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Integrating Climate Change
Adaptation into Disaster Risk
Reduction Strategies
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Risk of CC to Maldives
• Damage to coastal infrastructures due to adverse impacts of hazards such as floods due to storm surge and heavy rain
• Salt water intrusion in to the fresh water lens National Disaster Management Centre, Male’ Maldives
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Severe Beach Erosion and Loss of land
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Coral Bleaching and loss of marine life having a direct impact on economy
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The 2007 IPCC report suggested that sea levels would rise by between 190 mm (7.5 inches) and 590 mm by the end of this century.
Complete inundation of Islands
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Sea Level Rise Projections for
Male’
Male’ in the year 2025
15% of Male’
inundated under IPCC worst case scenario (IS92e)
Male’ in the year 2050
30% of Male’
inundated under IPCC worst case scenario (IS92e)
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Male’ in the year 2100
Male’ inundated completely under IPCC worst case
scenario (IS92e)
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Recent Trends
Pro‐long dry seasons and water shortages
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• High intense hydro meteorological weather events
• Cyclone Neelam caused heavy rains inundating 51 islands.
• Long term impacts to drinking water and infrastructures
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CCA-DRR Initiatives in Maldives
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Population Consolidation and Safe island concept
• wider environmental protection zones.
• elevated areas for vertical evacuation in event of floods.
• easy access in emergencies.
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Maldives Disaster Management Bill
• A balance of DRR and Response
• Special focus on mainstreaming DRR into developmental planning
• Special clauses on
• Tourism Sector Preparedness
• Maldives Building Code • Education sector Preparedness and integrating DRR‐CCA into school curriculum
• Improving Health Sector Preparedness, especially to health hazards
• Establishment of a multi‐
hazard early warning system
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Current Programmes
• Mainstreaming disaster
risk reduction in to
developmental Planning
• Tools
• Project Management,
Budget tools
• CBDRR Framework
• National framework
CBDRR
• Training package
• Planning tools
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• Institutional and legal systems for DRR
established and capacities of DRR
institutions strengthened to fulfill their
mandate
• End-to-end early warning systems
strengthened
• Increased public awareness and knowledge
on disaster risk reduction and climate change
adaptation
• Increased community capacities for disaster
preparedness for effective response
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• School Preparedness
activities
• A public private
partnership initiative
between tourist
resorts and
government on
enhancing the
capacity of tourism
sector for disaster
management
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Gaps
• A sustainable
method of doing
scientific risk
assessments needs
to be explored
• Linking risk
assessment to
developmental
planning
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• Establishing an
end-to-end early
warning system
with both national
and island Level
SOPs
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