Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in developing countries
AIMED AT: Policy makers in least developed countries PURPOSE: The document provides examples and ways forward on how the least developed countries can mainstream the adaptation to climate change in their ongoing national development priorities. GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Least developed countries, Bangladesh, Mali TECHNICAL AREA: Mainstreaming the adaptation to climate change in least development countries BASIC STRUCTURE: The LDCs have contributed least to the emission of greenhouse gases, but they are the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change and they have least capacity to adapt to these changes. This report studies the experience of two LDC countries: Mali and Bangladesh. Mainstreaming adaptation in Bangladesh touches upon, among other, major project on integrated Coastal Zone Management, which allowed involved project managers to readily see the utility of incorporating climate change issues into their programming and planning. Efforts made to mainstream adaptation to climate change into national planning and activities in different sectors in Mali have been relatively successful for the agricultural sector, which already has a long history of working on drought prone agriculture. In the area of energy it was moderately successful. However, in other sectors (such as water resources) and at the national policymaking and planning levels, it has been less successful.
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