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REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE MEETING OF NATIONAL
PLATFORMS ON DRR DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION, October 20-22, Panama
HFA Climate Change Reporting Needs and Proposals
Presented by Group 3
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Overview

• Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a cross-cutting
  and complex development issue that requires
  political and legal commitment, public
  understanding, scientific knowledge, careful
  development planning, responsible enforcement of
  policies and legislation, people-centred early
  warning systems, and effective disaster
  preparedness and response mechanisms.
• A multi-stakeholder National Platform for DRR can
  help provide and mobilize knowledge, skills and
  resources required for mainstreaming DRR into
  development policies, planning and programmes.
• DDR is not a legally-binding commitment
• CCA Adverse effects are not felt equally from
  one region / country to the next
• Need for commitment to help the most vulnerable

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• Small island states, coastal systems and other
  low-lying areas are especially vulnerable to the
  effects and impacts of climate change, rising sea
  levels and extreme weather events.
• Millions of people are likely to be affected
  by floods, storm surges, erosion and other
  coastal hazards every year due to rising sea
  levels by the 2080s

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• Lessons learned from Kyoto how can we further
  accountability and real costing of adverse
  effects of climate change spanning the continents
  and regions
• Disaggregating measures to account for regional
  differences in impacts
• Caribbean context coping mechanisms and coping
  capacities

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HFA Climate Change Reporting

• The Caribbean region in particular presents a
  strong need for integrated DRR Climate Change
  Reporting Programmes
• Increase in extreme events rising sea-levels
  are critical issues for the Caribbean in
  particular

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• Vulnerability a function of the character,
  magnitude and rate of climate change and
  variation to which a system is exposed, its
  sensitivity and its adaptive capacity. (Source
  IPCC)
• Adaptive Capacity The ability of a system to
  adjust to climate change (including climate
  variability and extremes) to moderate potential
  damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or
  to cope with the consequences. (Source IPCC)
• Climate Impact Assessment The practice of
  identifying and evaluating the (detrimental and
  beneficial) consequences of climate change on
  natural and human systems. (Source IPCC WG II)
• What does this imply for the Caribbean region
  where (whole) populations will be displaced over
  the next 50-100 years and some islands may even
  disappear entirely?

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Current mechanisms

• National Adaptation Programmes of Action
• National Communication on Climate Change to the
  UNFCC
• Ibero-American Climate Change Offices Network
  (RIOCC)
• Ibero-American Plan surrounding Climate Change
  Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PIACC)
• Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Global
  Climate Change (CPACC)
• Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM)
• The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility
  (CCRIF)
• Five-Year ACS Plan of Action for Disaster Risk
  Reduction in the Greater Caribbean
• Peru is currently developing an agricultural
  insurance mechanism
• others

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Current mechanisms

• The Hyogo Framework for Action specifically
  identifies the need to promote the integration
  of risk reduction associated with existing
  climate variability and future climate change
  into strategies for the reduction of disaster
  risk and adaptation to climate change....
• Unlike Climate Change, HFA reporting and DRR
  measures are only a political commitment and not
  legally-binding
• CCRIF must be strengthened or couples with other
  risk transfer mechanisms to account for climate
  change extreme events, as well as smaller-scale
  events
• Need for cluster of transfer mechanisms
  disaggregated
• Reporting to whom and to what end? Purpose of
  reporting

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Needs

• Need for other intermediate sources
• Need to explore other risk transfer mechanisms
  with a focus on climate change
• Water resources and safe drinking water
• Increasing need for coping mechanisms for
  high-frequency, low intensity events (i.e.
  small-scale events)

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Needs

• Need for true-costing beyond economic incentives
• Incentives / disincentives
• Displacement of environmentally-induced
  populations
• Need to return to land-use planning management
  as a central area of focus
• Beyond assessments, need for coping mechanisms
• Need for ownership and leadership of the DRR
  process at all levels, national and local in
  particular

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Indicators

• Need to strengthen indicators that link DRR CCA
• Need for adequate capabilities for monitoring
  (extreme events)
• Reporting to UN system and to national
  governments
• Planning for displaced populations, in part due
  to rising sea levels
• 50 100 years Who will report and who will
  support medium to long term programming, planning
  and policy

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Indicators cont.

• Country-specific indicators to ensure ownership
  of programmes and mechanisms
• Consideration of local cultural values

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Proposals

• Two-way reporting to facilitate accountability
• Donour responsibility
• Robustness i.e. cultural nuances considered
  accounted for within reporting
• Promote / support the rights of environmentally
  induced migrants
• Land-use management and planning with focus on CC
  DRR
• Priority of water resources and other natural
  resources in medium to long term
• Ecosystem services
• Land tenure within the UN agenda

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• Strengthen CCRIF other risk transfer mechanisms
  with incentives and disincentives (invoke
  Canadian government initiative to promote
  reduction activities
• DRR CC tools and incentives for national
  governments specifically
• Incentives for DRR beyond economic / macro terms

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• Practical guidelines
• Move from theory to practice
• Reporting at all levels, including local
• Programmes for investing in prevention coupled
  with other mechanisms of risk transfer
• Particular focus on high frequency, low intensity
  events
• Mechanisms i.e. buffer for increasing resilience
  to smaller-scale events

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• Use of cost-benefit mechanisms for mitigation
• Strengthening local coping capacities for
  small-scale events lessons learned good
  practices
• Insurance mechanisms with incentives to increase
  resilience, reduce risk, and promote prevention
  through premiums

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Conclusions

• Greater emphasis on HFA in general HFA Priority
  for Action 4 Reduce the underlying risk factors
  in particular
• DRR Priority 4 as a legally-binding reporting
  requirement (along with CCA) commitment
• Move from theory to practice