Disaster Resilience in UNFCCC and Sendai Framework

Harjeet SinghChairperson

Alliance for Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (AADRR)mailforharjeet@gmail.com

Context

• “Adverse impacts” include both extreme weather events and slow onset events

• Adaptation issue has grown immensely in the last 15 years

• From a non issue to now being dealt at par with mitigation

• Development/humanitarian and environment communities engaged and developed ideas around community and ecosystem based adaptation (C/EBA).

Cancun Adaptation Framework 2010

• Focuses on vulnerability • Alligned with, compliments and builds on

disaster risk reduction (DRR)• Promotes resilience building• Identifies displacement, migration and

planned relocation as key issues

National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

• Agreed in 2010• About medium to long term plan and two main objectives:

– To reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience;

– To facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities, in particular development planning processes and strategies, within all relevant sectors and at different levels, as appropriate.

• Technical guidelines prepared, primarily for LDCs, in 2012• Builds on the experiences of disaster risk management• Global goal on adaptation likely to be agreed at COP21, Paris• INDCs in adaptation will largely reflect NAPs and therefore should not be

treated as mitigation

NEW Sendai Framework for Action on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

• 7 targets

Substantially reduce :1. disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower average per 100,000 global mortality between 2020-2030

compared to 2005-2015.2. the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000

between 2020-2030 compared to 2005-2015. 3. direct disaster economic loss in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030.4. disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational

facilities, including through developing their resilience by 2030.

Substantially increase :5. the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020.6. international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement

their national actions for implementation of this framework by 2030.7. the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and

assessments to the people by 2030.

• Developing indicators in conjunction with SDGs• Climate change identified as a one of drivers of disaster risk

Key issues

• Different ministries / departments for DRR and adaptation

• Limited interaction between NDMA and MoEFCC• DRR and Climate change adaptation practitioners

have just begun to coordinate • Climate change / DRR issues not yet integrated at

the implementation level• Slow onset issues are not on the radar of DRR

community

Approaches to address

• Joint missions of NDMA and MoEFCC for vulnerability assessment and planning

• Regular interaction between CSOs working on development, DRR and adaptation, in partnership with the government

• Capacity building of local level officials should be done on a war footing basis.

• Regular monitoring of local level implementation • NDMA should initiate joint work with MoEFCC on slow

onset, particularly sea level rise, glacial melt, recurrent droughts and ocean acidification.

• Sharing of strategies and lessons learnt by all stakeholders

Thank you