Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change
15 December, 2009 - 14:46 — Maria Vink
Water resources are vulnerable and already affected by climate change and variability with wide-ranging consequences for societies, their health, economies and the natural environment.
Many countries in the UNECE region have already experienced severe impacts from extreme events and disasters. It is likely that anthropogenic climate change (change caused by human activities) will exacerbate the severity and frequency of those events, as well as affecting the region’s water resources in other ways, e.g. through changing precipitation patterns. The need is to adapt now.
The transboundary nature of water resources in the UNECE region means that risks and challenges are shared and thus solutions in adaptation need to be coordinated between all states in atransboundary basin.
This Guidance aims at providing step-by-step advice for the development of sound adaptation strategies and thereby supporting Protocol on Water and Health in the context of climate change.
Many countries in the UNECE region have already experienced severe impacts from extreme events and disasters. It is likely that anthropogenic climate change (change caused by human activities) will exacerbate the severity and frequency of those events, as well as affecting the region’s water resources in other ways, e.g. through changing precipitation patterns. The need is to adapt now.
The transboundary nature of water resources in the UNECE region means that risks and challenges are shared and thus solutions in adaptation need to be coordinated between all states in atransboundary basin.
This Guidance aims at providing step-by-step advice for the development of sound adaptation strategies and thereby supporting Protocol on Water and Health in the context of climate change.
