ALM UNDP

Key Vulnerabilities

• Agriculture/Food Security
• Forestry Sector
• Waste Sector
• Coastal Zones and Coastal Resource Adaptation
• Public Health

Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture:

• Improving technology and information transfer to farmer in order to speed adaptation and innovation and adoption.
• Strengthening research, development, and dissemination of sustainable agriculture practices.
• Supporting research and technology that will ensure that the agricultural sector can deal successfully with the various challenges of the future.
• Promote improved agricultural practices that emit the least amount of greenhouse gases.
• Staple food diversification by promotion of non rice food sources.
• Improve water management in rice production.
• Regionalization of agricultural research and development. Forestry:
• Improving forest policy and enforcement of stronger regulations in forest management.
• Improving technology and information transfer in order to speed adaptation and innovation and adoption.
• Strengthening research and development of sustainable forest management.
• Review and revise present forest and land management policies to provide stronger and more accountable measures.
• Prevent the occurrence of forest fires through better preparation, especially in the areas prone to forest fires.
• Provide land grants to universities for forestry researches.
• Support research and development of fast growig high quality forest trees.
• Replenish the forests in the rural areas and replant trees in the urban areas.
• Promote low impact logging practices.

Waste:

• Devise an integrated waste management scheme, especially for the urban areas which are still rapidly developing more real estates.
• Encourage and promote waste minimization and clean production in the industry through research and public campaigns. Coastal Resources:
• Continue and develop the national marine resources evaluation and planning program to include management issues and institutional support to assist the Provincial and District Bappedas to increase the level of community participation in the spatial planning process.
• Continue the national surveying and mapping program as well as develop the national geographic information system in which coastal area and small islands are put as priority .
• Promote the coral reef rehabilitation planning and management, as well as mangrove rehabilitation and management program to piloting community based management of coastal resources as a key initiative to implement coastal zone management plans under the 1992 Spatial Planning Act No. 24.
• Continue promoting and strengthening water resources management with particular emphasis on national networking of hydrology information system, which will link in with other natural resources information system.
• Develop and integrate the nation wide tide gauge station network to enable sea level rise monitoring in the country for a long run period. Vertical datum definition study will be conducted with reference to an absolute International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) through an international co-operation in the Asia and Pacific region.
• Prepare long term adaptation strategy for the possibilities of sea-level rise due to climate change in the various coastal areas.

Public Health:

• Promote use of environmentally friendly fuels and healthy transportation system.
• Promote healthy environment housing.
• Prepare Environmental Impact Assessment (AMDAL) and its enforcement with attention to climate change impacts for all major development including health services.
• Promote emergency response system for sporadic climate change disaster. International Cooperation

Adaptation Policies:

• Formulate the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to cover insurance policy for adaptation measures.
• Under CDM, link the insurance mechanism with the level of global mitigation efforts. R&D Policies:
• Continue Cooperation in R and D on Climate Change Science, Economics, and Policy with other countries.
• Initiate R and D on new and renewable energy.
• Initiate South-South cooperation for R and D.

Mitigation Policies

• Follow the precautionary principles to mitigate climate change.
• Evaluate existing technology standards.
• Enhance Technology Cooperation.
• Identify voluntary measures that may be committed at the global levels.