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Presentation On Climate Change Study

The document discusses various strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts across multiple sectors. It outlines approaches in agriculture such as using drought-resistant crops, strengthening early warning systems, and improving soil and water conservation. In health, it discusses preventing and treating climate-sensitive diseases through early warning systems, emergency measures, and awareness campaigns. It also discusses adaptation strategies in water management, energy, and forestry sectors, as well as broad mitigation approaches through infrastructure changes, technological optimizations, and systemic/behavioral responses.

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Presentation On Climate Change Study

The document discusses various strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts across multiple sectors. It outlines approaches in agriculture such as using drought-resistant crops, strengthening early warning systems, and improving soil and water conservation. In health, it discusses preventing and treating climate-sensitive diseases through early warning systems, emergency measures, and awareness campaigns. It also discusses adaptation strategies in water management, energy, and forestry sectors, as well as broad mitigation approaches through infrastructure changes, technological optimizations, and systemic/behavioral responses.

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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION

• Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture and Food Security


– Use of improved crop varieties,
– Pest risk analysis and improvement of pest management techniques
– Breeding crop and livestock for drought and pest tolerance,
– Awareness creation on climate change and adaptation strategies,
– Strengthening early warning systems,
– Research on pest resistant varieties,
– Improved assessment tools for forecasting migratory pests including
Integrated crop and pest management
– Better use of climate and weather data, weather forecasts, and other
management tools,
– Improved soil and water conservation measures – water harvesting

• Generally
– Design sustainable crop production and farming systems reflective of climate
change scenarios
– Increase C sequestration on farms – AFOLU
• Reduced tillage (minimal cultivation),
• High carbon crops (fruit or nut orchard, vines, tea, coffee) and
• Agroforestry
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION
• Adaptation Strategies in the Health Sector
– Prevention, control and treatment of Malaria, Dysentery, Cholera,
Meningitis and Typhoid and phyto-medicine programmes,
– Establishment of and strengthening community awareness programmes
on preventable major health hazards,
– Establishment of health & climate collaboration & synthesis programs,
– Well coordinated early warning system and emergency measures, at
national, regional and district level and
– Provision of efficient equipment to assist early diagnosis in health
centres and availability of sufficient trained staff at all health facilities.
– Map areas susceptible to climate change impacts
– Build capacity in the area of climate change and health, establish and
develop emergency preparedness and response capacity
– Develop database and monitoring system on climate change and
indicators of health impacts
– Identify priority prevention and mitigation measures including mitigation
plans
– Strengthen focused disease control program for prevention and
treatment of climate sensitive diseases.
– Promote simple and cost effective technologies to prevent diseases
including household level water treatment and safe storage facilities
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION

Adaptation Strategies in Water Management


• Irrigation development
• Development of alternative water storage and water harvesting

• Strengthening integrated water resources management

• Development of both surface and subsurface water reservoirs

• Promotion of community based Catchment conservation and


management

• Promotion of new water serving technologies in irrigation

• Development of recycle and reuse facility in industrial sector and


potentially in households
• Floods control

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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION

Adaptation Strategies in the Energy Sector

• Sustainable supply can be met through forest establishment:


– smallholder forestry,
– private woodlots,
– agro-forestry, and
– large scale fuelwood plantations
– Forest management
• Hydro power supply through improve Catchment management –
Catchment Forestry
•Bio-fuel production and carbon trade markets.
• Participate in AFOLU for carbon markets
– proper land use planning and management,
– better agricultural practices e.g. agroforestry; conservation tillage;
– sustainable fuelwood plantations;
– animal husbandry;
– soil C storage
• Alternative Energy - Solar, Hydro, Wind, Bio-charcoal and Biofuels
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION

•Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Forestry


•Mitigation options:
– protection of existing forests;
– afforestation, reforestation, and forest productivity improvements;
– revegetation of degraded lands by tree /shrub planting, and
– substitution of fossil fuels by sustain ably produced fuelwood
•Address the causes of deforestation and forest degradation:
– provide affordable and sustainable alternative energy sources gas,
biogas and improved utilization of fuelwood and bio-fuels
– avoid shifting cultivation through conservation tillage, use of
fertilisers and manure, and agroforestry
– establish woodlots to meet timber demand
• Strengthening community based forest management
practices
• Assess impacts of Climate change on the forestry sector

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BROAD APPROACHES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE

• Three broad approaches;


– Infrastructure/asset based responses,
– Technological/process optimization responses and
– Systemic/behavioral responses

(1) Infrastructure/asset based responses


– Require physical changes to existing assets or
infrastructure e.g. buildings, planting conservation or
management of mangrove ecosystems buffers to
disperse sea wave energy
– improving communication by roads, rail especially in
rural areas to improve accessibility and access to
markets
– expansion and improvement of irrigation infrastructure
BROAD APPROACHES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT RISKS

• Technological/Process Optimization Responses


– measures that require adoption or use of
different technology, process or input to
mitigate climate change impacts
• Improved fertilizer application
• Wider use of technology to improve the effectiveness of
irrigation
• Improve and intensify irrigation technology
BROAD APPROACHES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT RISKS
• Systemic/Behavioral Response
– Measures that involve behavioral change or coordinated
systematic response
• Measures to protect from flood risks including awareness
campaign for local communities/ residents in cities, towns and
villages.
• Tools to assess homes, individual risk profiles,
• Improved emergency response training
• Self assessment of risks of flooding based on location

– Where the costs of severe weather events are prohibitive we can


use a range of risk transfer measures e.g. insurance and
alternative financial solutions for property as among the inclusions
in portfolio of adaptation measures.

– Take into account measures that are already being implemented to


promote economic development but would also strengthen climate
resilience. For example irrigation policy (there is already an
irrigation master plan in place)

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