Integrating Adaptation into Low Carbon Development Plans

Building low carbon and climate resilient economies is a means by which nations can reduce poverty and achieve economic sustainability.

Feeding into WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative (GCEI), this study on integrating adaptation and climate resilience into low carbon development policies will serve as a resource for governments on how to develop climate change resilient national development plans. The study will synthesize the lessons learned from government-led initiatives in countries such as the Philippines, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, China, India, Nepal and South Africa and will contribute analyses and options for integrating adaptation measures into low carbon frameworks.  It will also identify opportunities and best practices on how to build synergies between mitigation and adaptation initiatives within countries in order to ensure that low carbon frameworks are also climate resilient.

The final report will inform discussions at an international level:

• firstly, by serving as an input to negotiations on adaptation under the UNFCCC with the aim of informing discussions on how international frameworks could support the development of effective climate resilient low carbon national development plans; and


• secondly, by presenting opportunities for South-South and North-South partnerships to enable support for the development of these frameworks.

For further information on this initiative, contact Dr. Murray Simpson via e-mail on murray.simpson@caribsave.org.