Mercy Corps

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• Climate Change Disaster Risk Reduction
• Practitioner perspectives

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Why climate change is relevant
Climate and DRR

• Climate change threatens
• Past development legacy
• Current programming
• Future stability of communities engaged

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Accepted Impacts
Climate and DRR

• Increased warming (1.8 4 0C by 2050)
• Higher sea levels (7 38 cm by 2020 and an
  additional 19 104 cm by 2080)
• Shifting weather and agricultural patterns
• Increased natural disaster

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Interlocking themes
Climate and DRR

• Adaptation and mitigation
• Disaster risk reduction
• Economic development carbon
• Urban focus

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Examples Jakarta Goma
Climate and DRR

• Jakarta
• Climate and DRR in urban contexts
• Goma
• Climate (carbon) funds and DRR

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Examples Jakarta
Climate and DRR

• Indonesia Jakarta
• 240m. people 40 on lt US 2/day
• 50 urban, 21m in slumsPer year
• 1.1 population growth
• 3.3 urban growth

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Examples Jakarta
Climate and DRR

• Current hazardsPeriodic severe flooding
• Subsidence
• Relative sea level rise of 40 60 cm by 2025
• Fresh water table inundated by salt water to 15
  km inland
• Poor infrastructure
• Insecurity, crime, poverty squalor

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Examples Jakarta
Climate and DRR
Flooding
Slums

• Urban Poverty Reduction 3 pillars
• Address inadequate provision of services
• Improving community-based rights and
  organizational capacity
• Support economic development opportunities

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Identify the main effects of climate change
Impacts of climate change on Jakarta
Exacerbating / contributing factors

THREE MAJOR EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN JAKARTA
More Intensive Rainfall
Increase in Temperature
Sea level Rise
Poor Sanitation Management
Change in crop productivity
Increase of air pollution
Breeding for vector borne diseases because
theres no sanitation system
Drainage problems
Economic impact on industries/ factories/ coastal
livelihoods
Salination of aquifer
Loss of coastal lands
Poor Drainage System
Disease respiratory
Solid waste and sanitation problems
No Green Areas
Clean Water Crisis
Change in biodiversity fishers and coastal
industry
Unemployed people
Higher food prices
Less absorption of rainfall into groundwater
Disease from garbage
Displacement of Communities
Increase vulnerability of poor
Malnutrition
Flooding
High water table
Water Supply Crisis
Poor sanitation, contamination of grey water with
feces/ waste water
Disease
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Examples Jakarta
Climate and DRR
Hazard Mapping Waste and Sanitation
focus Government policy
Flood Risk Reduction
Micro insurance scheme
Livelihood Security / Econ Ops
Climate Change in urban settings
Need further discussion
Land and policy
Renewable energy affordable to the poor
Energy
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Examples Jakarta
Climate and DRR

• Necessary action
• Recognize agency programming footprint is tiny
  compared to the scale of the challenge being
  tackled
• Scale up activities through partners in
  government, civil society and private sector
• COMMUNITY-BASED ACTION IS NOT ENOUGH

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Examples Goma
Climate and DRR

• Goal
• Fuel self sufficiency through fuel efficient
  stoves and agroforestryRationale
• Improved human security
• Improved food security
• Reduced pressure on local natural resources

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Examples Goma
Climate and DRR

• Fuel efficient stoves (FES) less carbon
  emitted
• Agroforestry carbon captured
• FES Trees Carbon credits

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Take home points
Climate and DRR

• Climate change will worsen current hazards and
  bring new ones there is a need to consider
  longer term threats that may not be immediately
  apparent
• Economic opportunity may arise through creative
  disaster response