Community-Based Climate Resilience

Study Notes

Adaptation refers to actions taken to reduce vulnerability to actual or expected changes in climate.

Mitigation: actions to reduce the sources or increase the sinks of greenhouse gases.
REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation): actions designed to use market and financial incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR): aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them.
Maladaptation: an adaptation action that leads to increased vulnerability to climate.
Community-based Adaptation (CbA): a community-led process based on communities' priorities, needs, knowledge, and capacities, which should empower people to plan for and cope with the impacts of climate change.
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA): the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.

Coping: refers to actions taken in response to an extreme event, like a storm or drought, to ensure survival and often results in a long-term decrease in wellbeing.
Resilience building: helps ensure that ecosystems and communities can return to a normal state of wellbeing following an extreme event or other climate-related disturbance.

The goal of development is to enhance human wellbeing for the world's poor.
Development activities must seek ways to improve human wellbeing and build resilience to extreme events and other disturbances.

Impacts will affect different communities differently based on their specific circumstances.
Solutions must be location-specific.
Community knowledge is essential in developing adaptation strategies.
Four elements are necessary for successful adaptation: social mobilization, skill development, appropriate technology, and awareness.

Co-management and public-private partnerships can facilitate environmental action in the context of climate change.
A collaborative approach is necessary to address climate change challenges.

Adaptation is recognized as an essential component to enhance resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Climate resilient development integrates adaptation measures and their enabling conditions with mitigation to advance sustainable development for all.
Building climate resilience requires engagement of all actors, including governments, civil society, and the private sector, to anticipate climate risks and hazards.