Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the South Caucasus Mountains

Conclusions on analysis of adaptation policies for vulnerable sectors

Observed climate

The findings of the study in Chapter 2: Analysis of adaptation policies for vulnerable sectors be summarised as follows (see also table on the right): • None of the South Caucasus countries have specially designated legal acts on climate change (neither on mitigation nor on adaptation); • All the countries made commitments to elaborate NAPAs or National Adaptation Strategies; • Development strategies and programmes of the all countries in most cases, refer to climate vulnerability; however, they do not consider tangible adaptation measures; • Environmental sectoral policy documents at best have references to vulnerability to climate and propose particular adaptation actions; especially in biodiversity and forestry sectors. Moreover, these two sectors do refer to mountain region/ ecosystem vulnerability to climate change; • Agricultural policies of the all three countries consider the need to increase the resilience of the sector to climate change; • Most of other sectoral policy documents do not consider climate change adaptation as a priority; however, some of them consider climate change mitigation actions, e.g. in the energy sector; • Most of the countries do not have specially designed financial mechanisms for adaptation, besides national budgetary and international funds; • Most of the countries do have specific national coordination mechanisms; • All the countries share similar approaches to stakeholder consultations, mostly defined by

Analysis of the institutional framework for climate change adaptation

Ar

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Special climate legal acts

No

No

No

Observed −

Climate adaptation strategy/action

−

−

Existence of adaptation strategy/action

No

No

No

Temperature Extreme temperature (+) Precipitation Extreme precipitation Mostly yes Commitment to develop nation policies − − No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Climate adaptation in development strategies Climate adaptation in sectoral strategies Environmental strategies Agriculture strategies Health strategies Infrastructure/Transport strategies Energy strategies Tourism strategies Natural Disasters strategies Special financial mechanisms for climate adaptation Coordination mechanisms at governmental level for climate adaptation Common monitoring & evaluation mechanism for climate adaptation Mostly yes No

Yes

Yes

Mostly yes

Mostly yes

−

Mostly yes

Mostly yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

No

N/A

Observed climate No No No Mostly yes

No

Yes

No

No

Designated authority for climate action Stakeholder consultation mechanisms

MoNP

MoENR

MoENRP

Ar

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observed

69 Sources : Second National Communication