CGE Training materials - VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION Assessment CHAPTER 10

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CGE Training materials - VULNERABILITY AND
ADAPTATION AssessmentCHAPTER 10
Communication of VA Analysis in the National
Communications
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Objectives and Expectations

• Having read this presentation, in conjunction
  with the related handbook, the reader should
• Have an overview the relevant provisions under
  the Convention on reporting information on
  vulnerability and adaptation (VA) from non-Annex
  I Parties
• Have a basic understanding on how to effectively
  present the results of the VA assessment, taking
  into account the target audience of the report.

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Outline

• Review COP decision on VA reporting
• General guidance for reporting
• Address reporting on
• Methods
• Vulnerability
• Adaptation
• Final thoughts

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UNFCCC Decision 17/CP.8 Reporting Guidelines

• 32. Non-Annex I Parties are encouraged to provide
  information on the scope of their vulnerability
  and adaptation assessment, including
  identification of vulnerable areas that are most
  critical
• 33. Non-Annex I Parties are encouraged to include
  a description of approaches, methodologies and
  tools used, including scenarios for the
  assessment of impacts of, and vulnerability and
  adaptation to, climate change, as well as any
  uncertainties inherent in these methodologies.

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UNFCCC Decision 17/CP.8 Reporting Guidelines

• 34. Non-Annex I Parties are encouraged to provide
  information on their vulnerability to the impacts
  of, and their adaptation to, climate change in
  key vulnerable areas. Information should include
  key findings, and direct and indirect effects
  arising from climate change, allowing for an
  integrated analysis of the countrys
  vulnerability to climate change.
• 35. Non-Annex I Parties are encouraged to provide
  information on and, to the extent possible, an
  evaluation of, strategies and measures for
  adapting to climate change, in key areas,
  including those which are of the highest
  priority.

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UNFCCC Decision 17/CP.8 Reporting Guidelines

• 36. Where relevant, Parties may report on the use
  of policy frameworks, such as national adaptation
  programmes, plans and policies for developing and
  implementing adaptation strategies and measures.

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Communication

• Definition
• The exchange of thoughts, messages, or
  information, by speech, visuals, signals, writing
  or behaviour
• A two-way process of reaching mutual
  understanding, in which participants not only
  exchange information but also create and share
  meaning.

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Communication

• Requires a sender, a message and a recipient,
  although the receiver need not be present or
  aware of the senders intent to communicate at
  the time of communication
• Can occur across vast distances in time and space
• Is complete once the receiver has understood the
  message of the sender
• The purpose could be to generate action, inform,
  create understanding or communicate certain ideas
  or points.

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Communication

• The national communication needs to clearly
  communicate vulnerability and adaptation
  findings
• Describe methods and results of analyses
• Synthesize and integrate results.
• The national communication needs to clearly
  communicate
• Who and what is vulnerable
• How that may vary across time and geographic
  region
• Who will be adapting to climate change
• What is required to adapt
• Where and when.

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First Thing Remember the Purpose

• Who is the audience for the national
  communication ?
• What kind of information do they need?
• How can it be presented to them, most effectively?

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Create a Simple Communications Plan

• Use best-practice approaches from the
  communications industry
• Carefully consider
• Communication objectives
• Audience analysis
• Key messages
• Communication tools
• Action plan.

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Reporting on Methods

• National communications should include a
  description of the methods used
• Remembering that the audience may be
  non-technical
• The description should be concise
• Details can be left to appendices or supporting
  documents.

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Example Jamaicas Second National Communication
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Reporting on Vulnerabilities

• Present details clearly
• Present who and what is most vulnerable
• The key is
• Organization
• Clarity
• Simplicity
• No ambiguity.

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Example Mongolia, Second National Communication
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Example Bhutans Second National Communication
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Example Vietnams Second National Communication
Closed tropical moist semi-deciduous forests
distribution changes, climate change scenario B2
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Reporting Adaptation Results

• The same key principles apply
• Organization
• Clarity
• Simplicity.
• Present adaptation options clearly
• Evaluate or rank adaptations options
• Consider possible effectiveness within your
  country.

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Example Guinea-Bissau Second National
Communication
Extract from Table 34 Strategies and adaptation
measures envisaged
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Example Antigua and Barbuda Second National
Communication
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Helpful Resources

• Communication as a Reform Tool for the UN
• ltwww.unssc.org/web1/programmes/sc/documents/Bookle
  t_FINAL_3.25.02.pdfgt.
• European Association for the Promotion of Science
  and Technology website
• ltwww.euroscience.org/science-communication,33521,e
  n.htmlgt.
• Communicating climate change A toolbox for local
  organizations in the Caribbean
• lthttp//www.canari.org/documents/Communicatingclim
  atechangeAtoolboxforlocalorgansationspdf.pdfgt.

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Conclusions

• All communications, whether intentionally or
  unintentionally, have some effect
• Communication that produces the desired effect or
  result is effective communication
• Effective communication generates and maintains
  the desired effect and serves the purpose for
  which it was planned or designed
• Effective communication also ensures that message
  distortion does not take place during the
  communication process.

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Conclusions (continued)

• A clear synthesis and reporting of results is
  important
• Analytic methods exist for analysing and ranking
  adaptations
• National communications should report on
• Methods
• Vulnerabilities
• Adaptation measures
• Simple methods for reporting results can be most
  effective in clearly communicating them.