ESCWA launch website on the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR)

The Regional Initiative for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region is an outcome of a collaborative effort between the United Nations and the league of Arab States (LAS) and respective specialized organizations to respond to the request of the Arab Ministerial Water Council and the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment to deepen the understanding of the impact of climate change on water resources and its associated implications for socio-economic vulnerability in the Arab region.

The Regional Initiative aims at assessing the impact of climate change on freshwater resources in the Arab Region through a consultative and integrated assessment that seeks to identify the socio-economic and environmental vulnerability caused by climate change impacts on water resources in the Arab region.

OUTPUTS

The Regional Initiative will achieve the following outputs

Establish an Arab knowledge hub on climate and water.

Delineate an Arab Domain for regional climate modeling in accordance with CORDEX protocols.

Complete an ensemble of regional climate projections for the Arab region based on representative concentration pathways.

Conduct detailed analysis of climate change impacts on water resources based on hydrological modeling tools.

Incorporate extreme weather events analysis in the climate change impact assessment and vulnerability assessment.

Identify vulnerability hotspots.

Increase the capacity of Arab water ministries and meteorological institutions to engage in climate prediction and climate change projection.

Provide a common and comparable scientific understanding of climate change impacts and associated vulnerabilities across the Arab region.

Inform policy dialogue, negotiations and exchange among Arab decision-makers.

Contact information	n/a
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.escwa.un.org/RICCAR/ri.asp?ReferenceNum=RI
Source of information	ESCWA
Keyword(s)	climate change, Socio-Economic Vulnerability
Subject(s)	FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Relation	http://www.escwa.un.org/
Geographical coverage	n/a
News date	18/07/2012
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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