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Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Adaptation - Refers to taking actions to reduce the negative impacts of


climate change and build resilience to climate-related shocks and
stresses across all systems.
The actions are changes in processes and practices to the environment to
better manage climate impacts —mitigating potential damages and
seizing opportunities as a result of climate change.
In the absence of effective climate change adaptation, climate impacts
will continue to negatively affect millions of people around the globe —
with ever-increasing impacts on global warming.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
– a treaty that came into force in 1994. This was the 26th COP
(Conference of the Parties ) summit and was hosted in partnership
between the UK and Italy
• In 2015, the UN-brokered Paris Agreement established a Global Goal
on Adaptation (GGA) that seeks to enhance countries’ capacity to
adapt, strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability to climate
change.
• The 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) held in Glasgow,
Scotland, in 2021 was a major milestone in the process.
• The program calls for eight workshops to be held prior to the 28th UN
Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in the UAE Dubai in late 2023,
where negotiators are to finalize a framework for the global goal on
adaptation.
The 29th Conference of the Parties will be held from the 11–22
November, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Strengthening commitments and
action at COP29.
Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA)
• The GGA is an effective tool to measure progress toward collective
climate adaptation goals — such as the UN Secretary-General’s call
to provide everyone on Earth with access to early warning systems by
2027.
• Holding leaders at every level accountable for taking the actions
needed to keep individuals, communities, ecosystems, and economies
climate-safe.
• The GGA framework can help set a learning agenda for building
resilience so that adaptation action is more effective, efficient, and
equitable in all parts of the world.
The GGA can deliver a more resilient and prosperous future for
everyone in the following ways:-
1. Driving climate action more broadly – including in the context of mitigation
and loss and damage.
2.Catalyzing action to make the world a safer, more prosperous place for all.
Crisis Management and Communication.

• Requires the involvement and engagement of key stakeholders who


need to understand the causes and impacts of Climate Change at a
national, household and individual level as well as their roles in risk
reduction, adaptation and mitigation.
• Address the persistently low public concern and awareness about
climate change despite the significant challenges it poses to society, a
range of communication channels including traditional media, social
media, community meetings, public events and language
employed were utilized in these strategies.
Communication climate
• Communication climate refers to the emotional and psychological
environment of a relationship, which is influenced by the
communication behaviors and attitudes of the people involved.
Communication climate can be positive or negative, supportive or
defensive, open or closed.
• Collective action is necessary to combat the effects of climate change
and communication is key to building consensus and encouraging
positive change.
• In order to address climate change as a collective, we must focus on
changing our climate communication around difficult issues.
Climate communication strategy

Step 1: Frame climate as a public health issue.


Step 2: Co-create with the audience.
Step 3: Pick a trusted messenger.
Step 4: Focus on belonging and empowerment.
Step 5: Follow the crowd.
Step 6: Harness emotion.
Step 7: Make it visual.
Step 8: Tell a story.
Future climate is uncertain
• The climate change has altered the frequency and characteristics of
some types of extreme weather events , may potentially generate novel
extreme and compound events, and cold extremes.
• This will increase pressures on incident and emergency management,
and on the staff and resources involved.
• The Residual risk is the risk that remains after efforts to identify and
eliminate some or all types of risk is beyond current coping
mechanisms.
Implications of climate change for emergency planning

1. Risk assessment - Potential events and their estimated magnitudes or likelihoods.


2. A long-term perspective - Changing conditions mean that methods and capabilities
will need to evolve , long-lead times is the need to take a long-term perspective.
3. Response capabilities and planning for cascading consequences - Altered
event characteristics and frequencies imply changes to response capabilities.
4. Cold events will continue to occur - Climate change reduces, but does
not eliminate, the risk of cold weather events.
5. Training and exercises - Plan for novel conditions through exercises
6. Public engagement and messaging - More frequent, and more challenging,
events imply changes to messages in warnings.
7. Improving resilience - Improve resilience to extreme events to reduce the need for
emergency response.

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