{"id":5580,"date":"2017-12-09T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T03:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abclive.in\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2017-12-09T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T03:44:30","slug":"know-warsaw-mechanism-climate-change-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/know-warsaw-mechanism-climate-change-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Warsaw Mechanism for Climate Change Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Delhi (ABC Live): Climate Change Impacts : The Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts has submitted its report in COP23 held in Bonn in the Month of November 2017 as following is the action on that:<\/p>\n
The Conference of the Parties, Recalling decisions 3\/CP.18, 2\/CP.19, 2\/CP.20, 1\/CP.21, 2\/CP.21, 3\/CP.22 and 4\/CP.22 and the Paris Agreement, particularly Article 8,<\/p>\n
Noting the concerns raised by Parties on the increasing frequency and severity of climate-related disasters that have affected many countries, including heatwaves, drought, floods, tropical cyclones, dust storms and other extreme weather events, as well as the increasing impacts associated with slow onset events, and the urgent need to avert, minimize and address these impacts through comprehensive risk management approaches:<\/p>\n
inter alia, through early warning systems, measures to enhance recovery and rehabilitation and build back and forward better, social protection instruments, including social safety nets, and transformational approaches,<\/p>\n
(a) Establishing a loss and damage contact point through their respective UNFCCC national focal point referred to in decision 4\/CP.22, paragraph (d);<\/p>\n
(b) Participating in the meetings of the Executive Committee as observers, recognizing the constraints of time and resources;<\/p>\n
(c) Incorporating or continuing to incorporate the consideration of extreme weather events and slow onset events, non-economic losses, climate change impacts on human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation, and comprehensive risk management into relevant policy, planning and action, as appropriate, and encouraging relevant bilateral and multilateral entities to support such efforts;<\/p>\n
(a) To consider, when updating its five-year rolling workplan, cross-cutting issues and current, urgent and emerging needs related to extreme weather events and slow onset events, including but not limited to drought and floods, in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, vulnerable populations and the ecosystems that they depend on;<\/p>\n
(b) To enhance its efforts in ensuring that information generated from its work is converted into user-friendly products, such as tools and methods, and material for training modules, with a view to enhancing the coherence and effectiveness of relevant efforts undertaken at the regional and national levels, as appropriate;<\/p>\n
(c) To consider, through collaboration and partnerships, the development and the dissemination at all levels of user-friendly information and communication products on averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage issues of relevance to the regional and national context;<\/p>\n