The Climate Change Program (CCP) is designed to assess the current dimensions of the marine climate change in the ROPME Sea Area and to support more healthy ecosystems and productive blue carbon habitats in this Area to balance increasing temperatures, regulate the climate, and adapt to negative impacts of climate change. This program is also anticipated to set a variety of approaches for adapting to climate change to facilitate the integration of science into adaptation policy setting and planning, and support Member States to build ecosystem resilience and enhance ecosystem services for adaptation.
The main priorities of the program
- Assessment Dimensions of Marine Climate Change
- Risk Assessment of Marine Climate Change Impacts
- Adaptation & Mitigation Measures to Marine Climate Effects
Key Activities
- Assessing the coastal and marine environmental risks associated with climate change impacts on ecological, biological, and socio-economic aspects of the ROPME Sea area through marine spatial planning, field surveys, and remote sensing applications on supporting biodiversity conservation and ecosystem health (blue carbon ecosystems).
- Developing Adaptation and Mitigation Measures such as carbon sequestration, acidity buffering, increased use of renewable energy, decarbonization of marine-based transport, coastal protection, food security, and sustainable and improved fishery management.. etc.
- Developing future scenarios of potential climate-related impacts in RSA based on the adopted mitigation and adaptation measures.
Key Strategic Impacts
- Increased knowledge of the potential risks and future impacts of climate change in RSA.
- Increased productive blue carbon habitats.
- Reduced RSA acidification.
- Suppressed temperature and sea-level rise