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Climate Impacts and Services Sixteenth Session of the Forum on Regional Climate Monitoring Assessment and Prediction for Asia (FOCRAII) Arghya Sinha Roy Image Source: Jessie Ponce Im Importance of Understanding Climate Impacts and Services


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Climate Impacts and Services

Sixteenth Session of the Forum on Regional Climate Monitoring Assessment and Prediction for Asia (FOCRAII) Arghya Sinha Roy

Image Source: Jessie Ponce

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Im Importance of Understanding Climate Impacts and Services

  • Is the foundation for risk-informed development
  • Is an investment that produces high return
  • Is a critical regional public good
  • Is a priority under ADB Strategy 2030

Image Source: Global Commission on Adaptation

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Four Str Strategie ies to Increase Uptake of Climate Impact Information and Services

1.Information 2.Application

  • 3. Capacity
  • 4. Financing
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  • 1. Generating In

Information on Climate Impacts

  • Supporting generation of ‘usable’ information on climate impacts

ADB Climate Risk Screening Tools Myanmar Web-based Tool on Disaster Risk Regional Web based Tool on Climate Risk Information

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  • 2. Appli

lication of Climate Impacts and Services

  • Application across range of sectors
  • Application depends on temporal nature of information and policy context
  • Inform long-term sector growth strategies
  • Identification of priority/critical infrastructure
  • Improve preparedness to extreme weather events

Example: Water Resources Analysis of impact of Climate Change on Critical Infrastructure Systems in Cimanuk-Cisanggarung basin, Indonesia

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  • 3. Strengthening In

Instit itutional l Cap apacity for Climate Services

  • Building capacity for climate outlook based response
  • Enhance products and services to increase application
  • Incremental learning by doing requires longer-term engagement

Example: Disaster Risk Management Hands on Training for Staff from Department of Disaster Management on Medium-range Weather Forecast, Myanmar

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  • 4. Fin

Financin ing for Climate Impact Information and Services

  • Mainstream into budget for planning and asset management
  • Link with infrastructure asset management systems
  • Create demand to improve performance of pro-poor development programs
  • Social Protection Programs
  • Rural Livelihoods Programs
  • Microfinance Programs
  • Linkage with disaster risk financing products
  • Agriculture/Disaster Insurance Products

Example: Agriculture Pilot on Weather Index-based Crop Insurance, Bangladesh