Summary of Recommendations on Data Availability, Access and Use

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Summary of Recommendations on Data Availability,
Access and Use

• by
• Leisa Perch
• MACC PDF-B Technical Coordinator, Organization of
  American States

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Data Needs - Concern

• To obtain from countries, departments and
  regional institutions what are and continue to be
  the challenges with data
• What challenges do countries presently feel they
  experience in addressing an issue such as climate
  change?

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Assessing Needs

• As part of the sectoral consultation process, the
  issue of data needs and challenges were raised
• The review of linkages between climate and key
  economic sectors (Issues Papers)
• during the workshop themselves and
• As part of the working group discussions
• Determining what activities MACC could support
  and mechanisms it could develop to address these
  concerns

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What do Countries Need Information for?

• Improved understanding of the impacts of climate
  variability and change the science of these
  impacts
• The economic and social parameters of the impacts
  at the national, local and community level and
• A better understanding of the ecology and
  eco-systems that would be affected and the level
  at which climate impacts on their operation.
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Current Challenges Experienced by countries

• Availability of data
• The lack of applications that allow them to
  manipulate the data to apply to a given
  situation
• The lack of capacity to use and manipulate the
  data and
• The capacity to determine what is the minimum set
  of parameters they need to make a feasible
  decision.

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Concerns availability

• Persistent challenges of accessing data in
  country and from various departments
• No reasonable assessment of what data exists and
  how often it was collected
• Issues of data quality no standard formats were
  used or practiced
• Limits to data use by the lack of ability to
  compare data sets
• Inability to access data sets from studies
  carried out by consultants 

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Concerns Use and Integration

• The type of data available and how to use it to
  present the type of information needed to
  convince decision-makers and politicians of the
  need to act
• The lack of or capacity to produce data to public
  awareness and education
• No common framework for the use of data and
  inability to combine sets of data and
• The persistent lack of attention to data
  collection at the policy level and the need for a
  long-term and consistent programme.

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Data/Information Needs Disaster and Insurance

• Impact scenarios
• Assessment and determination of critical hazards
  e.g. storm surge, wave and wind
• Climate forecasts
• Documentation of successful practices
• Implications of ENSO on key sectors and the
  probability of disasters

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Data/Information Needs CC and Fisheries

• Ability to distinguish changes in stocks from
  other kinds of environmental degradation and
  climate induced changes
• The role of wetlands as buffers for the coast
• Impacts of temperature change on fish populations
  and the productivity of fishery habitats
• Socio-economic baseline conditions of fishermen
• Data on the dependency of communities and
  households on fishing and associated activities
• Traditional practices addressing changes in
  fishing

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Data Needs CC and Tourism

• Industry needs (accurate climate forecasting)
• Average daily and annual temperature
• Seasonal rainfall patterns
• Hot and cool days per year, sunny days
• Windspeed
• Site elevation
• Wave data

• Policy Needs
• Levels of visitation and use of coastal and
  marine resource (in economic terms)
• Vulnerability assessments of yachting sector
• Challenges posed to health
• Risk and vulnerability of property due to
  location
• Risks of coastal flooding
• Implications for land-use

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Data Needs IRM

• Impacts of climate change on water availability
  and food production
• Agricultural productivity
• Defining social impacts and social vulnerability
• Projections of food and water needs
• Population projects transposed against available
  resources

• Projections for precipitation
• Soil moisture as a contribution to productivity
• Mapping of hazards I.e. drought, erosion, land
  degradation
• Baseline indicators for critical variables

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Potential Recommendations and Actions

• Assessment of traditional knowledge on past
  changes in climate and their effectiveness
• Compilation of lessons learnt and success stories
• Using Statistics as a management tool
• Data credibility needs to be be focused on
• Financial resources need to be allocated for data
  collection

• Mapping and GIS of land use and allocation
• Development of integrated data systems
• Development and maintenance of resource inventory
  systems
• Development of land evaluation systems
• Design and implementation of information policies

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