rising vulnerability to climate change
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Station #2: Rising vulnerability to climate change – Increased need for transboundary cooperation
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Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative (CCAI)
The MRC Special Sessions at the 2015 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
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Climate change as the concern world-wide
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the First World Climate Conference 1979
Source: http://www.wmo.int/
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LMB at risk, MRC to act
Source: IPCC 2007
Source: EEPSEA 2009
2007: MRC Council asked for the development of CCAI
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Protection against sea level rise? Ecosystem-based
adaptation?
Floods will increase? Flood will decrease?
Drought will increase? Livelihoods? Food
security?
How about ecosystems and biodiversity? And
diseases?
Adaptation planning is needed but what to
plan for?
Complex and uncertain situation: how to quantify risk
and prioritise actions?
Transboundary river, transboundary adaptation
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MRC Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative
Mekong Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan (MASAP) 2017
Status of climate change and adaptation 2016
Future climate change scenarios 2015
Adaptation options, costs and benefits 2016
Current and future vulnerability 2016
Common knowledge base
Capacity of member countries
Financial mechanism and resources 2016
Database, methods, tools 2015
National experts, Trainers, Modelers 2015
Awareness 2014
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Participation and engagement for adaptation mainstreaming and effectiveness
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Thank You !
Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative
Mekong River Commission Secretariat Vientiane Lao PDR
Nguyen Huong Thuy Phan, [email protected]
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