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Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in
Development Planning:
National Policy Dialogue in SenegalDakar
12-14 April 2010
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GEORGE PERKINS MARSH INSTITUTE
A brief perspective on START and its capacity building activities in Africa
• Human Resource Development: Fellowships, (ACCFP); small grants for research >>> Regional research networks;
• Institutional Strengthening: PASS, Regional research and training nodes; PACOM
www.start.org
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• The Senegal National Dialogue is the fifth in the series of nine dialogues
• Regional training and assessments to follow
• The partners are:
START, EU, UNEP, WCRP, WMO, IPCC
Three regional centers:• IRA/PASS at UDSM, UGhana, BCAS
Local organizers: ENDA (here); others
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Structure of the Dialogue:
• Consider the IPCC Assessments and projections:
Science: • Issues of Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation; Issues
of Mitigation
• Consider Senegal National Issues, Concerns and Strategies
INTENT:
• Foster continued national dialogue across all stakeholder communities, especially the Science-Policy-Practitioner-Civil Society Communities
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• Outcomes:– Informed and engaged communities– Informed participation in national and
international efforts
• Emphasize– Important to have a dialogue ; not just a
series of Powerpoint presentations and Q&A
• A few thoughts…– Perception of Interaction between Science-
Policy-Practitioner communities– Adaptation (and Mitigation) is a dynamic
adjustment process and intimately connected to sustainable development
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Science-Policy-Practitioner communities
Roger Kasperson
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THREE MAJOR TYPES OF Interactions (“SPIDER WEBS”)
• SIMPLE SPIDER WEB
– Strong linkage between science and primary decision makers
– Example: IPCC
• COMPLEX BUT STABLE SPIDER WEBS
– More numerous and complex stakeholders
– Less direct linkage: science and decision making
– Example: Nuclear proliferation
• DYNAMIC AND UNSTABLE SPIDER WEBS
– Complex actors, shifting actors and coalitions
– Diffuse and contentious
– Example: Marine fisheries, sectoral issues and livelihoods
Roger Kasperson
GEORGE PERKINS MARSH INSTITUTE
• Adaptation in a “stationary climate” has been happening, mostly in a reactive fashion
• BUT, normal climate can no longer be assumed! Must engage in anticipatory actions as a dynamic process of adjustment
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Formerly Now and in future
• Stationery climate
• Event and recover
• Droughts
• Coastal floods
• Local disasters
• Humanitarian
• Common concern
• Uncertain changing
• Merging events
• Progressive desiccation
• Sea level rise
• Systemic risks
• Risk reduction
• Common responsibility
Ian Burton
GEORGE PERKINS MARSH INSTITUTE
Integration ChallengesIntegration Challenges
• Adaptation is local, regional, national, trans-border, international, global
• Adaptation is multi-sectoral: water, health, ecosystem services, infrastructure, forests, fish, agriculture
• Adaptation co-benefits or emissions?
• Adaptation is a dynamic process
• Multiple risks, floods, droughts, cyclones and SLR
Ian Burton
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A New ParadigmA New Paradigm
• ADAPTATION as well as Mitigation
• An economic development and an equity issue
• A security issue
• A governance issue
• A long-term imperative
• Resilience?
• A Resilient Senegal in an Adaptive WorldIan Burton
GEORGE PERKINS MARSH INSTITUTE
Good View/perspective …
But, neither good adaptation,
Nor mitigation!!