Building Institutional Capacity for Implementing the National Climate Change Strategy in Romania
Romania has already been affected by climate change. The IPCC projections indicate that the climate will warm up over this century at least in line with global projections and precipitation patterns will shift so as to make winters wetter and summe...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26048527/building-institutional-capacity-implementing-national-climate-change-strategy-romania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24070 |
| Summary: | Romania has already been affected by
climate change. The IPCC projections indicate that the
climate will warm up over this century at least in line with
global projections and precipitation patterns will shift so
as to make winters wetter and summers drier. Already, in
2007, Romania experienced the warmest year in two decades
(average temperature 11.5° C against a 25 year average of
8.4° C) and the most severe drought in the last 60 years
while in 2005 there were historic floods, which caused 76
deaths and significant property damage. The effects of these
extreme weather events adversely affected the country
through significant economic loss in agriculture, transport,
energy supply, and water management. Consequently,
mitigation and adaptation to climate change are increasingly
important priorities for Romania. After the introduction
chapter, the current situation as well as the CC commitments
that Romania has undertaken are presented in chapter two.
Chapter three provides the possible good practices that
could provide inspiration for further reform. A contrast of
the commitments with the current capacity and the available
good practices has been substantiated in the analyses of
capacity gaps that need to be addressed in chapter four. The
next chapter provides the avenues for breaching those gaps
and sustainably building CC capacity in order to ensure the
smooth implementation of the strategy. Project management
and financing is treated separately in chapter six since it
has been an issue of particular concern and difficulty for
the GoR. Finally, chapter seven sets out the basic elements
of a public engagement campaign that will be essential for
making CC a national issue present in the awareness of the
public authorities, civil society and general public alike.
A comprehensive list of the proposed measures and their time
horizons can be found in annex one. |
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