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Whats on the environmental technology radar?
Scanning the horizon for innovation in adaptation
technologies
Aaron Atteridge Stockholm Environment
Institute, Sweden
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• Don't forget 'past' practises, and probably
  technologies that we have all forgotten about or
  ignore.
• I don't imagine Granma left much of a carbon
  footprint

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Climate change in Europe

• Northern initially higher crop and forest
  productivity winter flooding, loss of
  ecosystems, ground instability
• Central and Eastern lower rainfall, heat waves,
  lower forest productivity
• Southern higher temperatures and worsening
  droughts

peseta.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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What is Adaptation?

• The adjustment in natural or human systems in
  response to actual or expected climatic stimuli
  or their effects, which moderates harm or
  exploits beneficial opportunities
• (IPCC TAR, 2001)

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What is Adaptation?
www.wri.org
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What is Adaptation?

• Adaptive responses
• Technological sea defences
• Behavioural altered food and recreation choices
• Managerial altered farm practices
• Policy planning regulations

Risk Bias towards adaptation by ribbon cutting
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Future technologies for adaptation
Traditional bed nets, houses on stilts,
traditional cropping patterns
www.shoptraveldoctor.com
Modern storm barriers, air conditioning,
vaccines
High tech satellite monitoring, seasonal
forecasting, genetically modified seeds
dvice.com
redgreenandblue.org
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Agriculture
Traditional zero-grazing techniques, crop
rotation, changing crop varieties, advanced
sowing dates to offset moisture stress
Modern drip irrigation, lining water
distribution canals, low till farming, farm
insurance
High tech seasonal forecasting, drought and
heat-resistant crops, advanced biotechnology (eg
more efficient photosynthetic machinery)
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Coastal

• Information and awareness
• Coastal system description (maps, tide gauges,
  buoys, remote sensing, surveys).

• Planning and design
• Simulation tools (sediment budget models,
  economic models).
• Decision tools (cost-benefit analysis).
• Cross-cutting technology (GIS)

• Implementation
• Protect dikes, seawalls
• Retreat set-back zones, relocation
• Accommodate emergency plans, insurance,
  modification of land use

Monitoring and evaluation
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Innovation is combining technologies

• Grundfos project example

www.masternewmedia.org
loan-forstudents.com
www.ecosac.com.au
better access to clean water
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Information technology
www.spacetoday.org
www.fnal.gov
www.lumina-media.com
www.floodwarn.co.uk
lifesatrip.files.wordpress.com
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Innovation is finding co-benefits

• Planned adaptation must deal with uncertainty
  about future conditions
• Best adaptation options are those which also have
  other benefits
• improving livelihoods
• reducing GHG emissions

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Adaptation in developing countries

• Already flows of international finance to support
  adaptation, and these will increase
• Finance creates a market for innovation and
  technologies that can support the efforts of
  developing countries to reduce vulnerabilities
• National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)

http//unfccc.int/national_reports/napa/items/2719
.php
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The role of innovation in reducing our
vulnerability to climate change

• New technologies
• Improve resource efficiencies
• Reduce costs
• Improve aesthetics
• Making existing technologies more accessible
• Combining technologies
• Creative delivery of finance
• Avoiding a bias for adaptation by ribbon
  cutting
• Harnessing co-benefits

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Thank you Aaron Atteridge Stockholm Environment
Institute aaron.atteridge_at_sei.se