Environmental Science and Technology Lib Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program Book 8 (Paperback)

Martin Parry University College London UK The 13 country studies collected in this re- Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide country-by-country (Carter et al. 1994) as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of and appro- set of scientific methods for climate impact priate adaptations to greenhouse-gas-in- assessment and has written its own guidance duced global climate change. document Guidance for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (U.S. CSP 1994). Under the U.N. Framework Convention on The u.S. Country Studies Program devel- Climate Change (UNFCCC) signatories oped the Guidance and other reviews of agreed to two near-term actions and one ma- methodology into a nonspecialist set of jor subsequent one. The two near-term ac- workbooks for use at the country level tions are to make annual estimates of the which backed up by advice from experi- emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases enced scientists from the United States and which are now being reported as part of a other countries enabled local scientists to country-by-country inventory developed by conduct their own vulnerability and adapta- the U.N. Environment Programme the Or- tion assessments.