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The National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (NCCAS) has developed a framework for combating climate change. [57] Their framework includes five components which were assessed from 2011 to 2016: Mainstream climate-change adaptation into national planning and development; Enabling climate-resilient and healthy human settlements
The effects of climate change on human health can be grouped into direct and indirect effects. [8]: 1867 Both types of effects interact with social dynamics.The combination of effects and social dynamics determines the eventual health outcomes.
Climate change may affect tropical cyclones in a variety of ways: an intensification of rainfall and wind speed, a decrease in overall frequency, an increase in frequency of very intense storms and a poleward extension of where the cyclones reach maximum intensity are among the possible consequences of human-induced climate change. [26]
Compounding these issues, the impacts of climate change, such as accelerated sea level rise, exacerbate the state's high susceptibility to natural disasters, like flooding and landslides. [5] Aside from geography, climate change impacts regions with a history of colonization more intensely than regions without a history of colonization. [6]
The effects of climate change are predicted to be more severe in mountains of northern latitude. Heat and drought as a result of climate change has been found to severely impact tree mortality rates, putting forest ecosystems at high risk.
Response to climate change in Nepal has been growing in recent years with an effort to cope with the changing situation and build resilience capacity into adaptation to climate change. In climate induced vulnerability context, Nepal has developed policy level provision such as the National Adaptation Programme of Action to climate change (NAPA ...
Furthermore, climate change may cause ecological disruption among interacting species, via changes in behaviour and phenology, or via climate niche mismatch. [9] For example, climate change can cause species to move in different directions, potentially disrupting their interactions with each other. [10] [11]
The impacts on health of climate change fueled extreme heat are anticipated to be minimal due to Florida's already warm climate that means that much of the population is acclimatized, or adjusted, to heat and most buildings have air conditioning installed. [58]