combating climate change: is climate change adaptation out of business? dhaka, 20 march 2012

Combating Climate Change:Is climate change adaptation out of business?

Dhaka, 20 March 2012

Harnessing forests, trees and agroforestry for climate change mitigation

Enhancing climate change adaptation Understanding synergies between climate change

mitigation and adaptation

Climate change adaptation and mitigationResearchcomponent

Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation

Mitigation

Adaptation

Climate change and variability

Impacts

Responses

AdaptationMitigation

Kyoto Protocol UNFCCC

Tropical Wetlands Initiatives for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

(TWINCAM)

Capacity building – TWINCAM Project

Understanding the nature of wetlands, threats and opportunity for CC adaptation and mitigation

Equipping partners with necessary tools Designing collaborative research Engaging public and private sectors

Wetlands for CC mitigationNew finding: Surprisingly large amounts of carbon stored in mangrove forests, especially below ground

Mangrove photo

Source: Donato et al. (2011)

Global survey – 2011/12

GabonMozambique

MexicoCosta RicaEcuador

VietnamIndia

UNFCCC Side Event

SB-32 identified the limitation of the IPCC 2006 for GHGs National Inventory

SB-34 we organized a Side event to synergize adaptation strategies and measures

Invited by IPCC to develop new methodologies for GHGs inventories in wetlands

Tropical wetlands for CC adaptation and mitigation in the global agenda

Joint CIFOR-CATIE research on tropical forests and climate change adaptation in Honduras influenced the design of one of the first projects ever approved by the UNFCCC’s Adaptation Fund Board

Can we do the same for Bangladesh?

National agencies should be involved BCAS?

Wetlands for CC adaptation

The Sundarbands• The world's largest

remaining single block of mangrove (10,000 km2)

• Delta front has undergone a net erosion of ~170 km2 of coastal land in the 40 years

Source: Rahman et al. (2011)

The world mangroves

• CC mitigation has been widely recognized than adaptation • Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation is not an option• Wetlands have a huge potential for CC adaptation and mitigation• Scientific communities see CC adaptation as policy relevant• This may encourage business community to play its roles

The way forward