Integrating Climate Change
Adaptation and Mitigation in
Development Planning:
National Policy Dialogue in Senegal
Dakar
12-14 April 2010
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A brief perspective on START and its capacity
building activities in Africa
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Human Resource Development:
Fellowships, (ACCFP); small grants for
research >>> Regional research networks;
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Institutional Strengthening: PASS,
Regional research and training nodes;
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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
Structure of the Dialogue:
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Consider the IPCC Assessments and
projections:
Science:
• Issues of Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation; Issues
of Mitigation
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Consider Senegal National Issues, Concerns and
Strategies
INTENT:
• Foster continued national dialogue across all
stakeholder communities, especially the SciencePolicy-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 SciencePolicy-Practitioner communities
– Adaptation (and Mitigation) is a dynamic
adjustment process and intimately connected
to sustainable development
Science-Policy-Practitioner communities
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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
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• 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
Formerly
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Stationery climate
Event and recover
Droughts
Coastal floods
Local disasters
Humanitarian
Common concern
Now and in future
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Uncertain changing
Merging events
Progressive desiccation
Sea level rise
Systemic risks
Risk reduction
Common responsibility
Ian Burton
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Integration 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
A New Paradigm
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• 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 World
Ian Burton
Good View/perspective …
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But, neither good adaptation,
Nor mitigation!!