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Linking
Climate to Adaptation
Climate Change
Greenhouse
gas emissions are increasing global temperatures leading to unprecedented
changes in precipitation, rising sea levels and the intensity and frequency
of extreme events such as floods and droughts.
Climate change has major implications for development, particularly for
vulnerable countries and communities who have contributed least and have
fewer resources to cope with the additional shocks and stresses a changed
climate will bring.
ZERO is
participating in the Linking Climate to Adaptation Project being funded by DFID and coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) based at Sussex University in United Kingdom.
The project aims at facilitating inter-action among adaptation related experts and affected communities through a collaborative research network and carrying out a series of case studies. The objective of this interdisciplinary Project is to ensure that poor people benefit from adaptation processes, rather than bearing greater burdens, by, for example, having the risks caused by climate change shifted in their direction. The key research aim of the LCA Project is to determine what kind of procedural and institutional frameworks are needed to ensure that locally determined adaptation needs are linked “upwards” to national and international policy and institutional structures? The launch the project took place in October 2004 at IDS, Sussex.
The first project workshop was held on 4-6 October 2004 in Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom where the participants agreed on the common framework and outline to be used when reporting the case studies.
Project Activities
LCA Project Partners are undertaking six country case studies covering Asia (Bangladesh, India, China) and Africa (Senegal, Kenya, and Zimbabwe) because the majority of the world’s 1.2 billion poor reside in these regions. The case studies will provide examples of “good practise” community led adaptation focusing on food security and agriculture.
ZERO identified the Tongwe Project based in Beitbridge. Surveillance was carried out at the project sites and photos were taken to give a human face to the challenges and adaptation strategies. The case study
was finalised and forwarded to the project coordinators.
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about the LCA Network
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