Current Coping Strategies

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Current Coping Strategies and Adaptation to
Climate Change
Dr. Barry Smit Professor of Geography Canada
Research Chair in Global Environmental
Change University of Guelph
UNFCCC Expert Workshop on Local Coping
Strategies New Delhi, 12-13 November 2003
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Existing Coping Strategies to Current Climate-Rela
ted Risks
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Climate-Related Risks are Part of Climate Change
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Climatic Conditions as Part of Climate Change
(IPCC TAR 2001)

• more hot days and heat waves

• fewer cold days, frost days

• more intense precipitation events

• increased risk of drought

• increased tropical cyclone peak wind
  intensities

• increased Asian summer Monsoon precipitation

• increased intensity of mid-latitude storms

• intensified droughts and floods

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Scenario-Based Approach
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Vulnerability Approach
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• Current climate risks are part of climate
• change

• Local coping strategies are the basis for
• adaptation to climate change

• Technologies are just part of adaptive
• capacity

• Promotion of Adaptation (as committed to
• in UNFCCC) requires local level initiatives