climate change

CVA

-Community based adaptation -Based on community priorities, needs, knowledge and capacities, which empowers people to plan for and mange the adverse effects of climate change

DRR

-Disaster risk reduction -The actions to reduce socio economic vulnerabilities to climate and non climate related disasters -Storms, floods, drought, famine, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and conflict -Climate change makes more extreme weather disasters, so DRR is more important -The way in which natural resources are managed has the potential to contribute to DRR -Looks at past conditions to predict the future

REDD

-Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation -The use of financial incentives to avoid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting forests -Climate change mitigation strategy -Can deliver co-benefits like biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation

Ecosystem based adaptation

-The use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change -Main goal is to help PEOPLE adapt to climate change -Biodiversity and ecosystem services are means by which to help people

causes of global warming

1. CO2 increase from pollution 2. destroying natural resources to absorb CO2

how to reduce vulnerability

1. adaptation 2. mitigation

adaptation process

1. raising awareness around changes in climate 2. designing strategies that account for the changing climate 3. building capacity to adapt 4. learning by doing 5. creating governance structures to support adaptation

effects of climate change adaptations

1. reduces vulnerability to slow onset changes 2. reduces vulnerability for species and ecosystems 3. anticipates future conditions

mitigation

actions reduce and avoid new greenhouse gas emissions to help slow down the rate of global warming and climate change

climate smart conservation

addressing climate related threats and non climate related threats in the context of climate change

maladaptation

an adaptation action that leads to increased vulnerability to climate

climate

average weather of place over a period of at least 30 yeats

coping

how people manage problems after they have suffered a loss from something that they had not prepared for in advance

climate change

long term changes in weather average, weather extremes, and climate variability

adaptation

measures to reduce vulnerability to actual and expected changes in climate and the effects of those changes

vulnerabilty

potential to be harmed

impact

resultant damage to property, livelihoods or ecosystem health caused by a hazard

development

seeks to enhance human well being through measures that improve health, nutrition, education, livelihoods and the environment

hazard

situation that can cause harm

carbon sinks

take in the CO2 from the atmosphere (forests)

resilience

the ability of a system to absorb impacts and then recover

weather

the daily fluctuation in temperature, precipitation, wind speed, cloud cover, etc.

global warming

the rise in global average temperature due to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by human activity

climate variability

yearly fluctuation above or below an average value for temperature, precipitation, etc.