Promoting Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime

Adaptation is a priority agenda for many developing and vulnerable countries in the world. Adaptation requires substantive resources in terms of financial and human resource capacity. While most of adaptation actions can be planned and implemented at the national level using national resources, there still is a large gap between needs and available resources so that many developing and vulnerable countries need external assistance for enhanced adaptation to climate change. Such a support is possible through funding from a future climate regime to be agreed as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. By designing the future climate regime should enable equitable distribution of resources and needed help for vulnerable countries and support promoting disaster risk reduction including mainstreaming climate change concerns in disaster risk reduction planning. This chapter identifies commonalities between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, stresses the need to promote both in the context of developing countries, and lays out a strategy to rally international support for enhanced adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the future climate regime while identifying challenges and opportunities for the same.

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