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Ecosystem-based Adaptation
Regional Strategies to Address Climate Change
Elliot Harris, UN Environment
sustainable management, protection,
restoration or transformation
of biodiversity and ecosystem services
as part of an overall adaptation strategy
to help people adapt to climate change
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Outline
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Why are EBA strategies important?
The regional dimension
Examples / case studies
Key messages
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• Adaptation measures that use natural ecosystems can
greatly reduce climate change impacts
• Readily available, cost-effective, low-regret approach
providing multiple co-benefits
• Support integrated delivery of sustainable
development goals (2 hunger; 11 resilient cities; 13
climate change; 14 oceans; and 15 life on land…)
Why are EBA strategies important?
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• Marine and coastal ecosystems as well as climate
impacts are transboundary
• Regionally coherent, ecosystem-based adaptation
planning and implementation enhances efficacy
• Sharing of approaches, tools, data and experiences
Regional strategies for national impact
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Regional Seas
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A regional approach to
increase resilience
In the context of the
Mediterranean Strategy for
Sustainable Development
and Barcelona Convention
=> develop and implement
coherent, effective policies
and measures
Mediterranean Regional Marine and
Coastal Adaptation Framework
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Mediterranean Regional Marine and
Coastal Adaptation Framework
Objectives, directions and
priorities to promote:
• an enabling environment
for mainstreaming
adaptation in planning
• exchange of best
practice, data and tools
• leveraging of funding
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Lami Town, Fiji
Scenarios combining
conventional and ecosystem-
based approaches
(mangrove and riverbank
restoration)
Economic analysis of
lifecycle benefits and costs
Decision support in adaptation planning on
Pacific small islands
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Locally appropriate,
replicable model
Application in National
Adaptation Planning and
at local level
Optimizing adaptation
spending
Exchange and scaling up
through SPREP
Decision support in adaptation planning on
Pacific small islands
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Mangroves, seagrass
beds and coastal
marshes
Very high value in terms
of erosion reduction,
fishery productivity
Exceptionally carbon rich:
sequestration and
avoided emission
Realizing the adaptation and mitigation
benefits of ‘blue carbon’
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Regional protocols and
initiatives for protection
and sustainble use
Methodologies for
effective management
and generating cashflow
Implementation of pilot
projects
Realizing the adaptation and mitigation
benefits of ‘blue carbon’
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Ecosystem Based Adaptation supports integrated
delivery of Sustainable Development Goals
Regional planning for implementation of Sustainable
Development Goals provides a key entry point to
enhance and scale up Ecosystem Based Adaptation
Regional Seas and other relevant regional mechanisms
provide existing platforms to advance effective use of
Ecosystem Based Adaptation approaches
Key messages
Thank you
Elliot Harris
UN Environment, New York Office
www.unep.org