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Ethiopia’s Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation | |
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2020-12-03 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | ![]() I would like to thank the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission (EFCCC) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and the Global Commission on Adaptation for bringing us together for this timely and vitally important event. I would also like to congratulate the partnership for its broad coalition and focus on renewed emphasis and momentum on systemic shift towards integrating nature-based solutions into adapting to climate change. UNDP commends countries including Ethiopia, civil society, Global Commission on Adaptation and many partners, in advancing efforts on adaptation and on the growing partnerships around nature-based solutions. We are all aware that there is an immense cost to inaction on climate and disaster risks, and that we are fast losing nature’s capacity to regulate fundamental water, climate and other life support systems on earth. To quote the UN Secretary General in his remarks yesterday, "Humanity is waging war on nature. And nature always strikes back -- and it is already doing so with growing force and fury". UNDP is firmly committed to advancing adaptation mainstreaming, ensuring that ecosystem based adaption and more broadly speaking, nature based solutions are fully considered within this mainstreaming effort, by drawing on our engagements with countries across the world, and especially reflecting the needs and priorities of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) - to ensure a sustainable path to climate resilient recovery and development. Ethiopia is highly vulnerable to climate change, COVID- 19 and environmental degradation. Widespread environmental degradation across large parts of Ethiopia is disrupting ecosystem services. Soil erosion and land degradation are the largest challenges faced in maintaining soil fertility and productivity of agricultural and range lands. According to the Climate Resilient Green Economic Strategy, at current rates of exploitation of forests, between the period of 2010 and 2030, an area of 9 million hectares might be deforested. The annual cost of land degradation in Ethiopia is estimated to be 2 to 3 % of agricultural GDP. Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed Ethiopia’s vulnerability to various shocks, for which the country needs to build resilience.Therefore, it is urgent and important to take up nature based solutions to adapt to climate change and ensure a resilient recovery post pandemic. Considering the COVID pandemic, it is all the more urgent that nature based solutions designed to address the co-vulnerabilities of the health/nature/climate crises are advanced:
I would like to a moment to highlight UNDP’s commitments and contributions in this area and towards Ethiopia’s resilience:
We recognize Ethiopia’s commitment and leadership in Green Economy and Nature Based Solutions. Ethiopia has made several commitments at policy level, that include:
As we reinforce our efforts to adapt to climate change and prepare to build back better, we absolutely need to seek an environmentally sustainable development pathway. To conclude, I would like to quote again the words of the UN SG, “the recovery from the pandemic is an opportunity. We can see rays of hope in the form of a vaccine. But there is no vaccine for the planet. Nature needs a bailout. In overcoming the pandemic, we can also avert climate cataclysm and restore our planet. This is an epic policy test. But ultimately this is a moral test. It is time to flick the “green switch”. We have a chance to not simply reset the world economy but to transform it”. UNDP will continue our work alongside our partners, across the UN system, governments, donors, civil society, and private sector to protect the health of our planet, ecosystems, lives, and livelihoods. UNDP commits to partnering with Ethiopia on its vision for climate-resilient development. Thank you ! |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/306220 |
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