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| Article Title | A systematic analysis of enabling conditions for synergy between climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in developing countries | | Author | Lalisa A. Duguma, Susan W. Wambugu, Peter Akong Minang and Meine van Noordwijk | | Year | 2014 | | Journal Title | Environmental Science & Policy | | Institution | Elsevier Ltd | | Volume | 42 | | Pages | 138-148 | | Call Number | JA0587-14 | | Keywords | Synergy, Adaptation, Mitigation, Enabling conditions |
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| There is a growing quest for synergy between mitigation and adaptation due to concerns of
inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the compartmentalized approaches to climate change.
However, little has been done to explore the necessary enabling conditions for synergistic
design and implementation. This paper proposes an analytical framework to assess enabling
conditions for synergies at the national level and applies it to developing countries to
explore the potential move toward synergy. Four enabling conditions for integrating
adaptation and mitigation, i.e. policies and strategies, programs and projects, institutional
arrangements and financial mechanisms, were used to score developing countries relative
to each other. We hypothesized that low income and vulnerable countries might more likely
pursue synergy given the urgency for both adaptation and mitigation. Despite the relative
infancy of the synergy concept, about half of countries studied exhibited good synergy
potential, 80% of which were middle-income developing countries. The assumption of
vulnerability as a precursor for pursuing synergy was supported by the fact that small
island states possessed relatively high synergy potential. Income was weakly associated
with the synergy potential with least developed countries having low synergy scores.
Emerging economies possessed strong synergy potential which might be associated with
better capacity available and/or potential for shaping their global images due to their
growing emissions. In sum, the proposed analytical framework could be useful to identify
areas of emphasis to promote holistic and efficient climate policies. As this study largely
focused on the enabling conditions, further studies are needed to scrutinize and manage the
mitigation-adaptation balances in countries possessing good synergy potentials. |
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