A Study of Climate Change Adaptation Practices and Their Implementations

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A study of Climate change adaptation practices and their implementations.

1) Introduction-
A series of reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the Nineties conclusively linked increasing climate variability as a consequence of human actions resulting in increasing quantities of Green House Gases in the environment.
These reports led to a call for international action and thus the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established in 1994. The Framework envisaged two main strategies to tackle climate change-
• Mitigation- processes involving reducing the output of green house gases
• Adaptation-methods used to cope with climate change
1.1) The need for Adaptation-
Mitigation practices were initially the method of choice but it gradually became apparent that the rapidity of climate change called for a policy mix of both strategies.
Adaptation practices and their documentations saw a steady increase as the effect of decades old emissions caught up after a time lag. Which is why November 2006 the UNFCCC published a technical paper titled “Application of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change (FCC/TP/2006/2)” which summarized practices, methods and adaptations techniques carried out in various climatic regions.
In a separate UNFCCC publication titled “Climate Change: Impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation in Developing Countries”, the following table was published as guide to adaptation in relevant environments-

Table 1: Adaptation as seen in vulnerable sectors (UNFCCC, July 25, 2006)

2) Area specific adaptation techniques:
Adaptation techniques are not ‘one-off’ occurrences, they need to be repeated periodically for maximum effe...

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