OCEAN & CLIMATE - POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COASTAL CITIES TO ADAPT TO SEA LEVEL RISE

Created in the run-up to COP21 in Paris, the OCP aims to promote scientific expertise on the major role played by the ocean and its ecosystems in the climate system, and to advocate for better Compile & by proposing a synthesis of scientific literature consideration of these interactions by national and international decision-makers. [...] 3 political action Declaration, providing recommendations based on concrete experiences and scientific knowledge, • The OCP, together with the Varda Group, has been mandated by the governments of and calling on the international community to France and Costa Rica to facilitate the mobilisation of civil society for the preparation of accelerate adaptation action. [...] NWP-Ocean: Expert Group on “Ocean and Coastal Zones” of the Nairobi Work Programme OCD: Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue a major threat to coastal cities and territories… OCP: Ocean & Climate Platform SAA: Sharm el-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda Coastal cities and settlements are particularly at risk of climate and ocean impacts and continue SBSTA: Subsidiary Body for Scientific and to attract an ever-. [...] Coordination across jurisdictions and at national and international buffering and adaptive capacity of marine and coastal ecosystems to mitigate climate change scales can ensure that the geophysical and societal continuum of the coastline is taken into impacts; planned relocation seeks to reduce risks by moving away human assets and population account for a more cohesive adaptation. [...] To date, there is no international instrument specifically dedicated to the adaptation of coastal cities and capable of providing technical and financial support to the implementation of responses.