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The role of the 2015 agreement in enhancing adaptation to climate change

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  • Jennifer Helgeson

    (OECD)

  • Jane Ellis

    (OECD)

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Adaptation responses are needed to address the existing levels of climate variability and to prepare for future climate impacts. There is wide agreement that adaptation is an important issue and would benefit from being enhanced through more effective action and better planning. The prominence of adaptation in the UNFCCC negotiations has increased, in part as the scientific evidence has become clearer that climate change is occurring and its impacts are projected to grow in future. Efforts to enhance adaptation actions and increase resilience are thus expected to play a key role in the post-2020 climate agreement to be agreed at COP21 in December 2015. This paper explores how the 2015 agreement can help to foster enhanced policies and co-ordinate planning for greater resilience and adaptation capabilities at the national level. The paper considers the technical advantages and disadvantages of selected adaptation-related concepts that have been put forward in the negotiations. These include proposals for global or national goals; developing or improving adaptation institutions or planning; enhancing information availability; and facilitating or enhancing adaptation finance. Many of these proposals have the potential to improve sub-national, national and international planning about and responses to climate adaptation. However, the actual impact of these proposals is likely to vary significantly depending on how they are implemented on the ground. Le rôle de l'accord de 2015 dans l'amélioration de l'adaptation au changement climatique Des mesures d’adaptation sont nécessaires pour répondre à la variabilité climatique actuelle et se préparer aux conséquences des évolutions à venir. De l’avis général, l’adaptation revêt une grande importance et gagnerait à être intensifiée en améliorant l’efficacité des mesures et la planification. L’adaptation occupe une place plus importante dans les négociations de la CCNUCC, en partie parce que les données scientifiques attestent aujourd’hui plus clairement l’existence du changement climatique et que les projections indiquent que ses impacts iront croissant. Les initiatives visant à intensifier les efforts d’adaptation et renforcer la résilience devraient par conséquent jouer un rôle clé dans l’accord climatique pour l’après-2020 qui sera conclu à la COP21 en décembre 2015. Ce document montre comment l’accord de 2015 peut contribuer à améliorer les politiques et à coordonner les activités de planification pour renforcer la résilience et les capacités d’adaptation au niveau national. Il passe en revue les avantages et inconvénients techniques de différents concepts proposés durant les négociations autour de l’adaptation : établissement d’objectifs mondiaux ou nationaux ; développement ou amélioration des institutions ou de la planification de l’adaptation ; meilleure disponibilité de l’information ; et facilitation ou amélioration du financement de l’adaptation. Bon nombre de ces propositions pourraient permettre d’améliorer la planification infranationale, nationale et internationale des réponses en matière d’adaptation climatique. L’impact réel de ces propositions pourrait cependant être très différent selon la façon dont elles seront mises en oeuvre sur le terrain.

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  • Jennifer Helgeson & Jane Ellis, 2015. "The role of the 2015 agreement in enhancing adaptation to climate change," OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers 2015/1, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:envaab:2015/1-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jrxg3xb0h20-en
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    Keywords

    2015 agreement; accord de 2015; adaptation; adaptation; CCNUCC; changement climatique; climate change; UNFCCC;
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    JEL classification:

    • F53 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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