Final Technical Report - weADAPT

issues that may lead to further policy initiation and implementation, especially the transboundary
issues and/or regional collaboration in collective adaptation to climate change.
8 National Communications, Science-Policy Linkages and Stakeholder
Engagement
The next Second National Communications to UNFCCC would emphasize
substantially more on the impacts of climate change on natural system and human society
than its first generation, yet expertise and know-how to assess and formulate adaptive
strategy in systematic ways are still much lacking in the Mekong River countries. The
activities under this research had helped in develop research capacity of both personnel as
well as network among institutions in Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam to be able to assist
or responsible in the preparation of the next National Communication to UNFCCC.
In addition, the result from the activities under this research, which includes tool, data,
methodology, analysis summary, etc., such as model and dataset, high resolution regional
climate scenario, analysis on impact of climate change on hydrological regime and crop
productivity, etc., would be summarized and disseminated to relevant policy makers as well
as other stakeholders in the Southeast Asia region for further study in wider scale as well as
be used in future policy consideration.
However, as the preparation of second National Communications to UNFCCC has
not yet started in the countries where this regional study had involved in the study, so the
issue on future contribution from this research to the National Communications to UNFCCC
is yet to be followed up.
As far as the science-policy linkage is concerned, the principle investigator of this
research, Dr.Anond Snidvongs, was appointed a member of National Climate Change
Committee of Thailand and the associate investigator, Mr.Suppakorn Chinvanno, was also
appointed a member of working group in developing national climate change strategy for
Thailand.
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