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Scientific, technical and socio-economic
aspects of impacts of, and vulnerability
and adaptation to, climate change
Government of Argentina
SBSTA 22
Bonn, 21 May 2005
Mitigation and adaptation are the main
instruments of the UNFCCC to achieve the
objectives of its Article 2.
The Berlin Mandate (CoP 1), and the Kyoto Protocol
(CoP 3) refer to mitigation.
The efforts that lead to CoP 7 in Marrakech were
mainly directed to the international implementation
of mitigation activities.
The global scope of adaptation was progressively
acknowledged since the IPCC’s TAR was published.
The Ministerial Declaration adopted by CoP 8 in
Delhi states:
“…adaptation to the adverse effects of climate
change deserves urgent attention and action on
the part of the international community…”, and
“…effective and result-based measures should be
supported for the development of approaches at
all levels on vulnerability and adaptation…”.
The CoP 10 adopted the “Buenos Aires programme of
work on adaptation and response measures” (Decision
1/CP.10)
It requested the SBSTA to develop a five-year program of
work on the scientific, technical and socio-economic
aspects of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to
climate change, along the following main lines of enquiry:
Methodologies, data and modeling
Vulnerability assessments
Planning, measures, and actions for adaptation
Integration into sustainable development
SBSTA’s actions
The SBSTA could develop the five-year programme along the
following steps:
Contracting experts for preparing basic proposals on actions
addressing the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects
of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change at
multilateral, regional, sub-regional, and national ranges.
Submission of those documents to virtual (i.e. Internet)
debates—moderated by relevant experts—with the aim of
producing conclusions and recommendations.
The various recommendations and conclusions (if any) would
be taken up by the SBSTA, and discussed within its domain to
produce recommendations for the Cop/Mop.
The ways forward.
Ways to create clusters of adaptation and response
measures strategies. This clusters could be:
The problems of flooding.
The problems of drought.
The search of new plant and animal species, and
genetic improvement of the extant ones.
The displacement of disease vectors.
&c. (Imagine it!)
•Ways to obtaining relevant information, and filling the
gaps in it, and thereby propose action programmes for the
clusters.
•Ways to the efficient implementation of those agreed
action programmes.
In summary
The SBSTA should embark on the elaboration of a handbook for good
practices to comply with the mandate set in decision 1/CP.10
Thank you!