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Category: Climate and climate change
Title: Estrategia Nacional de Cambio Climático, México, Síntesis Ejecutiva
Organizations: The Inter-Secretarial Commission on Climate Change, made up of Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa), Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (Sedesol), Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat), Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT), Secretaría de Economía (SE), Secretaría de Energía (SENER)
Date: 2007
Language: Spanish
Number of pages: 17
Summary: Mexico's National Strategy on Climate Change outlines a plan and identifies areas for capacity building in order to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions. This strategy focuses on the federal public administration, but equally contributes to a national process that identifies opportunities for emissions reduction and development of mitigation projects; recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of different sectors; calls for projects that develop national and local capacities for response and adaptation to climate change; and proposes areas for action, policies, and strategies that will serve as the basis for the preparation of a "Special Climate Change Program".
Organization: Climate Risk
Date: 2007
Language: English
Number of pages: 75
Summary: In this report, Climate Risk provides an overview of the effects of climate change on bird ecology such as changing in egg laying dates, altered migrations, conflicts between behavior and the environment, and the vulnerability of long-distance migrants. It provides a discussion on how climate change shifts ranges and disrupts communities, affects population dynamics, and more. The report concludes with an overview of the links between climate change and bird extinction, providing case studies from Europe, Mexico, Australia, South Africa, and lists bird groups most at risk of extinction in a variety of different ecosystems.
Title: Managing Mangroves for Resilience to Climate Change
Authors: Elizabeth McLeod and Rodney V. Salm
Organization: World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Date: 2006
Language: English
Number of pages: 66
Eco-Index Summary: This report offers management strategies to promote mangrove's resilience to climate change. It begins with an overview of mangroves, including global distribution, benefits of mangroves, and human threats to mangroves. The report then discusses potential impacts of climate change on mangroves, including changes in temperature, precipitation, and hurricanes and storms, and changing sea levels. The report continues with a discussion of ten strategies managers can apply to promote mangrove resilience, such as protecting key areas, establishing buffer zones, restoring critical degraded areas, maintaining connectivity between mangroves and associated habitats, establishing a monitoring plan, developing sustainable alternatives for local communities, and more. The report concludes with an outline of low-tech tools and methods to enhance mangrove resilience, including changes in sea level, salinity, hydrology, elevation; and high-tech tools to determine mangrove response to past and future changes in sea level.
Title: A User's Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems
Organization: World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Date: 2003
Languages: English
Number of Pages: 246
Eco-Index Summary: The World Wildlife Fund provides guidance on how to promote resistance to and resilience to climate change in a variety of ecosystems including grasslands, forests, alpine/montane systems, the arctic, temperate and tropical marine systems, and freshwater ecosystems. The report also includes a discussion of the ecological and socio-economic benefits of protected areas regarding climate change, and a guide for protected areas managers to conduct regional biodiversity impact assessments for climate change.
Title: International Day for Biological Diversity: Biodiversity and Climate Change
Organization: Convention on Biological Diversity
Date: 2007
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian
Number of Pages: 48
Eco-Index Summary: The Convention on Biological Diversity has published this brochure that gives a comprehensive overview of the effects of climate change on biodiversity, in preparation for the International Day for Biological Diversity, to be held on May 22, 2007. The report begins by providing a general overview on observed and predicted changes resulting from climate change; links between biodiversity and climate change; and examples of activities that promote mitigation of or adaptation to climate change. It then provides more detailed information in individual sub-sections about the effects of climate change on the following ecosystems; polar areas, agricultural, dry and sub-humid lands, forests, inland waters, islands, marine and coastal areas, and mountain ecosystems. It concludes with an overview of how climate change and biodiversity-related conventions consider links between climate change and biodiversity.
Title: El Impacto Socioeconómico y Ambiental de la Sequía de 2001 en Centroamérica (The Socio-economic and Environmental Impact of the Drought in 2001 on Central America)
Authors: Interdisciplinary Team with Support from Regional Organizations
Organizations: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) and the Central American Commission for the Environment and Development (CCAD)
Date: December 2001
Language: Spanish
Number of Pages: 53, with Photographs and Footnotes
Eco-Index Summary: This is an evaluation of the social, economic and environmental impact of the drought that affected Central America in 2001. It includes estimates of the damages caused by the drought, identification of the areas most affected, and a proposal for actions that would address these kinds of phenomena in the future. The report emphasizes that the drought endured by the region in 2001 is not an isolated event, but rather is part of a pattern of long-term climatic variation for the region, which should be taken into account when designing strategies for natural catastrophe mitigation and prevention. The document also explains how the effects of the drought continue affecting the region and how the problem might repeat itself in 2003 due to the possible presence of the El Niño phenomenon the end of 2002.
The report emphasizes the importance of considering internal factors that aggravate the situation, such as environmental degradation and socioeconomic deterioration endured by low-income populations in rural areas. With regard to external factors, the document reveals how the crisis in international coffee prices and the vulnerability of the region to successive climatic phenomena in the past five years contributed to the situation. The drought caused losses of about $162.3 million dollars, of which some 70 percent corresponded to declines in agricultural production.
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