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Building Sri Lanka’s Resilience To Climate Change

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Extreme weather events dominate the news but changing average weather patterns are proving equally devastating to poor and vulnerable people in climate hotspots across South Asia.
• About 19 million people in Sri Lanka today live in locations that would become moderate or severe hotspots by 2050.
• A new report provides the right data and climate simulations to help put in place incentives, policies and smart solutions to protect communities across the country.

38-year-old Sivasidambaram Vasugi is the General Manager of one of the first cooperative-owned seed paddy processing centers in Killinochchi, Si Lanka. The Integrated Farmers Thrift and Credit Cooperative Society (IFTCCS) provides local farmers with high-quality seeds, but these days, there are no buyers walking in the door.

Her community is facing a crippling water shortage following many months of drought. Nearly 18,000kg of processed paddy seed stock sits unclaimed on Vasugi’s factory floor, while weeds sprout in the paddy fields all around.

“Only when the rains come again, they will buy the seeds,” she says. “In the meantime, we have no sales, and we are not making any profits.” Farming households are coming undone thanks to this drought. Vasugi sees local men migrate to work as day laborers, while their families stay behind and fight to make ends meet. Many merely struggle to put food on the table.

Vasugi lives in a climate hotspot.

Areas like this are the focus of the World Bank’s new regional flagship report South Asia’s Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards .

The report examines how

“These weather events have one thing in common: They affect the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable the most,” said Andrew Goodland, World Bank program leader for Sustainable Development covering Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Speaking at the launch of South Asia’s Hotspots he added: “We need to both scale up actions and strategies to build a more resilient world, and target interventions to help the most vulnerable.”

South Asia’s Hotspots

Climate change could undermine living standards for the poorest

Changes in average weather unfold over months and years. As Vasugi can testify, in such hotspots,

Simultaneously, For those working outside air-conditioned cubicles, extreme heat takes a toll on productivity and subsequently, income. It doesn’t help that many hotspots are already in socially and economically vulnerable areas

At the frontlines in Sri Lanka are those living in the island’s North, North Eastern and North Central districts, including Jaffna, Puttalam, Mannar, Kurunegalla, Trincomalee and Killinochchi, where the paddy seed processing center is located.  

Vasugi’s home has something in common with other hotspots across the region, such as Hyderabad in Pakistan, Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Chandrapur in India.

These experiences on the ground inevitably impact the national economy. “ ,” said  Muthukumara Mani ,  a lead economist  in the World Bank South Asia Region and  author of the report . “Under the worst-case scenario, GDP will decline by 7.7 percent, an estimated loss of 50 billion dollars.”

While policymakers are worried by this information, Mani knows it doesn’t necessarily help them prepare. So this report seeks to unpack where exactly changes will occur most, who will be impacted and what can be done to build resilience.

He and his team analyzed two future climate scenarios — one that is “climate-sensitive,” in which some collective action is taken to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The other is “carbon-intensive,” in which no action is taken. Both scenarios show rising temperatures throughout the region in the coming decades but it’s no surprise that the carbon-intensive scenario is more worrying.

According to the report, a

Granular details include how effects will differ from country to country and from district to district throughout South Asia.

This is a substantial drop, with potentially large implications for the country, given that the province contributes more than 40 percent of Sri Lanka’s GDP.

Overall, the analysis concludes that

Mani points out that this might not seem like a lot until you consider how just a two-week delay in monsoons can derail a farmer’s harvest, or how a scorching day can drain a construction worker laboring on a scaffolding.

Investing in sustainable development could build resilience

“We need to follow an inclusive green growth path here,” says Mohan Munasinghe, who was the keynote speaker at the launch. He drew on his experiences as Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4) and the Chairman of the Presidential Expert Commission on Sustainable Sri Lanka 2030 Vision, saying: “We have to make development more sustainable in a way that is climate-proof and which integrates mitigation and adaptation.”

It is hoped that this information can help build a development blueprint by focusing resilience-building efforts on the most vulnerable locations and population groups. “The report provides the right data and climate simulations to help us put in place incentives, policies and smart solutions to protect communities across the country and boost their future development,” said Anura Dissanayake Secretary of Mahaweli Development and Environment Authority.

In particular, the report explores how three strategies, already essential components of Sri Lanka’s sustainable development programs, could help buffer vulnerable communities.

Other initiatives like reducing the time to reach a market and increasing average education attainment could also reduce the overall severity of climate-related living standards impacts. The report emphasizes that if these interventions were implemented together, they would likely yield greater benefits than if implemented individually.

In the end, the focus has to be on ensuring that climate change does not undo the considerable progress that South Asian countries have made in alleviating extreme poverty and raising living standards.

As Mani concluded: “Sustainable development is the best adaptation strategy since it is associated with improved infrastructure, market-oriented reforms, enhanced human capabilities, and stronger institutional capacity to respond to the increasing threat of climate change and natural disasters.”

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Preparing for the impact of climate change in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka needs to prioritise climate risk

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30 October 2021

In collaboration with international institutions, Sri Lankan policymakers have prepared a suite of initiatives to improve the country’s long-term resilience to climate risks – but they are going unimplemented, Jeevethan Selvachandran writes.

Sri Lanka is a country with a diverse and beautiful natural environment that attracts tourists from every corner of the world, but that environment is under threat.

In recent years, the country’s three-decade-long civil war, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the country’s economic crisis have dominated the government’s attention – meaning other important issues, like the effects of climate change, have gone under the radar.

This is an important question for Sri Lanka’s policymakers. Amidst the pandemic and its economic setbacks, how is Sri Lanka protecting its valuable environment and combating the effects of climate change?

According to the 2021 Asian Development Bank’s Accelerating Sustainable Development after COVID-19 report, based on data from 2020, Sri Lanka’s climate action measures were identified as being on track in terms of combating climate change.

While the report finds the country is relatively well-positioned to meet its obligations in combating climate change, another listed Sri Lanka among the top 65 countries most at risk from the impacts of climate change, with its effects threatening health, education, and the environment, and called for immediate and effective action.

Another report by the World Bank Group recognised Sri Lanka as especially vulnerable to climate change’s impacts, due to a combination of political, geographic, and social factors.

These impacts include rising temperatures, which are expected to hit Sri Lanka’s most important sectors, like tourism, commercial agriculture, and manufacturing, the hardest. On top of this, increased incidence of disease transmission and natural disasters will make the country vulnerable to unexpected catastrophes.

As they have elsewhere, these changes will disproportionately impact Sri Lanka’s poorest and the most marginalised communities, exacerbating poverty and inequality.

So, what have Sri Lankan policymakers done to prepare?

Recognising the danger, they have prepared initiatives that combat indirect risks associated with climate change, including a Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program through the Ministry of Education.

In terms of poverty and inequality, they have also begun cooperating with international actors like the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank to focus on a green economic recovery.

This includes climate-smart development, primarily by empowering local small landholders, ensuring food and water security, biodiversity conservation, sustainable biomass energy production, and increased disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and management.

Much of this cooperation with the World Bank focuses on flood-risk mitigation and long-term resilience to climate risks, beginning in 2010 with the Dam Safety and Water Resources Planning Project.

The Sri Lankan Government also recently signed a $92 million financing agreement with the World Bank for the Climate Resilience Multi-Phased Program Phase I Project, comprising of five components.

The first is of these is improving forecasting and early-warning systems for high impact weather and floods.

The second is investment in landslide and flood risk mitigation in the Kelani river.

The third is land acquisition and resettlement assistance.

The fourth is ensuring successful implementation of these systems.

Finally, the fifth is a Contingent Emergency Response Component, which allows the two parties to reallocate funds from other project components to mitigate, respond to, and recover from potentially harmful consequences of emergencies.

Surely, these are all great signs.

But despite preparing these necessary steps, implementation has been limited, especially in the war-ravaged northern region of Sri Lanka, which was severely hit by Cyclone Burevi at the end of 2020.

Part of the reason for this is the current economic crisis, which seems to be drawing policymakers’ attention away from preparing for the impacts of climate change.

For example, amidst its economic emergency, Sri Lanka is strongly considering oil and gas investments worth approximately $167 billion in order to settle its national debts. This move comes just before the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, where intensive discussions on decarbonisation will take place.

Indeed, at its Energy Sector Response Meeting in 2019, Sri Lanka pledged to enforce the targets of the Paris Agreement on climate change, including by reducing dependency on fossil fuels and investments in them. The choice to invest heavily in oil and gas would stand in contrast to these principles.

In the longer term, a delay in the implementation of climate policies could hinder Sri Lanka’s ability to overcome climate change-related economic setbacks, harming its citizens’ future.

That future, whether Sri Lanka acts on it or not, relies on the execution of the climate change preparations that policymakers have planned in collaboration with international actors. This must not fall aside for the sake of solving short-term problems.

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Climate Change Threatens Resilience of Sri Lankan Rainforests

A long-term study by Yale School of the Environment scientists found that climate change and other disturbances may be altering the resilience of Sri Lankan rainforests, turning them from carbon sinks to carbon sources.

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Tropical ecosystems store over half of the world’s above-ground carbon in their biomass, making them critically important in the global fight against climate change. As carbon dioxide levels continue to rise in the atmosphere, scientists are questioning whether climate change will enhance carbon sequestration through accelerated tree growth or expose rainforests to warmer, drier climates that could increase water stress, suppress tree growth, and dry out soils.

Mark S. Ashton Senior Associate Dean of The Forest School; Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; Director of Yale Forests

To examine how climate change is affecting tree species and carbon sequestration in tropical forests, Mark Ashton , Morris K. Jessup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology at the Yale School of the Environment, along with a team of scientists calculated above-ground biomass from tree plots in the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka over a 40-year period. The area has remained undisturbed by economic activity, offering the opportunity to determine trends in biomass, and the forests are notable for harboring the highest amounts of carbon of all tropical forests, making them a particularly critical source of climate change mitigation. The Sri Lanka plots examined by the team are dominated by dipterocarp, a tall forest tree in Southeast Asia, and are home to Ceylon ironwood ( Mesua nagassarium ), a slow-growing tree species valued for their dense wood.

The study, the first of its kind to examine above ground biomass for mixed dipterocarp forests, found that some of the long-lived, slow-growing tree species that characterize the forests are declining. Rather than acting as stable carbon sinks, some Sri Lankan forests affected by climate change are now carbon sources, the authors concluded in the study published in Forest Ecosystems .

“There's a lot of emphasis on the ability of growing forests to sequester carbon, but studies of old forests with especially large trees that sequester carbon and mitigate climate are few and far between,” Ashton said. “The studies that do exist are based on relatively short time spans and don’t really take into account the fact that climate change itself is affecting these forests. There’s growing evidence that old forests might be more susceptible to the impacts of climate change than younger forests.”

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Between 1978 and 2018, there was an average decline of 17% in biomass across three sites in the forests, with Ceylon ironwood accounting for the highest proportion of that decline, the scientists found. Late-successional, slow-growing trees contributed to the largest declines, releasing their stored carbon as they expired. Drought episodes as a result of climate change, along with fungal pathogens, likely killed the trees, the scientists said.

Ashton and the co-authors said the study highlights the importance of protecting and managing the rain forests so they can continue to function as carbon sinks and build resilience to climate change, insects, diseases, and land use conversion.

“A lot of people think that the sheer diversity of rainforest tree species makes them very resilient,” Ashton said. “But that’s not necessarily true. If only a handful of species, all related to one another, occupies the biomass — the way dipterocarps do — that makes them similarly susceptible to the same diseases, insects, and other disturbances.”

The research team included lead author Sisira Ediriweera,  professor of applied sciences at Uva Wellassa University, and YSE doctoral students David Woodbury and Arun Dayanandan .

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Climate change threatens resilience of Sri Lankan rainforests

by Yale University

Tropical ecosystems store over half of the world's above-ground carbon in their biomass, making them critically important in the global fight against climate change. As carbon dioxide levels continue to rise in the atmosphere, scientists are questioning whether climate change will enhance carbon sequestration through accelerated tree growth or expose rainforests to warmer, drier climates that could increase water stress, suppress tree growth, and dry out soils.

To examine how climate change is affecting tree species and carbon sequestration in tropical forests , Mark Ashton, Morris K. Jessup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology at the Yale School of the Environment, along with a team of scientists calculated above-ground biomass from tree plots in the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka over a 40-year period.

The area has remained undisturbed by economic activity , offering the opportunity to determine trends in biomass, and the forests are notable for harboring the highest amounts of carbon of all tropical forests, making them a particularly critical source of climate change mitigation.

The Sri Lanka plots examined by the team are dominated by dipterocarp, a tall forest tree in Southeast Asia, and are home to Ceylon ironwood (Mesua nagassarium), a slow-growing tree species valued for their dense wood.

The study, the first of its kind to examine above ground biomass for mixed dipterocarp forests, found that some of the long-lived, slow-growing tree species that characterize the forests are declining. Rather than acting as stable carbon sinks, some Sri Lankan forests affected by climate change are now carbon sources, the authors concluded in the study published in Forest Ecosystems .

"There's a lot of emphasis on the ability of growing forests to sequester carbon, but studies of old forests with especially large trees that sequester carbon and mitigate climate are few and far between," Ashton said. "The studies that do exist are based on relatively short time spans and don't really take into account the fact that climate change itself is affecting these forests. There's growing evidence that old forests might be more susceptible to the impacts of climate change than younger forests."

Between 1978 and 2018, there was an average decline of 17% in biomass across three sites in the forests, with Ceylon ironwood accounting for the highest proportion of that decline, the scientists found. Late-successional, slow-growing trees contributed to the largest declines, releasing their stored carbon as they expired. Drought episodes as a result of climate change, along with fungal pathogens , likely killed the trees, the scientists said.

Ashton and the co-authors said the study highlights the importance of protecting and managing the rain forests so they can continue to function as carbon sinks and build resilience to climate change, insects, diseases, and land use conversion.

"A lot of people think that the sheer diversity of rainforest tree species makes them very resilient," Ashton said. "But that's not necessarily true. If only a handful of species, all related to one another, occupies the biomass—the way dipterocarps do—that makes them similarly susceptible to the same diseases, insects, and other disturbances."

The research team included lead author Sisira Ediriweera, professor of applied sciences at Uva Wellassa University, and YSE doctoral students David Woodbury and Arun Dayanandan.

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