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UNDP ADAPTATION BULLETIN SHOWCASES INITIATIVES IN ARMENIA AND ALBANIA
IISD Reporting Services
Nov 5 2012
November 2012: The October issue of the UN Development Programme's
(UNDP) quarterly Adaptation Bulletin features articles on: supporting
climate change adaptation in Armenia and Albania; and training Asian
government officials to internalize the economics of adaptation into
national investment and planning decisions.
In addition to the Armenian and Albanian projects, the Bulletin
highlights UNDP support for similar adaptation initiatives in
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Bulletin notes that the UNDP adaptation initiative in Armenia's
mountain forest ecosystems integrated climate change risk management
into biodiversity and forest management practices to address forest
degradation and fragmentation, invasive species and wildfires. It
indicates that the initiative recently introduced early warning
systems and forest health monitoring tools to mainstream climate change
risks into forest management planning. According to the Bulletin, the
project has made significant progress in improving wildfire management
through, inter alia, building disaster risk resilience, enhancing
cross-institutional coordination and promoting national ownership.
In Albania, the Bulletin describes how local communities in the
Drini-Mati River Delta identified biodiversity and species loss,
pressure on dunes and groundwater systems and threats to agriculture,
infrastructure and tourism as key concerns, during a UNDP-facilitated
climate risk assessment, prioritization and adaptation process. The
communities proposed preventing coastal erosion and flood protection
through traditional materials use and increasing connectivity of
coastal protected areas through bio-corridors. Government officials
are now evaluating these proposed coastal adaptation measures for
policy adoption and integration.
The Bulletin further describes a collaborative UNDP and the US Agency
for International Development's (USAID) ADAPT Asia-Pacific capacity
building programme is training technical government officers on the
economics of adaptation, including how adaptation relates to medium
and long-term national, sub-national and sectoral development plans and
budgets. The programme also trains officers to use cost-benefit tools
to evaluate adaptation investment projects for financing by different
funds, including the Adaptation Fund (AF), Green Climate Fund (GCF),
Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund
(SCCF).
The Bulletin also includes sections on resources, announcements
and portfolio information. The Bulletin is produced by UNDP-Global
Environmental Facility's (GEF) Environment and Energy Group. [UNDP
Adaptation Bulletin]
http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/undp-adaptation-bulletin-showcases-initiatives-in-armenia-and-albania/165181/
IISD Reporting Services
Nov 5 2012
November 2012: The October issue of the UN Development Programme's
(UNDP) quarterly Adaptation Bulletin features articles on: supporting
climate change adaptation in Armenia and Albania; and training Asian
government officials to internalize the economics of adaptation into
national investment and planning decisions.
In addition to the Armenian and Albanian projects, the Bulletin
highlights UNDP support for similar adaptation initiatives in
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Bulletin notes that the UNDP adaptation initiative in Armenia's
mountain forest ecosystems integrated climate change risk management
into biodiversity and forest management practices to address forest
degradation and fragmentation, invasive species and wildfires. It
indicates that the initiative recently introduced early warning
systems and forest health monitoring tools to mainstream climate change
risks into forest management planning. According to the Bulletin, the
project has made significant progress in improving wildfire management
through, inter alia, building disaster risk resilience, enhancing
cross-institutional coordination and promoting national ownership.
In Albania, the Bulletin describes how local communities in the
Drini-Mati River Delta identified biodiversity and species loss,
pressure on dunes and groundwater systems and threats to agriculture,
infrastructure and tourism as key concerns, during a UNDP-facilitated
climate risk assessment, prioritization and adaptation process. The
communities proposed preventing coastal erosion and flood protection
through traditional materials use and increasing connectivity of
coastal protected areas through bio-corridors. Government officials
are now evaluating these proposed coastal adaptation measures for
policy adoption and integration.
The Bulletin further describes a collaborative UNDP and the US Agency
for International Development's (USAID) ADAPT Asia-Pacific capacity
building programme is training technical government officers on the
economics of adaptation, including how adaptation relates to medium
and long-term national, sub-national and sectoral development plans and
budgets. The programme also trains officers to use cost-benefit tools
to evaluate adaptation investment projects for financing by different
funds, including the Adaptation Fund (AF), Green Climate Fund (GCF),
Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund
(SCCF).
The Bulletin also includes sections on resources, announcements
and portfolio information. The Bulletin is produced by UNDP-Global
Environmental Facility's (GEF) Environment and Energy Group. [UNDP
Adaptation Bulletin]
http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/undp-adaptation-bulletin-showcases-initiatives-in-armenia-and-albania/165181/