The successful collaboration between the FCCC
Secretariat and the UN/ISDR on the organisation of the
NWP technical workshop is an encouraging first step in
formalizing the integration of work carried out by CCA
and DRR communities.
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The will to listen and learn is unlimited.
Time is NOT.
[source: The Process documentation, Dialogue on Climate Change
Adaptation for Land and Water Management]
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Thank you
Xianfu Lu
Adaptation sub-Programme
Adaptation, Technology and Science Programme
UNFCCC Secretariat
[email protected]