Equity and Justice Implications of Adaptation to Climate Change

While FIELD's primary concern is to strengthen international action to prevent further climate change, we recognise that the current framework is insufficient to achieve this objective. The effects of climate change are already being felt and will have an increasing impact on developing countries and in particular the poor in those countries. FIELD is committed to helping vulnerable communities in developing countries to strengthen and make use of provisions under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol to assist them in adapting to climate change.

With support of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, FIELD is working together with the International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED) and CSERGE, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia on a project to assess the equity and justice implications of adaptation.

Project Papers:

FIELD: "Adaption Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Legal Framework", Mace, M.J., August 2003. Available in PDF.

Symposium papers have been accepted for publication by MIT Press in 2005, in a volume to be titled 'Fairness in Adapting to Climate Change', (eds) Adger, N., Huq, S., Mace, M. and Paavola, J.

Justice and Adaptation to Climate Change, Jouni Paavola and Neil Adger, October 2002. Available On-line.

Project Activities:

International Symposium on Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change. September 7-9, 2003. Click here for symposium programme.

Click here for conference photo.

Side event at COP-8 in New Delhi, 24 October 2002. For coverage by Earth Negotiations Bulletin On the side, including audio.

Further information on the project at the Tyndall Website, including project fact sheet and project technical information.