Adaptation Adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Adaptation Committee (AC)
The Adaptation Committee was established by the Conference of the Parties as part of the Cancun Agreements (click here) to promote the implementation of enhanced action on adaptation in a coherent manner under the Convention, inter alia, through various functions.
That is obvious. It is one thing to be a scientist and see the future as it needs to be and it is something quite different to gain the cooperation of governments. It is always hoped governments will value sustainability in the way it best benefits the land and people.
Adaptation Fund
The Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable and are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The Fund is to be financed with a share of proceeds from clean development mechanism (CDM) (click here) project activities and receive funds from other sources. It is operated by the Adaptation Fund Board (ckick here).
I am quite sure people in The West look at the organizational element of reversing climate change and are extremely skeptical to provide funding. I can understand that. I feel the same way. I wish there was more involvement by donor countries with those receiving the funds. The Adaptation Fund Board should have members of the IPCC engaged as well. There has to be a link between the science and the funding to carry out the science. I don't believe that exists right now and it should.
I think this is fairly straight forward. It is a word that has expectations. Let's look at Ethiopia. Historically, Ethiopia was a lush land of all kinds of natural systems. As a matter of fact some of that still remains and is naturally coffee bean forests. Ethiopia is the only place on Earth were Coffea Arabica still occurs naturally.
But, because of the shift in climate and land use that never benefited the people, Ethiopia's land is basically hostile to life. It is estimated even the natural coffee forests will be gone in about two and half decades. That assessment was before this:
January 6, 2016
By Whitney McFerron, Isis Almeida and William Davison
Tekle Birhan (click here) clutched her malnourished infant son as she waited to get a food supplement and treatment at an Ethiopian health clinic in early December. It was their third trip in as many months to the facility, located about an hour’s walk from her family farm that has seen almost no rain since July.
The worst drought in 50 years is eroding harvests of everything from corn to sorghum across Ethiopia, compounding a food shortage for a country where 30 percent of the population subsists on less than $1.25 a day. Already sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest wheat consumer, Ethiopia will need $1.1 billion to buy food for more than 18 million people this year, according to a report by the government and humanitarian partners including the United Nations....
In this case, Ethiopia needs a plan to return it's biome. The entire ecosystem is disrupted and is in a downward spiral. It is one of those negative feedback loops. The people no longer have opportunity to even carry out subsistence farming. The land is not tillable. To ADAPT Ethiopia for beneficial opportunities to bring back benevolence to the country it needs enormous funding. There has to be a hydrological study to begin with to determine where the water is, how climate effects it, where are weather patterns and last but not least, "Where best to we put the dams?
It was only a year or so ago there were floods in Ethiopia. Now, while drought is present, Ethiopia still falls into a climate circumstance that brings rain. If there were dams to capture that water and use it to mitigate the drought, the land would bloom again. Once there was return of plant growth, the land would begin to produce it's own water vapor. When that happens rain can return locally with ever increasing growth with each season.
That is Adaptation. It is seeking out where the climate has caused a deterioration of biomes and reverse that trend.
The worst drought in 50 years is eroding harvests of everything from corn to sorghum across Ethiopia, compounding a food shortage for a country where 30 percent of the population subsists on less than $1.25 a day. Already sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest wheat consumer, Ethiopia will need $1.1 billion to buy food for more than 18 million people this year, according to a report by the government and humanitarian partners including the United Nations....
In this case, Ethiopia needs a plan to return it's biome. The entire ecosystem is disrupted and is in a downward spiral. It is one of those negative feedback loops. The people no longer have opportunity to even carry out subsistence farming. The land is not tillable. To ADAPT Ethiopia for beneficial opportunities to bring back benevolence to the country it needs enormous funding. There has to be a hydrological study to begin with to determine where the water is, how climate effects it, where are weather patterns and last but not least, "Where best to we put the dams?
It was only a year or so ago there were floods in Ethiopia. Now, while drought is present, Ethiopia still falls into a climate circumstance that brings rain. If there were dams to capture that water and use it to mitigate the drought, the land would bloom again. Once there was return of plant growth, the land would begin to produce it's own water vapor. When that happens rain can return locally with ever increasing growth with each season.
That is Adaptation. It is seeking out where the climate has caused a deterioration of biomes and reverse that trend.
Adaptation Committee (AC)
The Adaptation Committee was established by the Conference of the Parties as part of the Cancun Agreements (click here) to promote the implementation of enhanced action on adaptation in a coherent manner under the Convention, inter alia, through various functions.
That is obvious. It is one thing to be a scientist and see the future as it needs to be and it is something quite different to gain the cooperation of governments. It is always hoped governments will value sustainability in the way it best benefits the land and people.
Adaptation Fund
The Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable and are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The Fund is to be financed with a share of proceeds from clean development mechanism (CDM) (click here) project activities and receive funds from other sources. It is operated by the Adaptation Fund Board (ckick here).
I am quite sure people in The West look at the organizational element of reversing climate change and are extremely skeptical to provide funding. I can understand that. I feel the same way. I wish there was more involvement by donor countries with those receiving the funds. The Adaptation Fund Board should have members of the IPCC engaged as well. There has to be a link between the science and the funding to carry out the science. I don't believe that exists right now and it should.
All the Adaptations need across Earth will be carried out by engineers, but, not without the help and insight of scientists. So why leave the scientists out of any of the plans to move forward. Put scientists in the middle of the plans' funding and make them a supervisor to return function to land. There are highly qualified scientists with excellent reputations considered to be trustworthy that can turn the corner on this.
Once the Adaptations become reality, the land and the poeple will take care of the rest.
