06/12/2012 1 CYPADAPT Development of a national strategy for
adaptation to climate change adverse impacts in Cyprus Professor
Maria Loizidou National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
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06/12/2012 2 Area of implementation: Cyprus Project Budget:
1,358,847.00 EC Funding: 678.423 (49,9% of Total Budget) Duration:
31 months Start date: 01/09/2011 End date:31/03/2014 CYPADAPT: In
Brief
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06/12/2012 3 CYPADAPT: Partners Department of Environment,
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of
Cyprus (Project Coordinator) National Technical University of
Athens (NTUA) National Observatory of Athens (NOA)
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06/12/2012 4 to strengthen and increase Cyprus adaptive
capacity to climate change impacts through the development of a
National Adaptation Strategy (NAS) CYPADAPT: Main aim
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06/12/2012 5 CYPADAPT: Actions ACTION 1: Preparatory actions
(completed) ACTION 2: Review of existing national adaptation plans
worldwide and assessment of relative measures implemented in Cyprus
(completed) ACTION 3: Prediction of future changes and responses
due to climate change in Cyprus (in progress) ACTION 4: Development
of a multi-criteria analysis tool for the elaboration of the
adaptation plan for Cyprus (not started yet) ACTION 5: Elaboration
of a National Adaptation Plan for Cyprus (not started yet)
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06/12/2012 6 CYPADAPT: Actions (2) ACTION 6: Dissemination
Activities (in progress) ACTION 7: Management and Reporting to the
EC (in progress) ACTION 8: Networking with other projects (in
progress) ACTION 9: Monitoring and Evaluation of the project
progress (in progress) ACTION 10: After-LIFE Communication plan
(not started yet)
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06/12/2012 7 CYPADAPT: Timetable
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06/12/2012 8 Assessing current climate changes and risks
Assessing current socio-economic conditions Current impact and
vulnerability assessment Projecting future climate changes and
risks Projecting future socio-economic conditions Future impact and
vulnerability assessment Formulation of an adaptation strategy
Implementation Monitoring Assessing adaptive capacity CYPADAPT:
Methodology
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06/12/2012 9 Assessing current climate changes and risks
Assessing current socio-economic conditions Current impact and
vulnerability assessment Projecting future climate changes and
risks Projecting future socio-economic conditions Future impact and
vulnerability assessment Formulation of an adaptation strategy
Implementation Monitoring Assessing adaptive capacity CompletedIn
Progress CYPADAPT: Methodology (2)
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06/12/2012 10 Assessing current climate changes and risks
Assessing current socio-economic conditions Current impact and
vulnerability assessment Projecting future climate changes and
risks Projecting future socio-economic conditions Future impact and
vulnerability assessment Formulation of an adaptation strategy
Implementation Monitoring Assessing adaptive capacity CYPADAPT:
Methodology (3) CompletedIn Progress Engaging stakeholders
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06/12/2012 Climate change adaptation policy areas
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06/12/2012 12 Available at: http://uest.ntua.gr/cypadapt 14
deliverables so far
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06/12/2012 13 Review on existing NAS Focus on Mediterranean
countries
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06/12/2012 14 Finland France Spain Malta Tunisia Focus on
Mediterranean countries
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06/12/2012 15 Why Finland ? Finland was the first country to
adopt a national adaptation strategy (2005). The CYPADAPT team
visited Finland (February 2012) and came in contact with the team
that worked on the Finnish NAS and has shared valuable information
and experience (success stories, lessons learned)
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06/12/2012 16 Monitoring evaluation methodology
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06/12/2012 17 Levels of adaptation to climate change:
case-study Finland
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06/12/2012 18 Levels of adaption by sector
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06/12/2012 19 Next steps After the vulnerability of Cyprus to
climate change has been analyzed and the alternative adaptation
options applied worldwide have been recorded, the adaptation
options shall be prioritized A multi-criteria analysis (MCA) tool
will be developed for the prioritization of the adaptation
measures. The structure of the MCA tool will be based on
objectives, alternative measures/options/interventions, criteria
(or attributes), scores that measure or value the performance of
each adaptation option against the criteria, and weights (applied
to criteria).
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06/12/2012 20 Next steps (2) A draft adaptation plan will be
published in an interactive blog in order for the plan to be able
to be reviewed by the public for a period of two (2) months. All
recommendations will receive full consideration and the final
revised plan, will then be submitted for endorsement to the
Parliament and then published to the public. A set of indicators
will be established for monitoring and evaluating the
implementation of the Cypriot National Adaptation Strategy that
will be developed in the context of CYPADAPT project
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06/12/2012 21 Conference invitation Please be informed that in
the context of the CYPADAPT project an International Conference
will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus in March 2014. Stay tuned in
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