Reflection of the 5th CBA Workshop
I, on behalf of Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Pokhara, Nepal attended the fifth International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The conference was held for a week from 24-31 March 2011, which was attended by more than 300 scientists, experts and practitioners working on climate change and adaptation from 60 countries of the globe.
The conference included 3 days field visit to different climate change vulnerable sites of Bangladesh and 4 day close session with 21 parallel and plenary sessions of various frontiers of climate change adaptation. The conference was a special one ever I heard and attended on adaptation to climate change because of the three reasons I felt. The first, it was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. The second, it was closed by Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Rajendra Pachhauri. The third but most important, it was the only conference targeted to have brought a large mass of climate scientists and practitioners to share their experiences on scaling up of community based adaptation initiatives to climate change.
The three days long field trip gave an insight on how climate change and climate variability is affecting farming communities and how communities are coping adapting to the climate change and climate variability. The fourth day long parallel and plenary sessions were useful for learning how different organizations in the world are exploring an array of adaptation technologies, options, and mechanisms to upscale these at national and international level. The sharing was fruitful for understanding the challenges for scientific community in adaptation and scaling at various scales.
Last but not least, a global networking with the climate scientists and practitioners and applying the following learning to strengthen the focus of my organization on climate change were special to me.
Key Learning for LI-BIRD
1. Opportunity of developing mechanisms, innovations, and interventions that harness the community knowledge and scientific inputs for adaptation to climate change
2. Dissemination of local level adaptation strategies promoted by LI-BIRD to the national and global level
3. Need of horizontal and vertical flow of adaptation information for scaling up at national and international level
4. Capacity building of local and national stakeholder on adaptation to climate change
5. Integration of mechanisms, innovations, and actions on climate change adaptation in local and national planning
6. Explore or innovate mechanism that brings synergies among adaptation, mitigation, disaster risk reduction, and development
Let us hope the sixth International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change to be held in Vietnam will bring out an in-depth issues and lessons on scaling up of adaptation on climate change with vertical and horizontal flow of information.
Keshab Thapa
The conference included 3 days field visit to different climate change vulnerable sites of Bangladesh and 4 day close session with 21 parallel and plenary sessions of various frontiers of climate change adaptation. The conference was a special one ever I heard and attended on adaptation to climate change because of the three reasons I felt. The first, it was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. The second, it was closed by Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Rajendra Pachhauri. The third but most important, it was the only conference targeted to have brought a large mass of climate scientists and practitioners to share their experiences on scaling up of community based adaptation initiatives to climate change.
The three days long field trip gave an insight on how climate change and climate variability is affecting farming communities and how communities are coping adapting to the climate change and climate variability. The fourth day long parallel and plenary sessions were useful for learning how different organizations in the world are exploring an array of adaptation technologies, options, and mechanisms to upscale these at national and international level. The sharing was fruitful for understanding the challenges for scientific community in adaptation and scaling at various scales.
Last but not least, a global networking with the climate scientists and practitioners and applying the following learning to strengthen the focus of my organization on climate change were special to me.
Key Learning for LI-BIRD
1. Opportunity of developing mechanisms, innovations, and interventions that harness the community knowledge and scientific inputs for adaptation to climate change
2. Dissemination of local level adaptation strategies promoted by LI-BIRD to the national and global level
3. Need of horizontal and vertical flow of adaptation information for scaling up at national and international level
4. Capacity building of local and national stakeholder on adaptation to climate change
5. Integration of mechanisms, innovations, and actions on climate change adaptation in local and national planning
6. Explore or innovate mechanism that brings synergies among adaptation, mitigation, disaster risk reduction, and development
Let us hope the sixth International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change to be held in Vietnam will bring out an in-depth issues and lessons on scaling up of adaptation on climate change with vertical and horizontal flow of information.
Keshab Thapa
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