Transcript Diapositiva 1 - PreventionWeb

REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE MEETING OF NATIONAL
PLATFORMS ON DRR & DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION, October 20-22, Panama
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HFA & Climate Change
Reporting Needs and
Proposals
Presented by:
Group 3
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Overview
• Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a cross-cutting and
complex development issue that requires political
and legal commitment, public understanding,
scientific knowledge, careful development planning,
responsible enforcement of policies and legislation,
people-centred early warning systems, and effective
disaster preparedness and response mechanisms.
• A multi-stakeholder National Platform for DRR can
help provide and mobilize knowledge, skills and
resources required for mainstreaming DRR into
development policies, planning and programmes.
• DDR is not a legally-binding commitment
• CCA – Adverse effects are not felt equally from one
region / country to the next
• Need for commitment to help the most vulnerable
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Small island states, coastal systems and
other low-lying areas are especially
vulnerable to the effects and impacts of
climate change, rising sea levels and
extreme weather events.
Millions of people are likely to be affected by
floods, storm surges, erosion and other
coastal hazards every year due to rising sea
levels by the 2080s
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• Lessons learned from Kyoto – how can
we further accountability and real
costing of adverse effects of climate
change spanning the continents and
regions
• Disaggregating measures to account
for regional differences in impacts
• Caribbean context – coping
mechanisms and coping capacities
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HFA & Climate Change Reporting
• The Caribbean region in particular
presents a strong need for integrated DRR
& Climate Change Reporting &
Programmes
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• Increase in extreme events & rising sealevels are critical issues for the Caribbean
in particular
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Vulnerability: a function of the character, magnitude and rate of
climate change and variation to which a system is exposed, its
sensitivity and its adaptive capacity. (Source: IPCC)
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Adaptive Capacity: The ability of a system to adjust to climate change
(including climate variability and extremes) to moderate potential
damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with the
consequences. (Source: IPCC)
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Climate Impact Assessment: The practice of identifying and
evaluating the (detrimental and beneficial) consequences of climate
change on natural and human systems. (Source: IPCC WG II)
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What does this imply for the Caribbean region where (whole)
populations will be displaced over the next 50-100 years and some
islands may even disappear entirely?
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Current mechanisms
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National Adaptation Programmes of Action
National Communication on Climate Change to the UNFCC
Ibero-American Climate Change Offices Network (RIOCC)
Ibero-American Plan surrounding Climate Change Vulnerability,
Impacts and Adaptation (PIACC)
• Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Global Climate Change
(CPACC)
• Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM)
• The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility
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(CCRIF)
• Five-Year ACS Plan of Action for Disaster Risk Reduction in the
Greater Caribbean
• Peru is currently developing an agricultural insurance
mechanism
• others
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Current mechanisms
• The Hyogo Framework for Action specifically identifies the
need to “promote the integration of risk reduction associated
with existing climate variability and future climate change into
strategies for the reduction of disaster risk and adaptation to
climate change...”.
• Unlike Climate Change, HFA reporting and DRR measures are
only a political commitment and not legally-binding
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• CCRIF must be strengthened or couples with other risk transfer
mechanisms to account for climate change & extreme events,
as well as smaller-scale events
• Need for cluster of transfer mechanisms disaggregated
• Reporting to whom and to what end? Purpose of reporting
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Needs
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• Need for other intermediate sources
• Need to explore other risk transfer
mechanisms with a focus on climate change
• Water resources and safe drinking water
• Increasing need for coping mechanisms for
high-frequency, low intensity events (i.e.
small-scale events)
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Needs
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• Need for true-costing beyond economic incentives
• Incentives / disincentives
• Displacement of environmentally-induced
populations
• Need to return to land-use planning & management
as a central area of focus
• Beyond assessments, need for coping mechanisms
• Need for ownership and leadership of the DRR
process at all levels, national and local in particular
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Indicators
• Need to strengthen indicators that link DRR &
CCA
• Need for adequate capabilities for monitoring
(extreme events)
• Reporting to UN system and to national
governments
• Planning for displaced populations, in part
due to rising sea levels
• 50 – 100 years: Who will report and who will
support medium to long term programming,
planning and policy
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Indicators cont.
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• Country-specific indicators to ensure
ownership of programmes and
mechanisms
• Consideration of local & cultural
values
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Proposals
• Two-way reporting to facilitate accountability
• “Donour” responsibility
• Robustness i.e. cultural nuances considered &
accounted for within reporting
• Promote / support the rights of environmentally
induced migrants
• Land-use management and planning with focus on
CC & DRR
• Priority of water resources and other natural
resources in medium to long term
• Ecosystem services
• Land tenure within the UN agenda
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• Strengthen CCRIF & other risk transfer
mechanisms with incentives and
disincentives (invoke Canadian
government initiative to promote
reduction activities
• DRR & CC tools and incentives for
national governments specifically
• Incentives for DRR beyond economic /
macro terms
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Practical guidelines
Move from theory to practice
Reporting at all levels, including local
Programmes for investing in prevention
coupled with other mechanisms of risk
transfer
• Particular focus on high frequency, low
intensity events
• Mechanisms i.e. buffer for increasing
resilience to smaller-scale events
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• Use of cost-benefit mechanisms for
mitigation
• Strengthening local coping capacities
for small-scale events: lessons learned
& good practices
• Insurance mechanisms with incentives
to increase resilience, reduce risk, and
promote prevention through premiums
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Conclusions
• Greater emphasis on HFA in general &
HFA Priority for Action 4: Reduce the
underlying risk factors in particular
• DRR & Priority 4 as a legally-binding
reporting requirement (along with CCA)
& commitment
• Move from theory to practice
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