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The presentation focuses on enhancing the role of agriculture in achieving climate goals by strengthening Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). It highlights agriculture's dual role in both greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate adaptation, noting that food systems contribute to nearly a quarter of global emissions. While most NDCs...

This presentation, delivered at the ASCEND Workshop in Cape Town, addresses how to frame non-economic losses and damages (NELDs) for a systematic synthesis of knowledge in Africa. It emphasises the complexity and multidimensionality of NELDs, shaped by diverse disciplines such as social sciences, environmental studies, law, and politics. The...

This paper highlights significant changes in agricultural land use trends in Asia and discusses the broad set of measures that are being implemented in the region. The increasing population and their demands are primary factors driving land use alterations in the Asia region. Intensive agricultural practices have exerted pressure on ecosystems...

Overall, there was a need and interest in further engagement with WASP on adaptation effectiveness. A stronger linkage to Sri Lanka’s National Adaptation Plan and its implementation is required as key stakeholders and organizations are mostly engaged at the project level. The participants highlighted the following key Adaptation Effectiveness...

Key messages: 1. Climate change results in substantial loss and damage to societies and natural systems when it is not mitigated by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or averted through adaptation. Loss of life, extinction of species and ecosystem destruction are a few of the irreversible repercussions already attributed to unabated climate change...

The South Asian nations have vibrant agrarian economies with a significant proportion of their populations dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. These countries have made significant progress in developing the agriculture policy environment though slowly through concerted actions over the years as a result of which they have increasingly...

CSA projects needs to be bankable. i.e. the project addresses/considers all known financial and economic risks and yields solid financial and economic performance while providing climate benefits. 1. Design synergistic CSA practices meeting dual objectives: climate change risk and vulnerability reduction and GHG mitigation 2. Wherever appropriate...

Thai highlands are characterized by high heterogeneity in vertical and horizontal planes in terms of microclimate, geographical, and socio-economic factors that determine the nature of agriculture practised and livelihoods. Highland agriculture is rapidly changing as commercial farming and plantations are being introduced with detrimental impacts...

The risks, climatic and non-climatic, are increasingly integrating and interacting with each other across geographical and time scales. This is largely happening due to factors and processes outside the purview of the risk management community that they have mostly ignored for most of the risk management history. The recent pandemic COVID-19 has...

Loss and damages (L&D) caused by climate change have become important in international and national discussions. However, the least understood and addressed aspect of L&D is non-economic loss and damages (NELDs). This paper highlights the importance of identifying appropriate NELD indicators and practices to help mitigate them. The findings suggest...