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Fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP14), Poznan, Poland, 1-12 December 2008

IUCN recommends that COP 14:

√ Urges Parties to include ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation as a priority in the Nairobi Work Programme, in its possible successor as well as in a post 2012 UNFCCC regime;

√ Urges States to provide for appropriate funding for ecosystem-based adaptation, including projects, research and capacity building;

√ Urges States to establish a framework within which vulnerability and needs assessments are essential precursors of adaptation plans and strategies and are
carried out as a matter of urgency and to organize, as appropriate, the necessary resources to carry these out;

√ Calls for States to mainstream ecosystem-based adaptation as an integral element of overall climate change adaptation in poverty reduction strategies and
development planning;

√ Calls for States to establish appropriate linkages between disaster risk reduction initiatives under the Hyogo Framework for Action and adaptation plans and
strategies at all levels;

√ Urges Parties to the UNFCCC to consider the analysis requested by the UN Council on Human Rights on the inter-linkages between human rights and climate change, in the process of defining the post 2012 regime, in particular, in respect to adaptation to climate change;

√ Calls on Parties to mobilize new and innovative resources that go beyond the current funding mechanisms under the Convention and the Protocol;

√ Calls on Parties to prioritize, in the allocation of the resources, most vulnerable developing countries or regions, on the basis of vulnerability and needs assessments and in line with national development plans and strategies.