Adaptation & Mitigation

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These activities promote scientific, technical, environmental, economic and social actions that contribute to stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level that will prevent dangerous interference with the climate system, thus avoiding, reducing, or delaying impacts.

[Mitigation of climate change]

• Renewable Energy Programme
• Bio-carbon Sequestration and Conservation to Combat Climate Change: Promoting Rural Development, Energy Solutions, and Biodiversity
• Ocean Carbon Sequestration Watching Brief

[Adaptation to climate change]

These activities improve our understanding of the capacity and mechanisms for ecological and social systems to adjust to changes in climate, to take advantages of opportunities or to cope with the consequences, through an integrated approach that examines the range of environmental, economic, informational, social, attitudinal and behavioural conditions that determine vulnerability and adaptive capacity.

• Groundwater for Emergency Situations
• Water Programme for Environmental Sustainability: Towards adaptation measures to human and climate impact
• Water and Development Information for Arid Lands (G-WADI)
• Integrated Urban Water Modelling and Management under Specific Climates
• Adaptation to Coastal and Climate Change in West (UNDP/GEF)
• Sandwatch Science in Action
• University Consortium of Small Island States
• International Year of Planet Earth
• Climate and World Heritage Sites
• Space Technologies to Assess Climate Change
• Climate and Disaster Reduction
• Climate Education for Sustainable Development
• Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystems
• Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands
• Global Change in Mountain Biosphere Reserves
• Quranic Botanic Gardens Project
• The Camel Farm Project From Tradition to Modern Times
• Reporting Climate Change
• The role of UNESCO in China Climate Change Partnership Framework - efforts to promote adaptation for climate change in the Chinese Yello River basin (More)
• Climate Change Knowledge (CliCK) Partnership