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Climate change is increasing variability in the water cycle, thus inducing extreme weather events, reducing the predictability of water availability, decreasing water quality and threatening sustainable development, biodiversity and enjoyment of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation worldwide.
Water and climate change are inextricably linked. Extreme weather events are making water more scarce, more unpredictable, more polluted or all three. These impacts throughout the water cycle threaten sustainable development, biodiversity, and people’s access to water and sanitation.
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Jul 14, 2019 · climate change. The ocean has also absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat in the climate system. Ocean heat is at record levels, causing wide - spread marine heatwaves, threatening its...
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- UNFCCC
- III. ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF, AND VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION TO, CLIMATE CHANGE
- 3.1 INFORMATION GATHERING – DATA, SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION AND MONITORING
- 3.2 INFORMATION ANALYSIS – REPORTING OF IMPACTS, VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION
- V. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- 5.1 ADAPTATION STRATEGIES, PLANS AND PROGRAMMES
- 5.3 FUNDING FOR ADAPTATION
- AND PLANNING
- 5.7.3 PUBLIC AWARENESS
- 5.8 COOPERATION AND SYNERGIES
- 5.9 IMPLEMENTING ADAPTATION
- VI. LOOKING FORWARD
- CLIMATE CHANGE:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Assessing the impacts of and vulnerability to climate change and subsequently working out adaptation needs requires good quality information. This information includes climate data, such as temperature, rainfall and the frequency of extreme events, and non-climatic data, such as the current situation on the ground for different sectors including w...
For countries to understand their local climate better and thus be able to predict local climate change, they must have adequate operational national systematic observing networks, and access to the data available from other global and regional networks. Systematic observations of the climate system are usually carried out by national meteorologic...
Reliable, systematic climate data helps countries determine their current climate variabilities, and model future changes. Countries use a number of assessment models, tools and methodologies as well as various scenarios, including those provided by the IPCC (IPCC 2000), to help provide an assessment of the future impacts of climate change. Clima...
Adaptation to climate change in developing countries is vital and has been highlighted by them as having a high or urgent priority. Although uncertainty remains about the extent of climate change impacts, in many developing countries there is sufficient information and knowledge available on strategies and plans to implement adaptation activities ...
Adapting to climate change will entail adjustments and changes at every level – from community to national and international. Communities must build their resilience, including adopting appropriate technologies while making the most of traditional knowledge, and diversifying their livelihoods to cope with current and future climate stress. Local ...
Funding is vital in order for developing countries to plan for and implement adaptation plans and projects. A basic conclusion of the Stern Review is that the costs of strong and urgent action on climate change will be less than the costs thereby avoided of the impacts of climate change under business as usual (Stern 2006). All countries, rich an...
Incorporating or integrating adaptation to climate change into planning processes is a necessary strategy for sustainable development over the long term. Climate change impacts do not happen in isolation; impacts in one sector can adversely or positively affect another; sectors can be affected directly and/or indirectly by climate change and indee...
Participants at the workshops and meeting noted that awareness on climate change risks and the need for adaptation should be raised among key sectors and mass media, including by using current events, such as economic, weather and health crises, as a basis to promote adaptation measures with co-benefits. Improving public awareness and developing o...
Given that many countries may experience similar effects from climate change, sharing experience can broaden knowledge on how to address the adaptation challenges. In this regard South-South and North-South cooperation on adaptation is an effective tool for promoting the implementation of adaptation measures. There is still considerable scope and ...
Implementing adaptation plans and strategies is a vital next step for developing countries. As highlighted in this chapter, many plans and strategies have been made and a number of capacity-building projects have been undertaken. Now, it is important to bridge the gap between adaption assessment and planning and adaption implementation, and to bu...
Developing countries are already suffering from the impacts of climate change and are the most vulnerable to future change. A number of developing countries have developed adaptation plans or are in the process of finalizing them. This includes the National Adaptation Programmes of Action of least developed countries. There is now an urgency for...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change IMPACTS, VULNERABILITIES AND ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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Building on recent reviews on climate change impacts on freshwater resources and adaptation strategies, this technical paper analyses existing scientific information on observed and projected impacts of climate change on water, provides information on links between climate change and freshwater resources and on adaptation to climate change in th...
Target 6.4 “By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially...
