Climate Change: ADB Programs: Strengthening Mitigation and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific
Asian Development Bank | June 2007
Abstract
Asia and the Pacific’s vulnerability to climate change is dictated by its unique physical and socioeconomic attributes, including high population density, relatively low income levels, long coastlines, and the prominence of agriculture and fishing in providing livelihoods for the rural poor. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has climate change programs which can be used to prepare for the future impacts of climate change. Adaptation measures may require investments in inshore coral rehabilitation, watershed reforestation, river levees, wetlands nourishment, and the introduction of hardier and more resistant crops. ADB is working with partners to make mitigation and adaptation actions affordable and more competitive.
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Asian Development Bank. 2007. Climate Change: ADB Programs: Strengthening Mitigation and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5159. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Climate
Climate change
Climate impacts assessment
Global climate change
Rural Development
Rural Development Projects
Rural Development Research
Climatic change
Climatic influence
Climatology
Rural economy
Development potential
Rural poverty
Climatic factor
Dynamic climatology
Climate change mitigation
Communication in rural development
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