UNFCCC NFP Viewpoint

1. UNFCCC NFP Viewpoint David Lesolle Botswana dlesolle@gov.bw

2. ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL WARMING AND RESULTING CLIMATIC CHANGES (2/7) • Adaptation, Adaptation…. • Global warming and climate change. • Adaptation to what.

3. ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL WARMING & RESULTING CLIMATIC CHANGES (3/7) • The results only represented the tip of the icebergs…Assessments were done to assess vulnerability and therefore the reason to Why Adapt. • Typically we run towards adaptation and we never arrive or arrive late.

4. Climate change adaptation to achieve poverty reduction, sustainable development … Concerns and Issues: Floods, Drought, Storms and Cyclones, Heat Waves etc leading to famine, water scarcity, increased risks to livelihoods and human health., Measures and Responses: Vulnerability Assessments, Mitigation Analyses, Identification of Adaptation Options ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL WARMING & RESULTING CLIMATIC CHANGES (4/7)

5. ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL WARMING & RESULTING CLIMATIC CHANGES (5/7)Case of the Tasty “Mophane Worm” • Identify climate element(s) and relate to GW+CC – temperature, humidity, rainfall intensity, season length etc. • What is likely to be affected, Tree, Worm, Butterfly, eggs? • What else/otherwise could be done?

6. ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL WARMING & RESULTING CLIMATIC CHANGES (6/7) LESSONS LEARNT • Develop socio-economic assessment for climate change adaptation. • Improve resolution for climate sensitivity assessment to apply at sub-regional scales – cropping and adaptation is at local micro level (<GCM scales). • Move quickly to upgrade coping capacities and ability of the Africans – kindly special programme for Africa

7. Want to adapt Know how to adapt Peaked Capacity to risk reduction Able to adapt Equipped to adapt ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL WARMING & RESULTING CLIMATIC CHANGES (7/7) LESSONS LEARNT • Remember that Adaptation is not always an option