The AIACC Project Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change

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The AIACC ProjectAssessments of Impacts and
Adaptations to Climate Change

• Neil Leary, AIACC Director
• UNFCCC COP-10
• Buenos Aires
• 07 December 2004

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Background

• GEF enabling project
• climate change focal area
• Geographic scope Global
• Implementing Agency UNEP
• Executing Agencies START TWAS
• Collaboration between IPCC, UNEP, START, TWAS and
  developing country institutions

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Sources of Funding

• Global Environment Facility
• Developing countrypartner co-financing
• USAID
• CIDA
• USEPA
• Rockefeller Foundation

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AIACC Objectives

• Build scientific and technical capacity to
  support National Communications and developing
  country participation in intl science
• Advance scientific understanding of climate
  change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation
  opportunities
• Link science and policy communities for
  adaptation planning

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Means for achieving objectives

• Implement regional VA assessments
• Learning-By-Doing capacity building
• Supplement by technical support, mentoring,
  training, and networking
• Engage stakeholders
• Work with National Communications
• Synthesis
• Workshops, publications, science stakeholder
  meetings

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Overview of Regional Assessments

• Africa 11 projects
• Health (1), Agriculture/food security (7), water
  resources (5), land use (3), biodiversity (3),
  rural livelihoods (3), climate system (2)
• Asia 5 projects
• Agriculture/food security (4), water
  resources(4), land use (3), aquatic/wetland
  ecosystems (2)
• Latin America 5 projects
• Agriculture/food security (3), water resources
  (3), land use (1), livelihoods (2), coastal zones
  (3), fisheries (1), extreme events (2)
• Small Island Developing States 3 projects
• Health (1), coastal zones and their resources
  (2), water resources (2), tourism (1)

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Some of the Methods of AIACC Projects

• Climate scenario generation
• Climate risk spaces
• Vulnerability indicators
• Livelihood approaches
• Integrated assessment modeling
• Benefit/cost analysis of adaptation

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The AIACC Data, Methods and Synthesis Website

• http//www.aiaccproject.org
• http//sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/aiacc

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Most Accessed Resources

• Synthesis page Summarizes and synthesizes the
  AIACC projects' research methodologies and
  results
• Toolkit Descriptions of software and computer
  models that are useful in impacts, adaptation,
  and vulnerability assessments
• Methods Summarizes the AIACC projects' methods
  for impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability
  assessment
• Bibliography Contains close to 1,000 citations
  to journal articles, reports, working papers,
  websites, data, and software applications
  addressing climate impacts, adaptation, and
  vulnerability