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Towards a Climate Impact Monitoring Indicators, archetypes and success factors for action . Jürgen P. Kropp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Reserach. Budapest, Sept. 4-5 th 2008. COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Brussels, 29.6.2007 COM(2007) 354 final - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIESBrussels, 29.6.2007
COM(2007) 354 final
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Climate change: building adaptive capacity of local and regional authorities
Awareness/knowledge is a necessary, but not sufficient precondition for adequate action!
Drowning New Orleans
by Mark FischettiScientific American (October 1, 2001)
The boxes are stacked eight feet high and line the walls of the large, windowless room. Inside them are new body bags, 10,000 in all. If a big, slow-moving hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the right track, it would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under twenty feet of water. "As the water recedes", says Walter Maestri, a local emergency management director, "we expect to find a lot of dead bodies".
New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen. The city lies below sea level, in a bowl bordered by levees that fend off Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River to the south and west. And because of a damning confluence of factors, the city is sinking further, putting it at increasing flood risk after even minor storms. The low-lying Mississippi Delta, which buffers the city from the gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh - an area the size of Manhattan - will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million people inside and another million in surrounding communities. Extensive evacuation would be impossible because the surging water would cut off the few escape routes. Scientists at Louisiana State University (LSU), who have modeled hundreds of possible storm tracks on advanced computers...................
• Problem awareness is primarily framed by potential impacts in the case study regions, little explicit knowledge on policy responses, exposure units are only described in a very vague or general way.
• Climate change is still not a priority on the local or regional level, and lack of financial resources hinders adaptation.
• Many constraining institutional arrangements are seen as informal. They have the form of complaints about “soft factors” as missing knowledge and citizens’ awareness, inadequate education, political inaction and bad coordination of diverse institutions.
• Problems are more found on the local scale, while enabling institutions and actors are seen on higher levels. It is likely that there is a shift of responsibilities to higher institutional scales (mitigation?).
• Most existing climate change policies are related to• Natural hazards (event related)• National greenhouse gas mitigation strategies
• Although some responses advert at local interactions between actors influencing implementation of adaptation policies, there is little strategic knowledge on who supports or constrains adaptation to climate change.