The PEACE Handbook - People’s Empowerment for Addressing Climate Justice & Environmental Justice (PEACE)

Knowledge of current climate risks and adaptation strategy and the development of scenarios of future climate, vulnerability, and socio-economic and environmental trends as a basis for considering future climate risks Coastal Development Partnership (CDP) © 2010 Knowledge: Develop a better understanding of the details of future climate change. [...] The reliable estimates of the climate change impacts on water resources, crops and livestock at local levels is crucial to adapt and to mitigate climate change impacts on the rural poor. [...] The APF provides guidelines on the ―Vulnerability-based approach‖ including improving access to new markets and supporting livelihood diversification under future climate, and the ―Adaptive-capacity approach‖ focusing on awareness in and the resilience of communities to climate change and variability. [...] The climate change adaptation of the rural population is very important for Bangladesh because 75% of the country‘s total population and 85% of the total poor live in the rural areas and the rural economy as a whole contributes more than 60 percent of total GDP. [...] Given the contribution of agriculture to the livelihoods of general people of the country and its dependence on climate regime, any significant change in climate regime can have far reaching impacts on the overall socio-economic system of Bangladesh.