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Belgium National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Belgium National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Climate Change
Policy
2010
Year of publication
2010
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Erosion, Floods, Sea level rise
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Sub-region
Western Europe
Region
Western Europe
Macro-region
Europe
Author/issuing body
National Climate Commission
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

Since 2008, the Belgian development cooperation has explicitly included the fight against climate change in its policy as a priority. This is due to the fact that the consequences of climate change in many countries in the south are an important source of instability in terms of food security, biodiversity loss, land degradation and desertification, (environmental) migration, public health and tensions that could lead to conflicts.

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).