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What do decision-makers and practitioners need to know about EbA?
Session 2 – Adaptation Knowledge Day IV
Robert Munroe UNEP-WCMC
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Session formatSetting the scene
Rojina Manandhar (UNFCCC Secretariat)UNFCCC Technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation under the Nairobi Work Programme
Robert Munroe (UNEP-WCMC) EbA knowledge and activity gaps
Addressing the gaps
Agnes Otzelberger (CARE International) Integrating ecosystem considerations in climate change vulnerability assessments
Vera Coelho (Wetlands International) Hybrid/grey-green adaptation approaches
Caroline Petersen (UNDP) Business case for EbA
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Session format
Are these efforts addressing the gaps?
Batu Uprety (Nepal and LEG)
Panel discussion with participants
• Will these efforts support decision-makers/practitioners?
• Are these the correct priorities?
• Are there other gaps in knowledge that have not been reflected?
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EbA knowledge and activity gaps Sources:
FCCC/SBSTA/2013/2 Report on the technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation to climate change
Munroe et al. (2011) Does EbA Work? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation; Policy Brief; UNEP-WCMC, BirdLife, IIED, University of Cambridge, ELAN; Cambridge http://pubs.iied.org/G03187.html
Doswald et al. (in review) ‘Effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation: review of the evidence-base’, Climate and Development
Dialogue with decision-makers and practitioners
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EbA knowledge and activity gaps • How to do climate change vulnerability
assessments that incorporate ecosystem considerations?• Short, medium and long-term benefits and costs• Conditions/limits for ecosystems to provide adaptation benefits• M+E for EbA• Cost-benefit analysis methodologies• Business case for EbA• More comparative studies between EbA and alternatives 6 June 2013
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EbA knowledge and activity gaps • How can EbA learn from CbA?
• Insight into grey-green/hybrid approaches• Where are country EbA ‘champions’?• Global mapping of EbA activities• What are the barriers to EbA, the divergent interests, and who are the winners and losers?• Guidelines/guidance translated into different languages and for different types of decision makers/sectors
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Addressing the gapsEcosystem-based Adaptation Guidance: Moving from Principles to Practice
6 June 2013Adaptation Knowledge Day IV Session 2
Guidance for integrating ecosystem considerations intoclimate change vulnerability assessments – part of the project ‘EbA – Adapting to climate change in mountain ecosystems’ UNEP, UNDP, IUCN, supported by BMU
An economic analysis of ecosystem-based adaptation and engineering options for climate change adaptation in Lami Town, Republic of the Fiji Islands – collaboration of UNEP, SPREP, Conservation International, UN-Habitat, Lami Town Council, and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.