Capacity Building Activities
NORAD Capacity Building ProgrammeThe Norwegian Aid Agency NORAD has been providing funding for capacity building in the DEAT Sub-Directorate for Global Climate Change since 2002. This funding has provided for customised training courses for staff from this sub-directorate and other areas of government in subjects such as environmental law, greenhouse gas inventory preparation and vulnerability and adaptation. It has also funded the production of specific products to assist the staff in the directorate with their everyday work - such as a database and this website. This programme of funding is due to end in April 2005.The capacity building programme has been delivered by Econ Analysis (Norway) and Palmer Development Group (PDG)(Johannesburg).
The concentration of C02 in the atmosphere has increased more than 30% since the dawn of the industrial revolution and is now higher than it has been in 430 000 years Climate Change could put 25% of all land animals and plants on a path to extinction over the next 50 yearsWith global warming, water availability is expected to decrease. 5 billion people are expected to be loving in water stressed areas by 2050 1998 was the hottest year (globally) on record - followed by 2002, 2003 and 2004 Alaska's glaciers have melted more in the last 100 years than at any time in the past 10 centuries
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