#INTRODUCTION
Climate change and its impacts have become one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. Climate-related risks, whether concurrent or prospective, need to be addressed swiftly as part of development strategies at all levels.
With population expansion and rapid industrialization in both developed and developing countries, policy-makers need to ensure resilience to the possible exacerbation of risks caused by hydro-meteorological hazards due to climate change. However, understanding the science of climate change and integrating adaption measures into development policies and practices has become a challenge for development and disaster risk reduction practitioners.
#TRAINING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the science, systems and societal issues of climate change, impacts of climate change and their linkages with climate-induced extreme events
- Assess specific sector vulnerabilities to climate change in different settings
- Utilize decision support systems for assessing climate impacts, vulnerabilities and risks and use the tools for designing climate risk management policies, programs and interventions
- Discuss climate change planning processes for designing climate risk management policies, strategies, programs and interventions
- Identify a menu of options for climate risk management to a given context
- Share good practices and lessons learned on climate risk management (CRM) from different contexts
- Develop hands-on skills on how to develop a CRM initiative using the existing knowledge in an innovative learning environment
#KEY TAKEAWAYS
- concepts and emerging directions of climate change and climate risk management
- Science behind climate change: greenhouse effect etc.
- Climate Change and climate variability
- Emerging directions of Climate Risk Management practice
- climate change projections and decision support tools in climate risk management
- Accessing Local Climate Scenarios and Climate Risk Mapping
- Use and applications of the projections and climate model outputs in planning and policy formulation
- climate change and urban built systems
- Urban infrastructure, common amenities, drainage and flood controls
- Water, sanitation and hygiene and health
- climate change and rural ecosystems
- Sustainable livelihoods
- Agriculture and food security
- climate risk management planning and implementation
- Climate resilience indicators in urban built environment
- Climate resilience indicators for coastal environment
#EVENT DETAIL & HOW TO REGISTER ONLINE TODAY
LOCATION: NAIROBI KENYA
DURATION: 5 DAYS
DATE: 12 JUNE 2017
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