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Description: ''The Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) was launched in 2013 with the joint efforts of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MNREC) and its Environmental Conservation Department (ECD). The programme also works closely with several other ministries and government agencies, including the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MSWRR) and its Relief and Resettlement Department (RRD). The overall objective of MCCA is to mainstream climate change into the policy development and reform agenda of Myanmar. The country is highly vulnerable to climate change and hazards. At a local level, climate change is already resulting in more frequent and severe disasters such as devastating cyclones, frequently recurring floods and storm surges, droughts and consequent climate driven migration, and loss of productivity in the agriculture sector, among others. In the context of increasing climate-induced risks, local administrations need to enhance their capacities for climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). In response, MCCA and ECD designed a training course entitled “Building Local Level Resilience to Climate Change in Myanmar”. The overall aim of the training course is to build the capacity of national and local governments for integrating CCA and DRR measures into local development plans. The course modules are tailored to equip government officials with robust knowledge on climate change and its impacts in Myanmar, as well as with analytical and technical skills on how to develop local CCA and DRR strategies and plans based upon vulnerability assessments...''
Source/publisher: HABITAT (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements)
2019-03-26
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Description: "In 2016 the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA), implemented by UN-Habitat and UN-Environment, on behalf of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, conducted a detailed climate change vulnerability assessment of Labutta Township, in collaboration with WWF and Columbia University...."
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2018-00-00
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Description: "Vulnerability is the degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, the adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. This notion is used to describe socio-economic, physical and environmental factors, which determine the sensitivity/susceptibility of a country, town, community or individual to the impact of climate change (e.g. change in seasonal patterns) and/or hazard (e.g. flood). For example, socio-economic factors of vulnerability are poverty, low level of awareness on climate change, and dependence on climate-sensitive agricultural production. Land degradation and unsustainable natural resources management are environmental factors of vulnerability. For instance, cutting mangroves in populated coastal areas increases the vulnerability of communities because mangroves help in reducing wind speed, flooding and coastal erosion. Physical vulnerability relates to the state of infrastructure and human settlements. Countries and communities are more vulnerable when they have low adaptive capacity. The latter specifies their ability to adjust to climate change (including to climate variability and extremes) and moderate or cope with its potential negative impacts. Adaptive capacity also relates to the ability of people to take advantage of opportunities and benefits from climate change. For example, a longer growing season due to changing climate offers opportunity to farmers to increase their income. However, their adaptive capacity is often constrained by the limited access to knowledge and technology on how to increase their production under longer growing season conditions. Adaptation to climate change aims at reducing vulnerability and building climate resilience. Climate resilience is the ability of a system to (i) absorb stress and cope with climate change and hazards, including maintaining its basic structure, functions and adaptive capacity, and (ii) recover, adapt and transform in ways that improve its sustainability, leaving it better prepared for future climate change impacts. In this context, climate-resilient development of townships of Myanmar suggests development that ensures townships' ability to cope with current climate and its impact and to adapt to future climate change, by preserving development gains and minimising damages..."
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2019-03-26
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Description: "Myanmar is one of the most vulnerable countries to the negative effects of climate change, and the majority of Myanmar people are also highly vulnerable to climate variability and natural disasters. Myanmar’s delta region is exposed to sea level rise and cyclones, and the central dry zone is vulnerable to drought and floods, and 60% of the population works in agriculture, livestock and fisheries, which are highly sensitive to climatic variations. Already, changes in the timing of monsoon rainfall are hurting farmers’ income and food security, along with floods, droughts, heat and extreme weather events. A contributing factor to the impact of climate change in Myanmar is the limited understanding and awareness, of both policymakers and the public, of the risks and potential negative impacts of climate change on economic, social and environmental development. The MCCA strategy on awareness-raising concluded that in 2015, a basic awareness of climate change existed but was still superficial, even for key influential groups such as policymakers and the media. Myanmar has begun to improve education about environmental issues and climate change, including incorporation of climate change information into the public education curriculum (for primary schools and universities), but general awareness is limited. MCCA surveys showed that people were familiar with basic climate change terms, but did not understand the concepts. Improving awareness and knowledge about climate change will help vulnerable communities and sectors to respond effectively to current and future climate change impacts..."
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Description: "In 2016 the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance, comprised of UNHabitat, UN-Environment and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, in collaboration with WWF and Columbia University conducted a detailed climate change vulnerability assessment of Pakokku Township..."
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2018-00-00
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Description: "Based on analysis of data from 1996-2015, Myanmar was ranked second in long-term climate risk index (Kreft, et al., 2016), indicating higher impacts of climate events within the 10-year period. This, even with Myanmar recording the least number of climate events among the countries included in the list (i.e. Myanmar recorded 41 climate events; the nine (9) other countries had climate events ranging from 44 to 283). The current socio-economic conditions in Myanmar make it more susceptible to impacts of hazard events – cutting across lives, livelihoods and assets. Hazard impacts are disproportionately higher on the poor and vulnerable. With high degree of poverty in Myanmar’s rural areas, even low-intensity hazards have big impacts on households. In rural communities, the poor often live in remote areas in low-quality housing, and lack access to basic services and local infrastructure, all of which affect their ability to deal with hazard events (Government of the Union of Myanmar, 2015). Historical hazard events, and their impacts, offer views on the susceptibility of the vulnerable. Analysis suggests that climate-related events are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, and their impacts aggravated by environmental degradation (ibid), which are expected to redound to increased economic and social losses. Climate information of various timescales (historical data, 1-3 days forecast, 5-10 days forecast, monthly and seasonal outlook, and long-term climate change projections) could, when applied seamlessly and meaningfully, reduce the impacts of hazards and promote productivity. Effective disaster risk management/reduction and improved resilience requires ingestion of climate information of different timescales in plans and decisions. Understanding of capacities and gaps in climate information generation and application could guide interventions for enhancing availability, understanding, translation into sector-relevant information, and application of most viable response options, for improved disaster risk reduction and resilience..."
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2019-03-27
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Description: "Myanmar aims to achieve a healthy and happy society that is able to resist changes in climate regimes and whose economic development will be implemented through integrated low carbon approaches by 2030. The Myanmar Climate Change Master Plan (2018-2030) has been formulated and adopted with the view toward mainstreaming a series of prioritized sectoral short, medium and long term actions identified in the Myanmar Climate Change Policy and Strategy. The Myanmar Climate Change Master Plan (2018-2030) showcases the result of extensive in-depth sectoral consultations and bilateral discussions by line ministerial departments and enterprises, city development committees, research and academia, private and non-governmental organizations, civil-society organizations, development partners from national and international agencies, experts, technical working groups of Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) as well as comments from relevant subnational stakeholders. The Myanmar Climate Change Master Plan (2018-2030) clearly defines a series of high-priority activities, their respective strategic indicators, and the responsibilities of involved stakeholders across six specific sectors prioritized in Myanmar Climate Change Strategy defined as: “climate-smart agriculture, fisheries and livestock for food security, sustainable management of natural resources for healthy ecosystems, resilient and low-carbon energy, transport and industrial systems for sustainable growth, building resilient, inclusive and sustainable cities and towns in Myanmar, managing climate risks for people’s health and well-being, and building a resilient Myanmar society through education, science and technology”. The Environmental Conservation Department (ECD) has great confidence that this master plan will provide a guiding roadmap for proactive sectoral preparedness in tailoring and scaling down the responses needed to address annual climate-induced natural disasters facing with Myanmar as well as stimulating opportunities for long term economic development along low carbon pathways. In addition, this Master Plan serves as an operationalizing framework for ensuring Myanmar’s achievement of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the 2015 Global Climate Change Paris Agreement.....၂၀၃၀ ခုနှစ်တွေင် ရာသီဥတုကဖပာင်းလဲမှုေဏ်ကို ခံနိုင်ရည်ရှိမပီး ကာဗွေန် ုတ်လွှတ်မ ှု ကလျော့နည်းကသာ ကျေန်းမာကပျော်ရွှင်သည့် ဖမန်မာ့လူမှုအြွေဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ်ကို အားလုံးပူးကပါင်းပါဝင် ကဆာင်ရွက်သည့်နည်းလမ်းဖြင့် ကြာ်ကဆာင်နိုင်ကရးအတွေက် ဖမန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရာသီဥတုကဖပာင်းလဲမှု ဆိုင်ရာ မူဝါေ နှင့် မဟာဗျေူဟာ ပါ လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်မျေားကို နှစ်တို၊ နှစ်လတ်၊ နှစ်ရှည် ဦးစားကပး စီမံချေက်မျေားဖြင့် ကဏ္ဍအသီးသီးတွေင် ကပါင်းစပ်အကကာင်အ ည်ကြာ် ကဆာင်ရွက်ရန် ဖမန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရာသီဥတုကဖပာင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပင်မလုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ် (၂၀၁၈-၂၀၃၀) ကို ကရးဆွေဲချေမှတ်ဖခင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဖမန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရာသီဥတုကဖပာင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပင်မလုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ် (၂၀၁၈-၂၀၃၀) သည် ဆက်စပ်ဝန်ကကီးဌာနမျေားမှ ဦးစီးဌာနမျေား နှင့် လုပ်ငန်းဌာနမျေား၊ မမို့ကတာ်စည်ပင်သာယာကရး ကကာ်မတ ီမျေား၊ သုကတသန နှင့် ပညာကရး အြွေဲ့အစည်းမျေား၊ ပုဂ္ဂလိကကဏ္ဍ၊ အစိုးရမဟုတ်ကသာ အြွေဲ့အစည်းမျေားကဏ္ဍနှင့် အရပ်ြက် လူမှုအြွေဲ့အစည်းမျေား၊ ဖပည်တ ွေင်းဖပည်ပ မိတ်ြက် အြွေဲ့အစည်းမျေားမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်မျေား၊ ဖမန်မာရာသီဥတု ကဖပာင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပူးကပါင်းကဆာင်ရွက်မှု အစီအစဉ် (Myanmar Climate Change Alliance - MCCA) ၏ နည်းပညာလုပ်ငန်းအြွေဲ့ဝင်မျေားဖြင့် ဦးစားကပးကဏ္ဍအလိုက် အကသးစိတ်ကတွေ့ဆုံကဆွေးကနွေးဖခင်း၊ နှစ်ဦးနှစ်ြက် ကတွေ့ဆုံကဆွေးကနွေးဖခင်း၊ တိုင်းကေသကကီး/ဖပည်နယ်မျေား အပါအဝင် ဆက်စပ်ပါဝင်သူမျေားအားလုံး၏ သကဘာ ားအကကံဖပု ချေက်မျေားရယူဖခင်း စသည့် အားလုံးပူးကပါင်းပါဝင် ကကိုးစားမှု၏ ရလေ်တစ်ခုဖြစ်ပါသည်။..."
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2019-05-27
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Description: "Myanmar has achieved significant growth in recent years, and projections indicate that growth will accelerate due to lower levels of political uncertainty and strong investment (WEF 2016). However, the impacts of climate change have already undermined development outcomes and will continue to do so for future development outcomes if these impacts are not managed or addressed. The observed and projected changes in climate include a general increase in temperature, variation in rainfall and an increased occurrence and severity of extreme weather events such as cyclones, floods, droughts, intense rains and extreme high temperatures. The country is also experiencing a decrease in the duration of the southwest monsoon season due to its late onset and early retreat (NAPA 2013). Current patterns of socioeconomic development rely on climate-sensitive sectors and regions. For example, agriculture is the largest economic sector, contributing to 30 percent of GDP and employing to 61 percent of the labour force (MOAI 2014). An increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events has caused a decline in agricultural productivity, which has resulted in a decrease in GDP and household income and rising food insecurity (MOAI 2015). Myanmar's population and economic activities are concentrated in disaster risk-prone areas such as the Delta, Coastal and Central Dry Zones, which are highly exposed to hazards and have both high poverty levels and low response capacity. Coastal regions are particularly at risk from sea level rise and cyclones, while the lowlands and Central Dry Zone are vulnerable to the impacts of floods and droughts, respectively. Communities and businesses located in at-risk regions and reliant on climate-sensitive economic activities are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (NAPA 2013; IPCC 2014). Due to its exposure and sensitivity to current and projected weather patterns, Myanmar is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In the past 20 years (1995–2014), it has been exposed to 41 extreme weather events resulting in a death toll of 7, 146 (annual average) inhabitants and an annual average of 0.74 percent loss per.....ြပည်ေထာင်စုသမ္မတ ြမန်မာနိုင်ငဳေတာ်အစိုဵရ၊ သယဳဇာတနှင်ဴ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်ဵ ျင် ထိန်ဵသိမ်ဵေရဵဝန်က ီဵဌာန (MONREC)သည် ဤမဟာဗျူဟာ ေရဵဆွဲြပုစုရာတွင် ပူဵေပါင်ဵပါဝင်ေသာ ြမန်မာဴရာသီဥတုေြပာင်ဵလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပူဵေပါင်ဵေဆာင်ရွ ်မှုအစီအစဉ်(MCCA) ၏ စီမဳ ိန်ဵဆိုင်ရာ ဦဵေဆာင်ေ ာ်မတီအဖွဲ့ဝင်မျာဵအာဵလုဳဵ၏ လမ်ဵညွှန်မှုမျာဵနှင်ဴ နည်ဵပညာလုပ်ငန်ဵ အဖွဲ့ဝင်မျာဵ အာဵလုဳဵ၏ ဝိုင်ဵဝန်ဵ ူညီပဳဴပိုဵမှုမျာဵ ို အေလဵထာဵအသိအမှတ်ြပုပါသည်။ နည်ဵပညာလုပ်ငန်ဵ အဖွဲ့တွင် အဓိ ျေသာ ဝန်က ီဵဌာနမျာဵ၊ ဦဵစီဵဌာနမျာဵ၊ ေနြပည်ေတာ်၊ ရန် ုန်နှင်ဴ မန္တေလဵမမို့မျာဵ ၏ မမို့ေတာ်စည်ပင်သာယာေရဵေ ာ်မတီဝင်မျာဵ၊ ပညာေရဵအဖွဲ့အစည်ဵမျာဵ၊ ြပည်ေထာင်စုသမ္မတ ြမန်မာနိုင်ငဳ ုန်သည်မျာဵနှင်ဴစ ်မှုလ ်မှုလုပ်ငန်ဵရှင်မျာဵအသင်ဵချုပ်(UMFCCI)၊ ြမန်မာဴပတ်ဝန်ဵ ျင် ထူေထာင်ထိန်ဵသိမ်ဵေရဵ ွန်ရ ် (MERN) အပါအဝင် လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်ဵမျာဵ၊ ပတ်ဝန်ဵ ျင်ထိန်ဵသိမ်ဵ ေရဵ နှငဴ် ရာသီဥတုေြပာင်ဵလဲမှု လုပ်ငန်ဵနယ်ပယ်မျာဵတွင် ေဆာင်ရွ ်ေနသညဴ် လူမှု အဖွဲ့အစည်ဵမျာဵ၊ ြမန်မာနိုင်ငဳအင်ဂျင်နီယာအသင်ဵနှငဴ် ဖွဳ့မဖိုဵမှု မိတ်ဖ ်အဖွဲ့အစည်ဵမျာဵြဖစ်ေသာ ုလသမဂ္ဂဖွဳ့မဖိုဵမှု အစီအစဉ် (UNDP)၊ သဘာဝေဘဵအန္တရာယ် ေလျှောဴချေရဵလုပ်ငန်ဵအဖွဲ့၊ ပတ်ဝန်ဵ ျင် ဏ္ဍလုပ်ငန်ဵ အဖွဲ့၊ သစ်ေတာြပုန်ဵတီဵြခင်ဵနှင်ဴ သစ်ေတာအတန်ဵအစာဵ ျဆင်ဵြခင်ဵမှ ာဗွန်ထုတ်လွှတ်မှု ေလျှောဴချြခင်ဵအစီအစဉ် (UN-REDD+)၊ Plan International၊ မ္ဘာလုဳဵဆိုင်ရာ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်ဵ ျင် ရန်ပုဳေငွအဖွဲ့ (WWF-ြမန်မာ)တို့ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါအဖွဲ့အစည်ဵမျာဵမှ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်မျာဵသည် လ ်ေတွ့ ေဆာင်ရွ ်နိုင်မညဴ် ဤမဟာဗျူဟာ ို ေရဵဆွဲနိုင်ရန် ၎င်ဵတို့၏ တန်ဖိုဵရှိလှေသာ ယူဆချ ်မျာဵ၊ အက ဳဉာဏ်မျာဵနှင်ဴ ဗျူဟာေြမာ ်အြမင်မျာဵ ို ဝိုင်ဵဝန်ဵပဳဴပိုဵေပဵခဲဴက ပါသည်။..."
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2019-05-27
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Description: ''The Myanmar Climate Change Strategy & Action Plan (MCCSAP) 2017-2030 presents a roadmap to guide Myanmar’s strategic responses to address climate related risks and opportunities over the next 15 years and beyond. The Strategy and Action Plan aims to support key actors in their decision making at the national and local level to respond to the challenges and opportunities associated with climate change. The Strategy outlines a vision, goal and objectives to guide a transition to a climate resilient and low carbon development pathway that will deliver inclusive economic and social development. It identifies priority actions in key development sectors to build the adaptive capacity of communities and sectors and to promote low carbon development. The Strategy also outlines an implementation framework to coordinate and implement climate resilient and low carbon development initiatives...''
Source/publisher: Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA)
2018-03-31
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-01
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