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Terrestrial Protected Area and Livelihoods Approach • Integrate climate change considerations into the identification of priority areas for conservation • Define spatially the areas where livelihoods may be most impacted by climate change • Combine the two maps to identify areas of: – conflict – areas where maintaining ecological services is the most important for livelihoods Terrestrial Biodiversity & Livelihoods Biodiversity Group • Goal: Synthesis of prioritization of Humid, Northern, Spiny and Deciduous regions Livelihoods Group • Goal: Identify in space the areas where climate change impacts on human well-being will be most severe. Biodiversity group:Mapping priority areas for conservation Discussions by “habitats”: •Deciduous forest •Spiny forest •Rainforest •North Priorities identified based on vulnerability and potential refuge area Results • All forests are important and further deforestation or degradation will reduce environmental resilience to climate change, negatively impacting biodiversity and ecosystem function on which people depend Livelihoods group • Identification of where climate change impacts on human livelihoods occur • Areas of conflict • Opportunities to mitigate biodiversity and livelihood impacts simultaneously Results/Recommendations • Continued deforestation and degradation will greatly exacerbate the impacts of climate change and will amplify its expected consequences. Everything possible should be done to prevent all further forest loss. • Some priority areas for building resiliency of the protected area system were already identified during this workshop, but more sophisticated analyses will also be needed. • Plans for the protected area system also need to integrate environmental functions that are provided by protected areas. New protected areas should be established specifically to maintain environmental functions in areas where human livelihoods are the most vulnerable to climate change. • The government should embrace ecological restoration as another important way to contribute to environmental resilience and biodiversity conservation in the face of climate change, and to provide a valuable source of wood and other important natural products. • Emerging carbon markets should be seen as a major development opportunity for Madagascar. – REDD – Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol • In order to ensure the long-term viability of these adaptation and financing strategies, the Government should ensure that resources from carbon markets flow to local communities so as to provide human livelihood benefits.