CLIMATE CHANGE AND ACTIONS

Global warming and climate change are the challenges of the millennium. These phenomena have become a threat to the environment, to sustainable development and a deterrent to economic growth and global welfare. Climate change mitigation and adaptation measures should become a priority of national policy. Studies also show that the impact of global warming is directly proportional to the population’s living standards and mostly affects people in countries, who have actually polluted the least. The Republic of Moldova is no exception in that and is facing the negative impact of the phenomena like the catastrophic drought in 2007 and devastating floods in 2008 and 2010. As a result, climate change poses a serious threat to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which Moldova has committed to after signing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and after the accession to the Kyoto Protocol.

Climate change and actions can however also create opportunities for transforming the economy in the direction of greater sustainability in a broad sense, thus paving the way towards poverty reduction and the achievement of the MDGs. Moldova has set itself an ambitious goal in developing the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.

ACTIVITIES

To contribute to the mitigation of the impact and effects of climate change on the environment and the society of the Republic of Moldova. In particular:

• To stimulate research on environmental monitoring in connection with the Millennium Development Goals of the Republic of Moldova
• By being ambitious to be an active partner in the execution of the National
• Climate Change Adaptation Program and its Action Plan
• to promote the implementation of adaptation measures
• to facilitate in conducting a joint (communication) strategy that supports and strengthens the access to information, public awareness, and public participation in the decision making process
• awareness raising activities on the phenomenon of climate change and methods to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
• identifying climate change impacts on the vulnerability of the human health, the environment, as well on the economic sectors in Moldova
• identifying immediate needs for action, research, policy and recommendations for future steps to adapt to climate change
• to initiate cooperation with and between authorities at different levels and collaboration with academia in matters related to climate change adaptation for all sectors
• international cooperation and implementation of measures at a national level to reduce Green House Gas emissions and the adaptation of these measures to mitigate climate change impacts at a term short, medium and long term