Climate Adaption

Question 1

What are the main climate change risks?

Answer 1

• Increased storm activity
• Sea level rise
• Storm Surges
• Flooding
• Ocean Acidification
• Drought
• El Nino (causes migration displacement and food insecurity)

Question 2

Why is climate change more talked about than other global issues?

Answer 2

• Climate change is an additional stressor on the issues we already face.

Question 3

What is adaption?

Answer 3

• The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaption seeks to moderate or avoid harm or exploit beneficial opportunities
• Climate change adaption is about changing our management and planning practices.

Question 4

In the History of climate change adaption, what did the first generation look at?

Answer 4

• Should we adapt?
• Mitigation - focused
• 1990 to 2000
• IPCC, Article 1 & 2

Question 5

In the History of climate change adaption, what did the second generation look at?

Answer 5

• How do we adapt?
• Strategy focused
• 2001
• IPCC, Article 3

Question 6

In the History of climate change adaption, what did the third generation look at?

Answer 6

• Is adaption occurring?
• Case study focused
• 2007
• IPCC, Article 4

Question 7

In the History of climate change adaption, what did the fourth generation look at?

Answer 7

• What impedes adaption?

- Constraints and limits focused

Question 8

In the History of climate change adaption, what did the fifth generation look at?

Answer 8

• Is it effective
• Monitoring and Evaluation focused
• IPCC, Article 5

Question 9

What are the key framing questions for adaption?

Answer 9

• What are we adapting to?
• How do we adapt?
• What do we want to achieve?
• Who adapts?

Question 10

Draw and label the Key Framing Questions diagram.

Answer 10

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16FjJCOFWz5ynvXAK-XpESXD05IefA35BJCL75vT4HVc/edit?usp=sharing

Question 11

What are some adaption strategies?

Answer 11

• Seawalls for coastal protection
• Ecosystem-based adaption (e.g. planting vegetation to reduce storm impacts)
• Improved emergency management
• Planning regulations (e.g. consider sea level rise)
• Health
• Resilient housing
• Reciprocity
• Policies and Legislation
• Institutional Changes
• Insurance

Question 12

When were the hottest years of Earth recorded?

Answer 12

• The hottest 15 years on record have all been recorded after 1998

Question 13

What happens if the Earth doesn’t stop warming?

Answer 13

• By the end of the 21st century the global average temperature could have risen to about 8 degrees Celsius and if this happens then we could experience some major issues such as food shortage, extinctions and a redrawing of the worlds coastlines

Question 14

What is the process for how is local adaption managed?

Answer 14

• Scale
• Responsibility
• Decision Making
• Implementation

Question 15

What is the “Scale” part of the local adaption management process?

Answer 15

Firstly the scale of the issue is analysed (landscape, community, etc)

Question 16

What is the “Responsibility” part of the local adaption management process?

Answer 16

The second section is where responsibilities will be distributed (legally, regulations, perceptions)

Question 17

What is the “Decision Making” part of the local adaption management process?

Answer 17

This is where government will decide who is involved in making decisions and at what level can decisions be taken.

Question 18

What is the “Implementation” part of the local adaption management process?

Answer 18

Lastly is implementation where adaption is implemented locally

Question 19

What is the decision cycle?

Answer 19

• The decision cycle is used to find appropriate adaptive solutions

Question 20

What is the first and second step of the Decision Cycle?

Answer 20

• Adaption options and risk minimisation

- Select a preferred option, implementing it and then monitoring it

Question 21

What are the 3rd and 4th steps of the Decision Cycle?

Answer 21

• The option is assessed on the climate - affected decisions and overall goals
• Potential impacts within the decisions lifetime?