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To be effective, climate change adaptation needs to be mainstreamed across multiple sectors and greater policy coherence is essential. 3 Acknowledgements This working paper draws on research conducted as part of the Meeting Information and Advocacy Needs for Climate Change Adaptation in Zimbabwe project funded by the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DfID). Climate change is affecting the most vulnerable in Zimbabwe. Learn More. Kyoto Protocol: The Kyoto Protocol is an international legally binding agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which gives legally binding emission reduction One of the sectors that benefit the poor is tourism, and the sector gets impacted by global warming that causes climate variability and change. 0000032240 00000 n Today we can! This study assesses the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources and the impacts of projected climate change on water resource availability in Zambia. The government re ects this in the Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) and other policy pronouncements: National Disaster Management Policy and National Climate Change Policy. The urgency for adaptation is highlighted by projections from the three reports produced by the IPCC in 2007 (IPCC 2007). Zambia must reduce the deforestation rate to ensure a green economy and sustianbale development. Zambia has been experiencing adverse impacts of climate change - including an increase in frequency and severity of seasonal droughts, occasional dry spells, increased temperatures in valleys, flash floods and changes in the growing season. the Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model to evaluate future climate change impacts and adaptations in Eastern US corn-soybean rotation systems. Global warming is a phenomenon of climate change characterized by a general increase in average temperatures of the Earth, which modifies the weather balances and ecosystems for a long time. 0000054978 00000 n Africa will be hardest hit by climate change, but has contributed the least to causing that change. In the village of Lusitu, in the south of Zambia, the returns from farming have diminished due to severe droughts. Things that we depend upon and value — water, energy, transportation, wildlife, agriculture, ecosystems, and human health — are experiencing the effects of a changing climate. Climate experts are formal: the Earth is warming up at a steady pace. on Climate Change: It is an international body that assesses climate change and provides best available science on climate change. 3.3.6 Theeffectsoffertilisersubsidies–fromFSPtoFISP 68 3.4 Marketsandmarketingstructures 71 3.4.1 Localanddomesticmarkets 71 3.4.2 Regionalandoverseasexportmarkets 76 0000073457 00000 n Metrics details. The National policy on climate change should be put in place … 0000068582 00000 n As an African country, Zambia has not been spared from the adverse effects of climate change and remains highly vulnerable. %PDF-1.7 %���� to climate change impacts largely due to their reliance on climate-sensitive livelihood sectors, including agriculture. government funded research has declined, including on climate change. AN EMPIRICAL ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN ZAMBIA1 Suman Jain2 1 An earlier version of this Working Paper was published as CEEPA Discussion Paper number 27. It also includes the economic and social changes which stem from living in a warmer world. Hydropower is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change – and the impact of the changes in rainfall and water availability, protracted drought events, significant variation in temperature regimes, and more frequent and severe weather events that are already being seen in sub-Saharan Africa. Contribute; 03. Find out its causes and effects, but most importantly the solutions to prevent climate change. For two weeks in May, we traveled across three-quarters of Zimbabwe, researching how climate change is affecting the country. In 2009 Zambia’s Ministry of Finance and Development Planning requested that Zambia become a pilot country under PPCR, which was approved, leading to the availability of funding and other support from PPCR. 0000067919 00000 n Across the globe climate change has caused serious damage to the environment and to human life in general. Agricultural productivity in the pilot sites made resilient to the anticipated impacts of climate change 3. �����j4%7%���Nv��Im����#�����2WB���Q���N 3�*QT:#����L��/LF�P�l(8����6�Nj�8 ^9����F��]��G�l"���v�I��u6q(xn��8Q���& �ĵ�vȚ��4.z�d��I��vY����5:�/pB�/㕰����*���#'�D���G�-[�:����1B��I�vO�a26��{L�e����bߝ�0S$7���`�p�|����E�� ������yQP��y Prevention; Ecosystems . Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa, Policy Note no. 0000079704 00000 n climate change issues in Zambia, including climate finance, has broad and high-level support and an interim Climate Change secretariat has already been established to guide its evolution • Studies on the economy-wide impacts of climate change are largely donor supported. Zambia has tremendous natural resource wealth but faces increasing threats to its environment, including deforestation and wildlife trafficking, and the effects of climate shocks. Climate change is widely regarded as a multiplier of existing threats to food security in southern Africa (Kotir, 2011). The study employs statistical downscaling of future climate scenarios and a water balance model in a hydrological modeling framework to assess the impacts of climate change on water availability. 桫�a�����H�T�8&�llll^Ӥu #�� 7���h�1�w��Z@ 6]����a5��X�.��dŔPux���E��E!|���,cap�f��u��u��s8�'. 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The organization has also been helping to build capacities and institutions required to effectively combat climate change at the national level. 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Zambia. Zambia is one of many countries threatened by the effects of climate change. In 2009 Zambia’s Ministry of … 27, August 2006 Rainfall Temperature 1.9mm per month decreased (2.3% per d) 1.3 since 1960 )��c`��+& Ȥ The full relationship between fisheries and climate change is difficult to explore due to the context of each fishery and the many pathways that climate change affects. These factors include inadequate health care facilities and personnel, extensive poverty, poor water supply and sanitation, and poor nutrition coupled with food insecurity. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, vULNERABILITy AND ADAPTATION IN ZIMBABWE I CLIMATE CHANGE I ii Executive summary THIS PAPER REVIEWS IMPACTS, VULNERABILITy AND adaptation to climate change in Zimbabwe, with the intention of providing a broad overview of the key issues related to climate change facing this particular country. 2. During the course of global warming, the energy balance and thus the temperature of the earth change, due to the increased concentration of greenhouse gases, which has a significant impact on humans and the environment. On the 3rd of March 2017, Zambia launched its long-awaited National Climate Change Policy aimed at stemming the impact of climate change and subsequent reduction of the country’s annual economic growth due to crop failure and the impact of climate change on energy production. With a majority of Zambians depending on agriculture, even a slight change in temperature can affect crops like maize with catastrophic consequences for livelihoods. 385 0 obj <> endobj xref 385 45 0000000016 00000 n Solutions; 02. Climate change will have a drastic impact on our forests, oceans, freshwaters, polar regions, and all of its inhabitants. Download PDF. h�bbd``b`f���9�`��"� ����q;@�� �s���L��- �!�3��` � 19 Citations. Impacts from climate change are happening now. The Economics of Climate Change in Zambia. UNDP’s climate change activities in Zambia UNDP has been supporting the government of Zambia in preparing the response to the challenges that the country is facing as a result of effects of climate change. OF IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN ZAMBIA1 Suman Jain2 1 An earlier version of this Working Paper was published as CEEPA Discussion Paper number 27. LAKE KARIBA, Zambia — Even as drought and the effects of climate change grew visible across this land, the Kariba Dam was always a steady, and seemingly limitless, source of … Zambia recognises the negative impact of climate change on the development goals of the country and the need to respond to this threat. 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