Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and response strategies

12.1 The developed country Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.

Research on climate change impacts and vulnerability was, in most cases, related to research on adaptation to climate change.

Parties are encouraged to use the IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations.

And this is climate proof.

Monitoring of factors governing weather

(iii) Public participation in addressing climate change and its effects and developing adequate responses and

That climate plays no role.

(a) Research on the impacts of climate change

Notably, Parties presented information on the results of studies on climate change impacts and adaptation, including through the application of climate modelling and prediction.

The effect of atmospheric phenomenon on weather and climate variations is also important to be known.

Those affected disproportionally were the poorest countries, especially developing countries, who had the least capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change and bore no responsibility for its root causes.

22 3 Climate and atmosphere I Adaptation to climate change (subprogrammes 2 and 6)

Most of the adaptation options were identified using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (hereinafter referred to as the IPCC Guidelines) and the GCMs to evaluate and or determine the cost of specific adaptation strategies and measures.

We know climate change is going to affect all of us.

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice programme of work on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

Article 4.1 (e) requires Parties to cooperate in preparing for adaptation to the impacts of climate change.

In view of the suggested discernible human influence on global climate and in accordance with Article 3.3 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), anticipatory planned adaptation deserves particular attention from the international climate change community.

Funding of mitigation projects has begun in the areas defined in the three initial operational programmes for climate change.

Building on what had been achieved, Parties should explore ways to strengthen tools, such as the CDM, and to take measures to adapt to climate change and soften its impact.

Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof quot ,

Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof quot .

Climate change affected weather patterns in different places in different ways.

Cross sectoral dialogue and cooperation are needed to achieve best practices to combat climate change, as well as coordination and integration of sector policies having an impact on climate change.

The world had a solid and broad scientific basis on which to take immediate action to eliminate the causes of climate change and prepare for its inevitable effects.

Scientific technical analyses of impacts, adaptations, and mitigation of climate change contribution of Working Group II of the IPCC

The United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol are a response to that need.

A review of this programme of work would be undertaken on the basis of the findings in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which will be available in 2007.

The developed country Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.

Most of the adaptation options were identified using the IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation to evaluate and determine the cost of specific adaptation strategies and measures.

There is broad consensus among scientists that the scientific understanding of the ongoing climate change is sufficient to warrant taking urgent action in order to mitigate the impact of future climate change, including both the environmental impacts and the socio economic consequences.

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Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and response strategies All Parties followed the UNFCCC guidelines for reporting on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.

The significant remaining gaps in our knowledge on climate change, its impacts and adaptation strategies pose obstacles to improving and accelerating implementation of climate policies.

Table 1. Models and approaches used to assess impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change in key sectors in non Annex I Parties

Mr. Richard Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and UNFCCC consultant, presented the draft background paper on Technology to understand and manage climate risks .

It cooperates with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, other conventions, and related organizations engaged in climate change impact assessment, systematic observation and mitigation of climate change.

The expected impacts of climate were estimated using IPCC emission scenarios.

Reporting Non Annex I Parties generally followed the UNFCCC guidelines in reporting impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.

Climate change brings widespread weather events that affect whole communities at the same time.

First, policy frameworks for addressing climate change impacts and adaptation measures are often incomplete and second, government policy frameworks and regulation objectives are often inconsistent with climate change adaptation and mitigation goals.

WCASP World Climate Applications and Services Programme (WMO)

However, it reiterates the need, first expressed in the Climate Convention, for funds to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change to meet the costs of adaptation to those adverse effects.

2. Recognize and endorse the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as currently the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, its impacts and response options now available.

7. Expected impacts of climate change and vulnerability assessment