Climate Vulnerable Forum Roadmap

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