TroFCCA - Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation

The importance of forest ecosystems as providers of goods and services for society has been widely discussed. As forest loss can lead to profoundly negative costs to society in terms of foregone goods and services, there is an urgent need to protect forests, either through conservation or sustainable management. Climate change (including climate variability) coupled with degrading processes such as high deforestation rates will almost certainly affect the provision of goods and services from forests and, hence, hinder sustainable development.

 

Tropical forest ecosystems are among the most vulnerable to climate change variability and long term changes in temperature and rainfall. Unfortunately, these same vulnerable ecosystems are of great importance to millions of people whose livelihoods depend on the forests. TroFCCA is an effort to expand our current limited understanding of climate change impacts on forests and to develop robust methods to assess vulnerability and plan for adaptation within these systems.

 

TroFCCA aims to address mainstreaming adaptation into development policy by undertaking relevant research on how impacts of climate change over forests are likely to undermine specific development policies.

More: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/trofcca/_ref/home/index.htm

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