Water Banks in Mexico (CONAGUA)

Provides access to information for appropriate decision making, integrated free consultancy regarding transmission of rights, guidance on technical and hydrological characteristics.

Reports

• Water banks in Mexico

Guidelines to plan actions against droughts (DOF)

Guidelines developed to plan actions which may be developed before, during and after droughts. Actions are presented as illustrative examples and promote stakeholder participation.

Guidelines

• Guidelines to plan actions against droughts

Protection of Population Centers Program (CONAGUA)

Aims to prevent risk and respond to the effects caused by floods in population centers through feasibility studies and construction of infrastructure.

• Hydro Management System

Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (RDP)

Multi-stakeholder platform that enhances water-based climate change adaptation by formulating policy recommendations, drawing up of inventory of water and climate change adaptaton actions, organization of events.

Presentations

• Water and climate change in the Americas
• Inventory on water adaptation
• Local adaptation plans

Dialogs for Water and Climate Change (D4WCC) (CONAGUA)

Multilateral partnership aiming to raise awareness of the importance of water resources management for climate change adaptation and provide platform for knowledge sharing and generating common understanding.

Output

• Regional position paper on water-based adaptation to climate change
• Message of the Synthesis Team

Project to Strengthen Integrated Water Resources Management in Mexico (PREMIA) (CONAGUA; WMO)

Collaborative implementation of activities in thematic areas for Integrated Water Resource Management and for climate change  adaptation of the water sector through technical and financial support. Further continuation of actions aiming institutional strengthening, capacity development, development of products and services for water sector adaptation. 

Documents

• Water and climate change in the Mexico 2007-2012

Studies to characterize the regions of the country according to climate change

Diagnoses each of the 13 river basin organizations in terms of climate trends, water management and expected changes in hydrological dynamics, vulnerabilities.  Analyses general scenarios and expected impacts of climate change.

Atlas of Water Vulnerability to Climate Change in Mexico (IMTA)

Evaluates the impact of climate change in six main sectors based on the generation of climate scenarios allowing the effects of climate change on the national territory to be analysed and appreciated with great precision. Pinpointing where the availability of water resources would be reduced and to what extent.

Presentation

• Atlas to Vulnerability to Climate Change

Modernization Program of the National Meteorological Service (MoMet) (SMN)

The World Bank-funded programme has been based on an institutional diagnosis and proposed strategic plan for the national meteorological service carried out by the WMO aimed at modernization over a 6-year period.

• World Bank Project Data

Studies on funding for water-based climate change mitigation and adaptation

The two studies  provide technical assistance, capacity development and technology transfer to strengthen and consolidate actions implemented within the framework of the Mexican water sector’s planning and funding to favour the development of the water sector. Develop actions diagnosis and improvement of the Water Financing System and identify sources of funding.

National Implementing Entity of the Climate Change Adaptation Fund in Mexico (ENI Mexico)

A mechanism to finance concrete climate change adaptation projects and programs in vulnerable areas.

• National Implementing Entity of the Climate Change Adaptation Fund in Mexico

Water Funds (FEMSA Foundation; TNC; Inter-American Development Bank)

Innovative mechanism of large-scale conservation based on the payment for environmental services in which the investments of downstream users are used to preserve water source with the aim to create and capitalize at least 32 funds in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

• FEMSA Foundation 2011 Annual Report
• Investing in water funds

Rainfed Infrastructure Program K132, with Hydrological-Environmental Watershed Restoration and Water Management and Soil Preservation (CONAGUA)

Series of infrastructure measures as adaptation to high-intensity hydro-meteorological phenomena expected to occur with greater frequency in the basins of Mexico’s humid tropics. 

Construction of the Eastern Drainage Tunnel (CONAGUA)

Allows the deficit in the rainwater evacuation capacity to be complemented during rainfall, as well as the alternate maintenance of the deep drainage during the dry season.

Statistical Regionalization of CMIP5 models for Mexico

Obtains projections for temperature and precipitation change through implementation of a method known as Reliability Ensemble Averaging and inclusion of the range of uncertainty in the new models of the IPCC.

Rockefeller Foundation Activities

Creating robust action models of climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people; Funding, promoting, and disseminating those models; Increasing pressure on funders, practitioners, and policy-makers to support increased funding and action for climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people.

Projects

• Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network
• Strengthening Food Security: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) 

Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (Rockefeller Foundation)

Conducts learning and capacity exchange to address multi-sector impacts of climate change. Assesses and develops resilience planning and adaptation methods to reduce vulnerability.

Projects
Urban Climate Change Resilience

Documents

• Tale of two cities: Developing city resilience strategies under climate change scenarios for Indore and Surat, India
• Living with Floods: A Grassroots Alalysis of the causes and Impacts of Typhoon Mirinae

UN-HABITAT - Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI)

Cross-scale education in climate change impacts and development of adaptive measures. Disseminates information, replicates and up-scales actions amongst network partners. Supports measures to mainstream capacity-building actions across scale and sectors.

UN-HABITAT - Cities and Climate Change Initiative Asia Pacific

Supports the integration of climate information into national and city policies and develop action plans. Develops awareness, knowledge exchange and capacity building strategies on local, national and continental levels.

Asia-Pacific Regional Strategy

Country Activities

• Lami Town, Fiji
• Apia, Samoa
• Port Vila, Vanuatu

Cities in Asia Develop Climate Change Adaptation Plans (ICLEI)

Develops awareness and knowledge on adaptation and the capacity to act. Facilitates long-term collaborative actions between academics and decision-makers to establish local impacts of climate change and project future scenarios. Develops decision-making aids for adaptation strategies.

Government of Australia - Climate Adaptation through Sustainable Urban Development

Collaborative partnership with CSIRO. Facilitates investigation on integrated urban water management systems with policy makers, managers and researchers. Assesses the impacts of climate change and water usage on infrastructure and resource management issues and the implications for sustainability.  

Case Studies

• Makassar, Indonesia
• Can Tho, Vietnam
  

Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change by Integrating Climate Risk into Long-Term Development Plans and Disaster Management (APN)

Assesses short and medium-term impacts and responses relating to flooding events to inform on the potential for long-term adaptive capacity. Creates a platform to discuss risk with the object of its integration into investment and development plans.

Final Report
Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change
 

Five-City Network to Pioneer Climate Change Adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa (IDRC)

Informs on community-based best practice in adaptation to facilitate urban adaptation strategies and planning.

European Commission Activities
(EC)

Integrating adaptation into existing community policies, funding instruments and research and expanding the knowledge base on adaptation, as well as integrating European society into future adaptation actions.

Strategy
Green Paper on Adaptation in Europe

Open Consultation
EU Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction in Developing Countries

Example legislation

• Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection
• EU Forest Action Plan

Example activities

• ADAM Consortium
• European Climate Change Program

Funding
Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)

Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development

Builds on local initiatives to capitalize on renewable natural ressources to improve sustainable livelihoods.

Example project
Adaptation to Climate Change and Human Health under the CLACC Project