Combating Climate Change:Is climate change adaptation out of business?
Dhaka, 20 March 2012
Harnessing forests, trees and agroforestry for climate change mitigation
Enhancing climate change adaptation Understanding synergies between climate change
mitigation and adaptation
Climate change adaptation and mitigationResearchcomponent
Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation
Mitigation
Adaptation
Climate change and variability
Impacts
Responses
AdaptationMitigation
Kyoto Protocol UNFCCC
Tropical Wetlands Initiatives for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
(TWINCAM)
Capacity building – TWINCAM Project
Understanding the nature of wetlands, threats and opportunity for CC adaptation and mitigation
Equipping partners with necessary tools Designing collaborative research Engaging public and private sectors
Wetlands for CC mitigationNew finding: Surprisingly large amounts of carbon stored in mangrove forests, especially below ground
Mangrove photo
Source: Donato et al. (2011)
Global survey – 2011/12
GabonMozambique
MexicoCosta RicaEcuador
VietnamIndia
UNFCCC Side Event
SB-32 identified the limitation of the IPCC 2006 for GHGs National Inventory
SB-34 we organized a Side event to synergize adaptation strategies and measures
Invited by IPCC to develop new methodologies for GHGs inventories in wetlands
Tropical wetlands for CC adaptation and mitigation in the global agenda
Joint CIFOR-CATIE research on tropical forests and climate change adaptation in Honduras influenced the design of one of the first projects ever approved by the UNFCCC’s Adaptation Fund Board
Can we do the same for Bangladesh?
National agencies should be involved BCAS?
Wetlands for CC adaptation
The Sundarbands• The world's largest
remaining single block of mangrove (10,000 km2)
• Delta front has undergone a net erosion of ~170 km2 of coastal land in the 40 years
Source: Rahman et al. (2011)
The world mangroves
• CC mitigation has been widely recognized than adaptation • Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation is not an option• Wetlands have a huge potential for CC adaptation and mitigation• Scientific communities see CC adaptation as policy relevant• This may encourage business community to play its roles
The way forward