CLIMATE VULNERABLE FORUM ROADMAP
by Anton Antonio
June 23, 2015
The impacts of climate change are felt more strongly in
Asia, the most vulnerable region in the world.
Asian countries are already experiencing the impacts from increased
intensity and severity of typhoons, drought and rising sea level.
Through the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), Asian countries
are networking strategies to prepare for threats caused by climate
change-related natural disasters. The
CVF is an international initiative chaired by the Philippines was organized by
the Climate Change Commission of the Office of the President of the Philippines
with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other
national and international partners and co-operators. CVF member-nations are Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Maldives, Philippines, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. Participating
governments to the CVF include Cambodia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New
Guinea and Tajikistan.
To improve the Asian regional
response to climate change, the CVF agreed to the following climate actions:
1. Strong national coordination among
institutions and departments as well as vertically within national structures
and at the different governance levels.
2. Mobilization of community and civil society
in climate action and knowledge exchange between governments, experts
and communities.
3. Reinforce national institutional capacity and
human resources for realizing climate action.
4. Increased transfer, exchange and diffusion of
technologies and expertise between and among developed and developing countries.
5. Enhanced balance, access to, and coordination
of, international climate finance, and institutional capacity for
national and international financial responses to climate change.
6. Greater regional cooperation and coordination
(knowledge sharing, information management, technology transfer and
development, policies).
7. Promoting understanding and awareness among
communities and the private sector including through an enhanced role of the
media.
8. Providing more effective enabling conditions
for greater private sector engagement in driving climate action.
9. Accelerate climate-smart industrial
development essential for diversifying vulnerable sectors of economies.
10. Enhanced infrastructure, research funding,
and capacity for hydro-met and socio-economic data and scenarios for more
accurate and robust policy-making.
Climate actions such as those postulated in CVF regional
meetings like this will be considered in the formulation of the CVF Roadmap.
Just my
little thoughts…
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REFERENCE:
Environews.ph, (2015). “Climate Change Vulnerable Countries
Push for Asia Climate Change Action”.
Retrieved on June 23, 2015 from http://environews.ph/climate-change/climate-change-vulnerable-countries-push-for-asia-climate-action/
Fastcoexist.com, (2015). “These are the Countries Most
Vulnerable to Climate Change”. Retrieved
on June 23, 2015 from http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031376/these-are-the-countries-most-vulnerable-to-climate-change
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