On November 10, 2010 the Bay Area Open Space Council convened a workshop at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation to discuss climate change and its impacts on land conservation.
Read more about the event here: http://openspacecouncil.org/blog/by-guest-blogger-kelly-cash-on-the-morning-of-the-day-that-the-san-francisco-giants-would-win-the-world-series-in-the-evenin/
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Adaptation to Climate Change by Rebecca Shaw
1. Photo credits: (Top) Richard Herrmann; (Bottom) Donna McCoy, Macduff Everton 1
Rebecca Shaw
November 1, 2010
Adaptatio
n to climate change
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Outline discussion
• Making adaptation plans relevant
• Ecosystem-based adaptation
• The Window of Opportunity
• Design to Win?
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What are we adapting?
Nature’s managers and their institutions
● planning and strategies
● goals
● partnerships
Nature
● species
● habitats
● ecosystem services
Humans and human settlements
● Protection from sea level rise, floods, & fires
● Reducing human health impacts - relocation to coasts, reallocation of
limited water
4. 4After Marshall et al. 2010
Adaptation planning for slow
directional shifts
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Reducing impacts of natural
disasters
Safeguarding water
Providing clean water
Supporting marine and
freshwater fisheries
Safeguarding crop wild
relatives
Addressing health issues
Making Adaptation Plan Relevant:
Natural Solutions
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Ecosystem-based adaptation
“Ecosystem-based adaptation uses the range of opportunities for
the sustainable management, conservation, and restoration of
ecosystems to provide services that enable people to adapt to
the impacts of climate change.”
“Ecosystem-based adaptation is the use of biodiversity and
ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation strategy to
help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.
● Report of the CBD’s Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and
Climate Change
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Links
● Biodiversity to ecological process
● Ecological process to ecosystem services
● ecosystem services to human systems
Shifts
● Adapting nature for nature
● Adapting nature for people
● ecosystem services to human systems
Makes explicit
● Biodiversity conservation alone
● Biodiversity and ecosystem service conservation with partners
● Costs
Ecosystem-based adaptation
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Promote
resilient eco-
systems
Maintain
ecosystem
services
Support
sectoral
adaptation
Reduce
risks and
disasters
Comple-
ment infra-
structure
Avoid mal-
adapta-
tion
Apply ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
Ecosystem-based adaptation
• Inclusion of ecosystem-based approaches in state and local adaptation
plans;
• Incorporation of biodiversity into land-use management frameworks
• Influence sectoral development plans e.g. for agriculture or water
production
• Identify migration opportunities of coastal zone management
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The Window of Opportunity
The opponents are lining up to oppose adaptation - out of fear and
with little information
With energy legislation stalled nationally and internationally,
much more attention focused on adaptation.
Opportunity to position ecological adaptation as essential to
human adaptation – and it is.
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Design to Win for Adaptation?
• What does success look like?
• What ecosystem services will
be most relevant to
ecological adaptation and
human adaptation?
• Can we provide a road map
for human adaptation that
explicitly support ecological
adaptation
• What are the right sectors to
include in adaptation
planning?
• What will it cost?
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Copenhagen Decision
UNFCCC, COP15, December 2009
Invites parties to undertake impact, vulnerability and adaptation
assessments, including, assessments of financial needs as well
as economic, social and environmental costs and benefits of
adaptation options
Affirms that enhanced action on adaptation should be...
guided by the best available science, traditional knowledge… with
the aim of integrating adaptation actions into relevant social,
economic and environmental policies
Building resilience of socio-economic and ecological systems,
including through economic diversification and sustainable
management of natural resources
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Nagoya, Japan
CBD, COP 10 October 2010
...integrate ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation into
relevant strategies, including adaptation strategies and plans, …
disaster risk reduction strategies and sustainable land
management strategies;
...implement ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation, that may
include sustainable management, conservation and restoration of
ecosystems, as part of an overall adaptation strategy that takes into
account the multiple social, economic and cultural co-benefits for
local communities;
In the planning and implementation of ecosystem-based approaches
for adaptation, different ecosystem management options and
objectives should be carefully considered to assess the different
services they provide and the potential trade-offs that may result
from them;