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Current Activities |
CLIMATE Many
counties in Asia Pacific have limited capacity to develop and adopt
strategies to reduce their vulnerability to changes in climate. Regional,
national and local level measures are needed to combat the adverse impacts of
climate change induced damages. Developing countries in the region have low
adaptive capacity to withstand the adverse impacts of climate change due to
the high dependence of a majority of the population on climate-sensitive sectors,
such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries, coupled with poor infrastructure
facilities, weak institutional mechanisms and lack of financial resources.
Current Activities of CESDAC are aimed at providing a information base to
facilitate the developing countries of Asia and the Pacific in coping with
the potential threats of climate change and include:- ·
Trend analysis of past
climate and hydrological records in south Asian countries; ·
Developing techniques to
improve the ability of global climate models to provide confident regional
information on thermal and hydrological parameters to identify and to
evaluate regional impacts of climate change in Asia and the Pacific; ·
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Research on how the
severity of storms and other extreme hydrologic events might change in future; ·
To identify, analyze and
evaluate the impact of climate variability and change - socioeconomic implications of both impacts and responses in
sectors most susceptible to climate change (Agriculture, Water and Health); ·
To assess the
vulnerabilities (such as engineering design
criteria and operating rules of existing dams and reservoirs under conditions
of climate change OR how climate changes might affect groundwater aquifers,
including quality, recharge rates, and flow dynamics), which also depend on the institutional and financial capacities
of the affected communities, such as farmers, forest dwellers and fishermen;
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To assess the potential adaptation responses (evaluation
of the relative costs and benefits of non-structural management options) and develop technical, institutional and
financial strategies to reduce the vulnerability of the ecosystems and
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