GMS Forest and Biodiversity Program: Regional Support Project

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1 GMS Forest and Biodiversity Program: Regional Support Project Ornsaran Pomme Manuamorn Climate Change Coordinator GMS Environment Operations Center (EOC) Asian Development Bank Regional Consultation on Transboundary Biodiversity Landscapes Bangkok, Thailand 6-7 May 2014

2 Outline Rationale for a Regional Support Project GMS Forest and Biodiversity Program Regional Support Project (with financing from the Global Environment Facility-GEF) Complementarity between the Regional Support Project and CEP

3 GMS Transboundary Biodiversity Landscapes (TBLs) are under pressures Climate Change Overexploitation Infrastructure development (energy, transport) Land use change (agriculture, urbanization) Ecosystems In TBLs Climate Change

4 Climate change threatens GMS landscape and biodiversity conservation Direct impacts Habitat and ecosystem degradation Loss of distinctive vegetation Change in species composition Range shifts Species extinction Indirect impacts Overexploitation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as climate coping strategy Mounting hunting pressure on species Climate-induced shifts of agro-zones Climate refugees can clear forest land, making ecosystems more vulnerable

5 Rationale for a Regional Support Project Promote application of transboundary approaches and regional cooperation on TBLs in order to: capture large-scale ecological processes which help maintain forest viability and agricultural investments help GMS countries address cross-border challenges from climate change facilitate regional knowledge exchanges on climate-integrated conservation of TBLs

6 The Regional Support Project is part of a regional program financed by the GEF GMS Forest and Biodiversity Program GEF-Financed 1. National project in Lao PDR 2. National project in Cambodia 3. National project in Thailand 5. The Regional Support Project 4. National project in Viet Nam The GMS Core Environment Program (CEP), ADB Other GMS biodiversity conservation and landscape management projects

7 Design of the Regional Support Project Secured USD 1 million from the Global Environment Facility

8 How does the Regional Support Project Complement TBL assessment under CEP? Biodiversity profile Social-economic profile Climate profile Information system Monitoring system Climate-integrated conservation strategies and action plans Strengthened TBLs cooperation mechanism Knowledge sharing mechanism

9 TBL monitoring system partners Web site portal stakeholders Monitoring system Indicators Biodiversity/social-economic/ CLIMATE profiles Data/information

10 Future Activities 1. Develop TOR in consultation with countries. 2. Procure a consulting firm through ADB system 3. Identify methodologies 4. Conduct climate vulnerability assessments in TBLs, alongside biodiversity assessments 5. Establish framework and mechanisms to integrate climate change considerations, especially EBA, in the conservation strategies of TBLs

11 Discussion - which climate assessment methodologies to adopt? For climate vulnerability assessment, the Regional Support Project will consider relevant elements from existing frameworks such as: Flowing Forward (WWF and World Bank) USAID-Mekong River Basin Climate Change Project (MRB-CCAP) Lao PDR Sustainable Natural Resources Management Program (KfW) Other GEF SCCF/LDCF funded projects in Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia For integration of EBA, the project aims to build on the EBA framework development by World Bank and WWF Suggestions from this forum?

12 THANK YOU!

13 Additional Slides

14 Longer and warmer summer time, shorter and warmer winter time, wetter rainy season and increase in inter-annual variability of the weather pattern in mainland Southeast Asia. Projection SEA START Downscaled

15 Regional projections consistent with IPCC Predicted future change in average daily maximum temperature (compared to 1980 baseline) Source: SEA START

16 Regional projections consistent with IPCC Predicted change in length of hot period over the year (compared to 1980 baseline) Source: SEA START

17 Regional projections consistent with IPCC Predicted future change in rainfall (compared to 1980 baseline) Source: SEA START