GCCA+ Discussion Topics - # 1 Adaptation Policy Development

The Global Climate Change Alliance + (GCCA+) intends to launch, over the next year, a series of discussion topics regarding climate change adaptation. These topics will range from strategic, applied and financing adaptation issues; a new topic will be introduced every 6-8 weeks. The main objective is to stimulate innovative thinking, sharing information and experience, build technical and cooperation partnerships, and to create novel and applicable climate change knowledge. The GCCA+ Support Facility will moderate the discussion in an effort to summarize all comments and contributions in a series of documents and papers.

The first topic proposed to discuss within our community is:

Policy development across various spatial and temporal scales. LDC countries are struggling to include climate information in long-term development planning (Jones et al. 2015 (811), Ensuring Climate Information guides long term development, Nature Climate, 812-815, attached fyi). Ensuring climate-resilient development requires a step change in how medium- to long-term climate information is produced, communicated and utilized.

1. From your experience and/or knowledge, what are the applied (and most successful) methods used to develop various climate change policies over the medium-long term that would be basedon climate information?
2. What kind of technical and tools have you been applying to integrate climate change information in long-term development of key sectors AND  in developing local and decentralized policies at smaller spatial scales?
3. How do you ensure that update climate information is periodically considered in policy development?

Guido Corno, GCCA+ Support Facility

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