Strategic International Knowledge Sharing and Communications

Adapting to Climate Change in China

• Developing countries are at a lower capacity to adapt and have limited local best practice for new challenges.

• Sharing experience and advances developed in other countries can release this burden and provide practical approaches and experience for reducing vulnerability to climate change.

• Global shift away from a supply-driven adaptation projects to longer-term national planning. All this would be strengthened if underpinned by coordinated knowledge sharing between countries at similar stages of development.

• Significant recognition of this at an international level, leading to institutional arrangement. • China as a “laboratory “for climate change adaptation. The practical approaches developed in

China are of global importance, i.e. slow onset, transboundary issues. • With the National Adaptation Strategy in its final stages, China has experience to share of

responding to climate impacts with a coordinated, cross-ministry strategy to mainstream adaptation into Chinese policy.

• China (alongside India) is being increasingly looked to by other developing countries to stimulate mutual learning and capacity development.

• Public commitments - Xie Zhenhua announcing four major areas of work at COP17, Rio promises. • 12FYP, White Paper of China’s Policy and Actions in Responding to Climate Change and the White

Paper on Foreign Aid also provide for similar assistance to developing countries to support their adaptation measures.

Rationale for Knowledge Sharing

Strategic IKS and communication for the ACCC Project is a systematic approach to better understand our stakeholders and therefore effectively communicate the lessons of ACCC to them through tailored and targeted products and events. The result will be evidence based decision making for climate change adaptation and increased resilience to the impacts of climate change in China and target developing countries.

• Systematic: planned strategies utilising key channels and UN frameworks

• Delivering Objectives; focused on increasing resilience

• Understanding audiences: research, influencer mapping, direct engagement

• Connecting with them: tailoring via combined efforts, credible voices, international partners & platforms (i.e. CDKN, UN) - using channels they rely on and trust

• Increasing Resilience: delivering and measuring our impact through M&E

Strategic Communication to Reduce Vulnerability

Our IKS & Communication Principles

Prioritise ruthlessly SMART objectives

Look for

Common Ground with your audience

Promote

Real SubstanceDon’t rely on jargon

“Golden Thread”

What’s your story and how do you tell it?

Use

Credible Voicesto promote your message

Understand your Audience

What are their needs? In what format and language

do they need it?

ENGAGE, AMPLIFYYou can’t influence if you’re

not in the conversation

Scoping & Audience Mapping

Objective setting

Strategy & Delivery

PlansTailored

Products & Engagement

Delivery & Monitoring

Evaluation

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Driven by audience research, quality assurance, key dissemination

opportunities and evaluation throughout

Mapping ACCC’s Audience

ACCC Identified Research Highlights

Tailored and Targeted Engagement

Global Academic

Community

IPCC and International

Journals

Global Policy Community

UNFCCC, UNCSDAsian

Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

Global Platform for Disaster Risk

ReductionInternational

Water Summit UNEP Global

Ministerial Environment

ForumAsia Water Week 2012

CBA7

Adaptation Community

IGOs, NGOs, Donors,

Research Institutions

and Knowledge

Sharing Platforms

South-South Countries

Policymakers, NGOs and Research

Community in:Angola,

Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South

Africa, Bangladesh, Indonesia,

Nepal, Grenada and Jamaica

Audience Mapping 1 – Global Academic CommunityInternational Journals ACCC work has been published in IPCCAdvanced Atmosphere, SCI Assessment Report 5 – Working Group 1

Applied Zone Research Assessment Report 5 – Working Group 2

Arid Zone Research SREX Report

Quaternary International

Climate Research

Economia Agrariay Recursos Naturales

Journal of Hydrology

Journal of Climate

Northwest Academic Journal

Journal of Hydrometerology

Atmospheric Environment

International Journal Medical Parasitic Diseases

Atmospheric Environment

Regional Environmental Change

Environmental Health Perspective

UNFCCC

Convention - Art 4.1(b), (e), (f)Art 4.4, Art 4.8, Art 4.9

Kyoto Protocol

Art 10(b)

All Parties

shall formula

te, implem

ent, publish

and regularl

y update national

and regional programmes

containing

measures to

mitigate climate change

& measur

es to facilitat

e adequat

e adaptati

on to climate change

COP10(first mandate)

Nairobi Work

Programme

To improve understanding

& assessm

ent of impacts

, vulnera

bility and

adaptation; and make

informed

decisions on

practical

adaptation

actions and

measures

Cancun Accords

Cancun

Adaptatio

n Framewor

k

To enhance action on adaptation, through international

cooperation &

coherent

consideration of matter

s relating to adaptation

Adaptatio

n Committe

e

To promote

the implementation of enhance

d action on adaptation in a coherent manner (through i.a. technical support, com

munication, evaluation

linking work, body of good practice)

Durban Platform

Work Programme on Loss

& Damage

To consider approaches to address loss & damage associated

with climate

change

impacts in

developing

countries tha

t are particularly vulnerable to

the adverse

effects of climate

change

LDC National Adaptatio

n Planning

To enable

LDCs to formulate

and

implement NAPs, building on the NAPAs experienc

e of identifying

MT and LT adaptation needs and

developing

and

implementing strategies.

Modalities are to be shared with

other

countries.

Cancun Adaptation Framework

Support

Long-term, scaled-up,

predictable, new and additional

Technology

Financ

e

Capacity Buildin

g

Implementation

Loss & Damage LDC

NAPAs (finished)

NAPs

Institutions

Adaptatio

n Committe

e

Regional

National

Forum Objective How we support ACCC Activities

UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme

To assist all Parties to:1. improve their understanding and

assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change;

2. make informed decisions on practical adaptation actions and measures to respond to climate change on a sound scientific, technical and socio-economic basis, taking into account current and future climate change and variability.

We support this through:- Official partnership with the NWP, and engagement with expert workshops and knowledge sharing.- Directly improving understanding & assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change through capacity and direct assessment in key sectors on a national and provincial level in China.- Supporting evidence-based decision-making by providing policy relevant data and tools.

Current activities:- Official Partner organisation - focal point meetings, pledge- Experts sent to technical workshops (i.e. Water in Mexico)

Planned:- Experts submitted to the roster- Updates to the pledge- Case studies for the knowledge sharing database

UNFCCC Cancun Adaptation Framework :Capacity Building, Finance and Technology Transfer

To enhance action on adaptation through international cooperation and coherent consideration of matters relating to adaptation under the Convention.

We support this through:- domestic implementation of capacity building and research on appropriate financial mechanisms. -- feeding into the Third Review on CB for Economies in Transition (due before 2016) as part of ACCC’s M&E work.

When the Capacity-building information portal is launched in Autumn 2012, we will share experience there.

- Developing and delivering capacity building activities for researchers, policy makers and communities- Supporting the strengthening of national-level institutional arrangements for adaptation.- Financial and technical approaches for adaptation action, such as CRCPP and NDRCC’s research on risk transfer, and the development of RCMs with UK Hadley Centre Met Office for improved regional climate science.

UNFCCC Work Stream on Loss and Damage

To strengthen international cooperation and expertise in order to understand and reduce loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including impacts related to extreme weather events and slow onset events.

We support this through:-considering approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in China.- improving understanding of disaster risk and slow onset events.

Experts sent to the Asian Experts meeting in Bangkok to present on China’s experience, particularly with slow onset events.

5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

To enhance DRR at the local level as part of strategic venue to build nations’ and communities’ resilient to disaster.

We support this through: -Integrating Local Level Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into National Development Planning- Local Risk Assessment and Financing Strengthening Local Risk Governance and Partnership.

A joint side event with CDKN and the Red Cross on Risk Transfer and innovative mechanisms to protect vulnerable people at the local level. An expert from NDRCC will appear.

UNCSD Rio+20 To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges.

We supported this through:-Contributing to events on assessing progress and identifying gaps for sustainable development,-- Presenting on responses to new and emerging challenges such as climate change adaptation and desertification.

ACCC Speakers at a series of side events from the launch of Brazil’s National Panel on Climate Change, UNEP’s China Focus panel, two Oxfam events, Actionaid side event on Community Risk and Vulnerability and a high-level panel convened by the World Bank to discuss Inclusive Green Growth with 3 Ministers and the Dep MD of IMF.

Audience Mapping 2 – Global Policy Community

Audience Mapping 3 - Adaptation CommunityNGOs IGOs Research Institutes Knowledge Platforms

Adaptation Partnership (AP) Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC)

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)

Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)

CARE International Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), CARICOM

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia

Christian Aid Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

International Development Research Institute (IFRI)

Capacity Development on Climate Change

Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

International Food Policy Research Institution (IFPRI)

Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

Conservation International (CI) Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Climate-l (run by IISD)

Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)

International Centre for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

ClimateTech Wiki

International Conservation Union (IUCN)

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

World Resource Institute (WRI) Climate Change Knowledge Portal

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Regional Development Banks United Nations University (UNU) Eldis (run by IDS)

Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET)

UN Development Program (UNDP) Pew Center on Global Climate Change Gateway to the UN System’s Work on Climate Change

International Institute for Environment &Development (IIED)

UN Environment Programme (UNEP) The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) Global Development Learning Network (GDLN)

Oxfam UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

Munich Climate Insurance Initiative Nairobi Work Programme

Tearfund UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)

Tyndall Centre Online Inventory of UN System Activities on Climate Change

Water Aid World Bank Overseas Development Institute (ODI) SDplanNET – Asia & Pacific

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) World Heath Organization (WHO) Met Office Hadley Centre World Bank Institute

Audience Mapping 4 – South-South CountriesCountry Ministries NGOs Research InstitutesAngola Ministry of Urban Affairs & Environment CC DARE, ACPC, LDCF, ADB, AfricaAdapt

Ajuda de Desenvolvimento De Provo para Provo em Angola (ADPP)

Catholic University of Angola Agostinho Neto University

Ethiopia Environment Protection AgencyThe Prime Minister’s Office

CC DARE, ACPC, LDCF, ADB, AfricaAdaptPoverty Action Network Ethiopia (PANE)SOS Sahel Ethiopia Action for Development

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Addis Ababa University

Kenya Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources Climate Change Coordination Unit (Office of the Prime Minister)

CC DARE, ACPC, LDCF, ADB, AfricaAdaptKenya Climate Change Working GroupKenya Tea Development Agency Ltd.

International Livestock Research InstituteKenya Agricultural Research InstituteKenya Meteorological Department

Rwanda Ministry of Natural ResourcesRwanda Environment Management Authority

CC DARE, ACPC, LDCF, ADB, AfricaAdaptRwanda Development Board

Kigali Institute for Science and Technology Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

South Africa

National Climate Change Committee: Department of Environmental AffairsMinistry of Environment and Mineral Resources

CC DARE, ACPC, LDCF, ADB, AfricaAdapt Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Bangladesh Ministry of Environment and Forest Care BangladeshBBC Media ActionInternational Centre for Climate Change & DevelopmentARCAB

Centre of Participatory Research and DevelopmentBangladesh Centre for Advanced StudiesBangladesh Unnayan Parishad BRAC Development InstituteRefugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit

Nepal Ministry of Environment: Nepal Climate Change and Development PortalClimate Change Council

Climate Change Network NepalPractical Action Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Centre

Nepal Academy of Science and TechnologyNepal Climate Vulnerability Study TeamNepal Development Research Institute

Indonesia Ministry of National Development PlanningNational Council on Climate Change

Indonesia Climate Change CenterEconomy & Environment Program for Southeast Asia The Indonesian Water Partnership

Center for International Forestry Research Research Consortium on Climate Variability &Climate ChangeUniversity of Indonesia

Grenada Ministry of Environment, Foreign Trade and Export Development

CCCCCCaribsavePanos Caribbean

Jamaica Ministry of Water, Environment &Climate ChangeEnvironmental Management Division

CCCCCCaribSavePanos Caribbean

Planning Institute of Jamaica University of the West Indies

Targeted Delivery Channels

ACCC Events i.e. April Conference

Publications

Website

Word of mouth

Social/community networks

Knowledge Sharing Platforms

Journal Publications

Opinion formers

Presentations

Face-to-face meetings

Stakeholder & Partnership channels

PresentationsPolicy engagement at UN Events

Interviews

Product features i.e. partner blogs

Event coverage

Distribution list for research findings & publications

The Power of Partnership

Strategic Communication: How We Share

Website: Clearly explaining the project and sharing our

resources for a national and international audience

A planned, focused and measurable series of communication, dissemination and policy-

relevant products that work in an integrated way to support ACCC’s objectives

China South-South Study on CCA: SMART research for adaptation cooperation

between 10 target countries in Africa, Asia and the SIDS CMA Data Distribution Site:

Providing essential data to East Asian met offices

Key Research Findings & Case Studies: Communicating lessons learnt in an accessible, tailored

manner

Documentary: Telling the story of China’s adaptation

Book: Comprehensive publication on ACCC to be published November 2013

New Branding: Updated logo, materials and key messages for

international stage

Adaptation Manual: Practical training materials ready for publication in time for

ACCC’s International Conference

Examples of International Policy Activities• Delivery plans around international policy events and key

milestones, through direct policy engagement and tailoring and launching of relevant publications and products

• Rio+20 – 8 side events, including the World Bank with 3 Ministers

• Nairobi Work Programme – NWP Partner Initiative and active in Focal Point and Technical Expert Meetings i.e. Water Workshop in Mexico

• UNFCCC Losses & Damages – Asian Expert Meeting, experts filled the gap of slow onset lessons from China’s experiences

• Asia Adaptation Platform Meeting – Direct engagement with regional community, presentations on China lessons

• 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction – Joint event with CDKN and the Red Cross

• International Journals – Articles published in 12 international journals to date

• IPCC SREX Report – 7+ contributing authors

Further Reference…

• Section 8 of the Annual Review Folder contains the full strategy, planning and reports on activity to date.

Sophie-lashford@ccadaptation.org.cn