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.