Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific

263 Pages·2019·3.803 MB·English

by  Mozaharul Alam, Jeongho Lee, Puja Sawhney

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Mozaharul Alam
Jeongho Lee
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Status of
Climate Change
Adaptation in
Asia and the
Pacific
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Mozaharul Alam • Jeongho Lee • Puja Sawhney
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Status of Climate Change
Adaptation in Asia
and the Pacific
Editors
Mozaharul Alam Jeongho Lee
United Nations Environment Programme KACCC at Korean Environment Institute
Bangkok, Thailand Sejong, Republic of Korea
Puja Sawhney
Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN)
Bangkok, Thailand
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Preface
Information and knowledge are integral parts of adaptation planning, monitoring prog-
ress, and communicating outcomes delivered through undertaking adaptation actions.
Adaptation to climate change is often viewed as a knowledge-intensive exercise.
Adaptation also entails engagement of actors ranging from global to local levels to cre-
ate necessary means such as policies and governance, institutional and individual
capacity, and access to finance and technologies to support adaptation actions.
Environmental multilateralism has made significant progress by setting climate change
as one of the top global issues. Several measures have been taken from global to local
levels for assessing and understanding impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptation to cli-
mate change since the Framework Convention on Climate Change and associated deci-
sions came into force including the Marrakech Climate Accord in 2001 and the Cancun
Framework for Adaptation in 2010. In 2015, the Paris Agreement established global
adaptation goals including enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and
reducing vulnerability to climate change. These indicators in the global adaptation
goal, i.e., adaptive capacity, resilience, and vulnerability, present its inherent challenges
for quantification and comparability, as well as aggregation of information both at
national and global levels, to demonstrate the progress of adaptation.
Monitoring adaptation progress is a new and emerging issue, and needs are
becoming more prominent due to the ratification of the Paris Agreement. Several
initiatives in recent years have been working on this emerging need, and emphasis
is placed on tracking adaptation finance and the flow of funds from developed coun-
tries to developing countries. Academic and research institutes have also developed
different approaches for monitoring or tracking adaptation, focusing on outcomes,
preparedness, and policy, but application of these approaches is limited. Additionally,
a framework for assessing status of adaptation, and monitoring progress against
predefined adaptation goals and/or objectives, and application in Asia and the
Pacific region and subregional levels appears lacking. These gaps inspired the Asia
Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) and its partners to explore and make an attempt
to address this topic. Strong determination and tireless efforts of APAN partners put
together the rich contents in this book on “Status of Adaptation in Asia and the
Pacific Region.”
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In the 2014 APAN, which unceasingly mobilized adaptation knowledge in col-
laboration with a wide range of partners, and the Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
that has supported APAN since its inception in 2009 recognized the gaps and the
need to develop a framework and apply it to assess the status of adaptation in Asia
and the Pacific region. The APAN and its partners has also recognized the fact that
Asia and the Pacific region has made good progress in several areas to advance
adaptation measures including adaptation actions on the ground.
While social, economic, and environmental diversity is high among countries in
Asia and the Pacific, vulnerabilities of social and economic sectors and the adaptive
capacity of society and the economy vary across the regions, subregions, and coun-
tries. Efforts to deal with adverse impacts of climate change also vary, including
adaptation objectives and goals. While expression of adaptation goals varies across
subregions and countries, the overarching goals are meant to protect people, devel-
opment, and ecology from adverse impacts of climate change. Furthermore, priori-
ties for adaptation interventions vary across key economic and social development
sectors and spatial contexts, while adaptation actions are strongly associated with
the most vulnerable sectors and are linked to the economic development and liveli-
hoods of large populations.
This book provides an in-depth assessment and overview of climate change adap-
tation in the Asia-Pacific region and the status of adaptation at subregional levels
(Central Asia, Pacific, Northeast Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia); sectors, i.e.,
agriculture that supports livelihoods of many people; and large ecosystems, i.e., Hindu
Kush Himalaya mountain ecosystem. In addition to an in-depth assessment of the
status of adaptation, the authors have made efforts to identify future actions needed for
enhancing adaptation measures and indicate the support available at international and
regional levels. The book also aims to contribute to current and future discourse on
assessing and communicating adaptation progress at different levels, without prejudg-
ing future outcomes, and implementing the Paris Agreement goals.
The editors express their heartfelt thanks to the Ministry of Environment,
Government of Korea, for providing financial support, and researchers and staff
members of the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) for organizing the authors’
meeting and for the continued support provided to the authors. We acknowledge the
dedication of all chapter authors and support provided by their respective institutes.
These include Climate Action Network South Asia (CAN-SA); International Centre
for Mountain Development (ICIMOD); Local Governments for Sustainability
Southeast Asia Secretariat; Research Centre for Climate Change Adaptation, Keio
University; School of Environmental Science and Management, University of
Philippines Los Baños; Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
(SPREP); Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in
Agriculture (SERCA); and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia
(CAREC). Thanks are due to the staff of Springer International Publishing for their
timely efforts in publishing this book.
Bangkok, Thailand Mozaharul Alam
Sejon-si, Republic of Korea Jeongho Lee
Bangkok, Thailand Puja Sawhney
Contents
1 Adaptation Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mozaharul Alam
2 Measuring Status of Climate Change Adaptation:
An Assessment Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Mozaharul Alam and Saleemul Huq
3 Regional Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Mozaharul Alam and Puja Sawhney
4 Status of Climate Change Adaptation
in Central Asian Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Nailya Mustaeva and Saniya Kartayeva
5 Status of Climate Change Adaptation
in Northeast Asian Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Wanglin Yan, William Galloway, and Ju Youn Kang
6 Status of Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region . . . . . . . . 97
Espen Ronneberg and Peniamina Dougalii Leavai
7 Status of Climate Change Adaptation
in South Asia Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Arivudai Nambi Appadurai, and Sharmind
Neelormi
8 Status of Climate Change Adaptation
in Southeast Asia Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Ranell Martin M. Dedicatoria and Catherine B. Diomampo
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9 Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture
Sector in Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Rico C. Ancog, Mariliza V. Ticsay, and Clarissa D. Ruzol
10 Adaptation in Mountain Agriculture: Food Security
in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Abid Hussain, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, and Golam Rasul
11 Enhanced Actions on Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Mozaharul Alam
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Contributors
Ahsan Uddin Ahmed Centre for Global Change, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mozaharul Alam United Nations Environment Programme, Bangkok, Thailand
Rico C. Ancog School of Environmental Science and Management, University of
the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Arivudai  Nambi  Appadurai Climate Resilience Practice, World Resources
Institutes, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ranell Martin M. Dedicatoria ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability
Southeast Asia Secretariat (ICLEI SEAS), Quezon City, Philippines
Catherine B. Diomampo ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast
Asia Secretariat (ICLEI SEAS), Quezon City, Philippines
William Galloway Research Center for Climate Change Adaptation (RCCCA),
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Saleemul Huq International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Abid  Hussain International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Ju Youn Kang Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change (KACCC)/Korea
Environment Institute (KEI), Sejong, Republic of Korea
Saniya Kartayeva The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC),
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Peniamina Dougalii Leavai Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment
Programme, Apia, Samoa
Bidhubhusan  Mahapatra International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
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