Climate proofing the Greater Mekong
Maintaining diverse and healthy ecosystems is essential to maximizing ecological resilience to climate change. When nature goes bankrupt there won’t be a bailout.
Brewing storm
Anticipating the storm
WWF is shifting from a focus on conserving ‘what was’ to anticipating and managing change in an increasingly climate constrained world.
WWF’s major concern is to devise ways to make the Greater Mekong region more resilient to climate change: planning so that natural ecosystems can cope with the change.
Some examples of these actions are, maintaining the vegetation that offers coastlines and river banks natural protection from floods and storms, being strategic about protected areas to allow species to move across the landscape, being smart and holistic during infrastructure development, re-thinking agricultural practices and crops in many regions, and using spatial planning tools to think carefully about land use.
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Some examples of these actions are, maintaining the vegetation that offers coastlines and river banks natural protection from floods and storms, being strategic about protected areas to allow species to move across the landscape, being smart and holistic during infrastructure development, re-thinking agricultural practices and crops in many regions, and using spatial planning tools to think carefully about land use.
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As a country that emits a relatively negligible level of greenhouse gases, we are nonetheless committed to playing a part in the global effort to address climate change.
