Activities

All TroFCCA regions will work under a common methodological framework but each will concentrate on topics of development for which forests contribute significantly in that location. In other words, the focus of TroFCCA on each region will be agreed regionally by the project team and national governments.

This task, as well as a broader adaptation policy dialogue will take place in regional and national workshops, to be implemented in due course of the project. TroFCCA will operate in three different phases as shown by the following figure:

Five main activities will be undertaken during these three phases:
Activity 1 (Phase 1):
Develop methods to assess the vulnerability of specific development topics deriving from impacts of climate change over forest ecosystems
Compilation of toolkits outlining the methods
  • Select development topics.
  • Literature review to collect information for the various steps of the methods
  • Compile available tools and information on the impacts of climate change over forests
  • Assemble and test methods

Activity 2 (Phase 2):
Use the methods to assess vulnerability on the development topics, biodiversity and carbon.
  • Select case study areas
  • Assess goods and services from forests in relation to climate change and climate variability
  • Develop climate scenarios
  • Apply the methods: assessment of vulnerability of the study areas
  • Assess costs
  • Develop vulnerability maps and extrapolate results

Activity 3 (Phases 1 and 2):
Development of criteria and indicators for adaptive management
  • Propose criteria and indicators
  • Test criteria and indicators
  • Refine criteria and indicators

Activity 4 (Phases 2 and 3):
Development of policy oriented strategies for tropical forest ecosystems.
  • Identify priorities on the basis of the vulnerability assessment
  • Literature review on adaptation strategies and definition of possible response measures
  • Develop adaptation actions in the context of the project
  • Policy and institutional needs analysis
  • Incorporate results into national communications and national adaptation programmes of action under the UNFCCC.
  • Develop innovative financial mechanisms for adaptation

Activity 5 (all Phases):
Science-policy dialogue in and across regions
  • Identify national and regional actors
  • Establish working relationships and define national partners
  • Hold regional and national workshops
  • Engage regional stakeholders in developing regional agendas for adaptation in forest ecosystems, including the dissemination of practical information on adaptive forest management to reduce vulnerability