Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the South Caucasus Mountains

Georgia

provisions within the Aarhus Convention on public participation; • In all three countries the designated authority for development and planning of adaptation actions is the ministry for the environment. But it is worth noting that these agencies do not have sufficient capacity, especially for development of methodologies and conducting monitoring and evaluation. • All of the countries share a similar approach to monitoring and evaluation of progress, i.e. through National Communications to the

UNFCCC, and none of them have nationally adopted comprehensive all-inclusive universal instruments for this purpose; • Another common trend for all countries is consideration of mountain and high mountain regions in social rather than an economic context; very few strategies and policy documents refer to mountain region/ecosystem vulnerability and/or propose special actions to increase their resilience to climate change. Those documents that do, relate to forestry resilience and biodiversity.

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