4 December 2007 | Luca Del Buono

 

A newly launched five-year Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change report jointly published by UNEP and the Global Environment Facility demonstrates how communities affected by climate change can and are beginning to adapt to climate change. Pointing to hard choices that may need to be made, the report lays a foundation that at-risk nations and the international community can build and fund a credible and timely response to the climate change that is already underway.

Twenty-four case studies were carried out encompassing food security in the Sahel; smallholder farmers and artisanal fishing communities in South America; coastal townships of small islands in the Pacific; pastoralists in Mongolia; rice farmers in the lower Mekong basin.

The US$9 million assessment has been funded by the GEF and implemented by UNEP and results are summarised in the final technical report. Full stories and recommendations from the case studies are also presented in two newly published books, Climate Change and Vulnerability and Climate Change and Adaptation.

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