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1. Create the table below on the flipchart listing: a) the projected changes in the future
climatic variables, b) impacts on ecosystems, and c) human well-being.

2. On sticky notes write down key drivers and pressures that also contribute to the
identified impacts of climate change on environment and human well-being. Stick these
pressures and drivers next to the impacts written on the flipchart. Abu Dhabi, UAE

3. Are the pressures and drivers different than those identified in Exercise 2? Are some

pressures and drivers exacerbated by climate change?

a. Projected changes in climatic variables - future states and trends

b. Impacts on ecosystems c. Impacts on human well-being

Further reading exercise

In the same groups as Exercise 4, read the following case study: A vulnerability study of
coastal areas and climate change in Senegal (C3D, Module 3) from http://c3d-unitar.org/c3d/
userfiles/ Module_3/EM3_Case_study2.pdf. Please review the applied approaches that were
used to identify impacts ofclimate change in the case study.

7
Creating Responses: Determining the adaptation options

7.1 Mainstreaming climate change into development decisions

Impacts of climate change and needed adaptation measures cut across sectors; the challenges that
nations face involve a complex matrix of economic, social, cultural, political, environmental and other
multisectoral issues. Impacts of climate change and adaptation therefore need to be integrated within
the broader milieu of national development planning, tools and processes, inclusive of PRSPs, in a

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