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Adaptation planning is an important activity to help countries manage climate risks. Plans, policies or strategies are in place in more than 70% of countries. Adaptation planning is also now found in subnational government, sectors and cities. Developing countries can receive international funding to help them develop national adaptation plans. This is an important step for countries to scale up the implementation of adaptation. The extent of implemented adaptation actions is below what is needed to manage risks at current levels of climate change. However, adaptation also has to anticipate future risks of climate change. Overall, the economic costs of adaptation to climate change are likely to cost billions of dollars annually for the next several decades.
To reduce the impacts of climate change on African countries, adaptation measures are required at multiple scales – ranging from local to national and regional levels.[1] The first generation of adaptation projects in Africa can be largely characterized as small-scale in nature, focused on targeted investments in agriculture and diffusion of technologies to support adaptive decision-making.[2] More recently, programming efforts have re-oriented towards larger and more coordinated efforts, tackling issues that spanning multiple sectors. According to a 2023 study, 59% of African banks have a climate change policy in place, with another 22% planning to implement one. 65% of banks presently consider climate risk when evaluating new clients or projects, with another 23% expecting to do so in the future.[3]
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- Enhancing support for autonomous forms of adaptation;
- Increasing attention to the cultural, ethical, and rights considerations of adaptation (especially through active participation of women, youth, and poor and vulnerable people in adaptation activities);
- Combining "soft path" options and flexible and iterative learning approaches with technological and infrastructural approaches (including integration of scientific, local, and indigenous knowledge in developing adaptation strategies)
- Focusing on enhancing resilience and implementing low-regrets adaptation options; and
- Building adaptive management and encouraging process of social and institutional learning into adaptation activities.
suggestions for the climate adaptation section.
- para 1. relocate the sentence about mitigation at the top (to para 4) and bring in another sentence about what adaptation actually does - reduce climate risk via addressing vulnerability and exposure (give examples for these so it is more relatable)
- transformative adaptation is not defined (and in any case might be hard to understand, so suggest to replace this to say that there are limits to what people and societies can adapt to)
- The first two decades of the 21st century saw an increase in adaptive capacity in most low- and middle-income countries - this needs a reference if it is to stay - ND-Gain could be used
- para 2. we can add some numbers on the number of countries with adaptation plans/instruments
- para 2 . here the article discusses specific hazards and sectors at risk. Do we want to write more on these ? Suggestions would be:
- (1) include other main hazards such as drought & rainfall variation, heat, and flooding, storms, wildfire (I think the passage overemphasises SLR compared to these hazards ) or - - (2) structuring subsections as risks and options for ecosystems, water, food, cities, human health, communities and livelihoods (6 sections?) (based on the IPCC sectoral chapters. 2-8) . See what we have done in the climate change adaptation page under 'sectoral and regional risks' . This would be an improvement as for example there is not much on health risks (and adaptation options) currently in the climate change page. It would also bring in line with climate change mitigation section 'Reducing and recapturing emissions' which has 4 sections about energy generation, energy consumption, agriculture and industry
- para 3 it would be good to link to nature based solutions mention how it connects to urban adaptation (and mitigation) in this section
- para 4 synergies - link to the more recent concept of climate resilient development (?). mention that the less successful in acieving emission reductions the greater the needs for climate change adaptation and link it back to limits
related concepts:
While adaptation implies risk reduction, some responses may also increase climate risk (p2431). There could be unintended consequences negatively affecting other people who were not part of the group or groups for whom risks were reduced.
- ^ Climate Analytics. "Africa's Adaptation Gap, Technical Report: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation Challenges, and Costs for Africa" (PDF). Climate Analytics.
- ^ Troni, Jessica (2018). Climate change adaptation in Africa: UNDP synthesis of experiences and recommendations. OCLC 1079881730.
- ^ Bank, European Investment (2023-09-27). Finance in Africa: Uncertain times, resilient banks: African finance at a crossroads. European Investment Bank. ISBN 978-92-861-5598-7.
- ^ a b "Finance in Africa report finds that banks want to move faster into green lending". European Investment Bank. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ a b Bank, European Investment (18 November 2021). Finance in Africa: for green, smart and inclusive private sector development. European Investment Bank. ISBN 978-92-861-5063-0.