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Adaptation

Adaptation

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    Community-based adaptation aims to empower local people to cope with and plan for the impacts of climate change. Conventional approaches to planning adaptation rely on ‘expert’ advice and credible ‘science’ from authoritative information providers such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In this publication, Saleemul Huq suggests that to truly support the needs of local communities, this information needs to be more site-specific, more user-friendly and more inclusive of traditional knowledge and existing coping practices.

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    In November 2008 the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council asked the GEF Evaluation Office to perform an evaluation of the GEF Strategic Priority for Adaptation (SPA) pilot program. This evaluation was conducted fully and independently by the GEF Evaluation Office with support from the GEF Secretariat, GEF Agencies, governments, and civil society organisations.

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    It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it. Due to the fact that experiences in climate change adaptation in Africa are poorly documented, this book provides an attempt to address the perceived need for better documentation and dissemination of African experiences on climate change adaptation.

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    Adaptation is an essential element of human response to climate change. The adverse impacts of climate change on the water sector will be experienced worldwide and are often projected to be most severe in resource-poor countries. Therefore, it is necessary to have access to a diverse array of affordable and appropriate adaptation technologies. This guidebook aims to provide expert information on the technologies most relevant for climate change adaptation in the water sector in developing countries.

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    This manual seeks to enhance the capacity of practitioners and decision makers in developing countries by conveying relevant aspects of climate change research into their every-day working contexts. This guide describes how to obtain climate change information, how to interpret it adequately, and how to communicate the resulting knowledge in a careful and responsible way.

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    As the impacts of climate change begin to manifest globally environmental impact assessments (EIAs) will be crucial in tallying the exact environmental and financial costs of these impacts. Coupled with this will be the need to incorporate EIAs into national adaptation strategies so as to guide policy makers as to scale and scope of the measures that must be implemented.

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    Adaptation projects may be difficult to prioritize and finance, as the results of projects are difficult to quantifiably measure and compare across project types, and no singular “unit” for adaptation outcomes exists. The Higher Ground Foundation is developing the Vulnerability Reduction Credit (VRC™), which incorporates cost/benefit analysis and per capita vulnerability equalization tools to measure the outputs of climate adaptation projects. The VRC quantifies in a singular unit measures to reduce vulnerability to climate change.

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    A VRC™ is the monetized cost of the estimated impact of climate change, adjusted for the income level of the community, that will be avoided as a result of the project. In brief, it is a credit for work done to avoid damages or losses owing to climate change - a vulnerability reduction credit.