Governance and policy
- Building climate adaptation strategies into development programming
- This paper identifies common coping mechanisms of migration, trading assets, diversification of crops and adoption of alternative sources of income. Detailing options for mainstreaming adaptation strategies into broader development processes, it finds that addressing current actions to strengthen livelihoods would be the least costly way to promote adaptation whilst targeting the most vulnerable groups.
Research on the governance and policy aspects of climate adaptation in developing countries has clustered around mechanisms established through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and The Kyoto Protocol. Examples are the National Adaptation Programmes of Action, which provide a way for the Least Developed Countries to communicate their urgent climate adaptation priorities and adaptation funding facilities, such as the Adaptation Fund or The Special Climate Change Fund, which each have complex backgrounds, operational rules and procedures.
Other research on climate adaptation policy has tended to focus on the links between adaptation financing and regular overseas development assistance and on ways of mainstreaming climate adaptation into Millennium Development Goals, Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans and key sectors traditionally charge with development responsibilities.
Work examining how adaptation knowledge is transferred, the links between mitigation and adaptation and on how institutional and organisation structures contribute to adaptive capacity is also beginning to emerge. However, considerable gaps still exist; particularly with research exploring good governance and the design of institutional architecture for adaptation at national, regional and local levels and with studies about how vulnerable communities can be linked more closely into national and international climate policy-making.
Other research on climate adaptation policy has tended to focus on the links between adaptation financing and regular overseas development assistance and on ways of mainstreaming climate adaptation into Millennium Development Goals, Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans and key sectors traditionally charge with development responsibilities.
Work examining how adaptation knowledge is transferred, the links between mitigation and adaptation and on how institutional and organisation structures contribute to adaptive capacity is also beginning to emerge. However, considerable gaps still exist; particularly with research exploring good governance and the design of institutional architecture for adaptation at national, regional and local levels and with studies about how vulnerable communities can be linked more closely into national and international climate policy-making.
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