Selected Climate Change

Issues

Gender and Climate Change

Climate Change impact will be distributed differently
based on ages, class, income groups, and genders.
Poor women are more vulnerable, but they are also a
powerful agents of changes
IUCN is influencing change in policy to allow for
inclusion of gender and biodiversity;
IUCN is also supporting more equal participation of
women in decision making finally, they also enhance
adaptive capacity of women as well

Gender and Climate Change

Case Study1 : GGCA
IUCNs work is carried out with Global Gender and
Climate Alliance, Womens environment and
development org, and over 25 UN agencies and
stakeholders
They organized training to develop capacities, as well
aim to deal with gender sensitivity, int law instrument,
gender mainstreaming, etc

Climate Change and Environmental law

IUCN Environmental law programs is designed to
assist decision maker with info, legal analysis, etc .
Case Study 1: Reducing Emission from deforestation
and forest degradation in developing countries(REDD)
Environment Law Centre has published national legal
frameworks, including, ownership of forest, participation
and right, revenue sharing, etc

 Case Study 2: TEMATEA-synergies between climate

change and biodiversity
UNEP-UNFCCC TEMATEA project aims to provide legal
framework for implementation of commitment and
obligation, a checklist, support the development of
national plans, and so on.
Aims to reach the Biodiversity Target

Oceans, Coasts, and climate change

Ocean play a crucial role in climate regulation, absorb
solar heat, worlds largest carbon sink, drive global
water
Rising sea levels, warming temperatures cause both
ocean thermal expansion and ice-melting process
If the current rising trend continues, by 2100 it will
rise up to 1m , which will cause catastrophic
consequences
Ocean Acidification: ocean absorb of anthropogenic
emission annually; however, because ocean acidity
has risen, it disrupt the throughout food chain

 Coral bleaching: coral reefs are often severely

affected due to its high sensitivity of thermal stress
over next 20-40 yea, many of the remaining coral
reef will be lost
Melting polar ice: Average Arctic temperature increase
almost double in the past 100 years; within the next
30 years Artic could be entirely ice-free during
summer

 IUCN response:Global Marine Program engages in

research and analyze maritime climate change issues.
Adoption and resilience work is key area of GMP.
Case Study 1: Climate change and coral reef working
group (CCCR)
as a mechanism to focus on scientific contribution,
synthesize the relevance of resilience science, bridge
the gaps, a forum of info-exchange, inform policy makes

 Case Study 2: European Project on Ocean Acidification

Produce the knowledge on, assess vulnerability of,
marine ecosystem threaten.
Aims to document the change of ocean composition,
quantify the impacts, to integrate solution and impacts,
to access uncertainty, risk, threshold.

Social Policy and climate Change

Climate change has enormous social implications, in
particular poverty, equity, and human right.
IUCN response: focus on the links between social and
ecosystem vulnerability as a conceptual and policy
guidance
Case Study: Climate change and development project
aim to support community-based adaptation.
Activities includes: analyzing adopt frameworks,
provide recommendation, training, facilitating
discussion

Species and climate change

Global warming implicated the cases of species
decline across marine, territorial, and freshwater
ecosystem globally, in which it will the driver of
species extinction in 21st
IUCN response
Some species are much more susceptible to climate
change due to their life history and their ecological,
behavioral, physiological, and genetic trait.

 Case Study: Mac Arthur project

Project to identify the biological trait of species. The
type of climate change susceptibility will be complement
in IUCN red list of extinction.

Water and Climate change

Drought, severe storm, and flood will become more
frequent and intense.
Different location for adaptations: low-lying deltas and
coastal state, dry land, mountain and river, and small
island.
IUCN response help govt and public to use the water
basin and coast.
Water initatives

Thank for your attentions

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