Примеры использования Impact and vulnerability assessments на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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Integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.
Impact and vulnerability assessments: this session covered different aspects of the assessment process, including the types of assessment methodologies;
Participants identified the following follow-up actions with regard to impact and vulnerability assessments.
Participants argued that impact and vulnerability assessments should be integrated into the wider development policymaking processesand be considered together with other policy objectives and priorities.
But there is no single method to integrate all the necessary social-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.
Integrated impact and vulnerability assessments: this session comprised two parts, one on systematic observation, data and monitoring, and the second on impact, vulnerability and adaptation assessments; .
Whereas some of the basic data are simply not collected,some are gathered in a way that is not useful for impact and vulnerability assessments.
Promoting development and dissemination of methodologies and tools for impact and vulnerability assessments, such as rapid assessments and bottom-up approaches, including as they apply to sustainable development;
Improve knowledge of the socio-economic aspects of climate change and promote the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments;
Activities in the area of methods and tools were undertaken with a view to developing and disseminating methodologies and tools for impact and vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning, measures and actions. Activities included submissions by Parties and relevant organizations.
Promoting the availability of information on the socio-economic aspectsof climate change and improving the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments;
While some countries reported that they undertook impact and vulnerability assessments exclusively during the initial national communications, others reported that specific follow-up studies were undertaken by universities and independent researchers, which reflects an increasing awareness of climate change.
Such scenarios are important for increasing the applicability of climate information to impact and vulnerability assessments in key sectors.
Country presentations and ensuing discussions on impact and vulnerability assessments in Africa illustrated the range of possible assessments, including top-down assessments through scenariosand models and bottom-up assessments through livelihood analyses.
Transboundary cooperation in climate change adaptation is particularly needed for coordinating impact and vulnerability assessments and adaptation strategies at the basin level.
This, coupled with issues related to model uncertainties(see chapter III B below), has placed constraints on the development of regional and subregional climate scenarios to support policy-relevant impact and vulnerability assessments.
Participants from a number of countries reported the successful use of the national adaptation programme of action(NAPA)methodology in conducting impact and vulnerability assessments; they said that it provides a robust country-tailored process, especially as it does not require additional data and information which is difficult to obtain in the least developed countries LDCs.
Ways and means to improve availability and access to relevant information, including information on costs and benefits,as well as its better integration into impact and vulnerability assessments.
To exchange information and views on ways and means to improve the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments, including as they relate to adaptation planning.
Activities in this area are undertaken in line with the objective in the annex to decision 2/CP.11 to advance subtheme a(v),"Promoting the availability of information on the socio-economic aspectsof climate change and improving the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.
Request the secretariat to organize an expertmeeting on means and ways to improve the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning, taking the above synthesis report into account.
Activities in the area of socio-economic information were undertaken with a view to improving knowledge of the socio-economic aspects of climate change and promoting the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.
The SBSTA invited Parties and relevant organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 21 September 2007, information and views on matters relating to the availability of information on the socio-economic aspects of climate change and improving the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments, including information on the development of socio-economic scenariosand for understanding adaptive capacity, including.
Governments are typically responsible for collecting national demographic data and are also a major information generator, but the private sector(e.g. water companies,insurance sector) may also have specific socio-economic data relevant to impact and vulnerability assessments.
A number of outcomes emerged from the discussions at the workshop, including from the break-out groups, relating to the needs and gaps on systematic observation, impact and vulnerability assessments, and on adaptation planning and implementation.
The SBSTA affirmed that activities in the area of socio-economic information are undertaken with a view to advancing sub-theme a(v),"Promoting the availability of information on the socio-economic aspectsof climate change and improving the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.
The SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize an expert meeting before SBSTA 27, possibly in conjunction with the expert meeting referred to in para 14 above, on means and ways to improve the integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning, taking the above miscellaneous document into account.
The breakout groups covered two broad areas: ways and means to improve availability, accessibility and effectiveness of information on socio-economic aspects of climate change from the perspectives of information providers and users; and integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.
Invite structured submissions from Parties, the IPCC and relevant organizations on matters relating to the integration of socio-economic aspects of climate change into impact and vulnerability assessments with a view to identifying.
Activities in this area can contribute to efforts by Parties and organizations, inter alia, to undertake stocktaking on what socio-economic information and approaches are available and in use, and what needs to be done to ensure better integration of socio-economic information into impact and vulnerability assessments.