1. Combating Climate Change: Is climate change adaptation out of business? Dhaka, 20 March 2012

2.  Harnessing forests, trees and agroforestry for climate change mitigation  Enhancing climate change adaptation  Understanding synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation Climate change adaptation and mitigation Research component

3. Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation Mitigation Adaptation Climate change and variability Impacts Responses Adaptation Mitigation Kyoto Protocol UNFCCC

4. Tropical Wetlands Initiatives for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation (TWINCAM)

5. Capacity building – TWINCAM Project  Understanding the nature of wetlands, threats and opportunity for CC adaptation and mitigation  Equipping partners with necessary tools  Designing collaborative research  Engaging public and private sectors

6. Wetlands for CC mitigation New finding: Surprisingly large amounts of carbon stored in mangrove forests, especially below ground Mangrove photo Source: Donato et al. (2011)

7. Global survey – 2011/12 Gabon Mozambique Mexico Costa Rica Ecuador Vietnam India

8. UNFCCC Side Event SB-32 identified the limitation of the IPCC 2006 for GHGs National Inventory SB-34 we organized a Side event to synergize adaptation strategies and measures Invited by IPCC to develop new methodologies for GHGs inventories in wetlands  Tropical wetlands for CC adaptation and mitigation in the global agenda

9.  Joint CIFOR-CATIE research on tropical forests and climate change adaptation in Honduras influenced the design of one of the first projects ever approved by the UNFCCC’s Adaptation Fund Board  Can we do the same for Bangladesh?  National agencies should be involved  BCAS? Wetlands for CC adaptation

10. The Sundarbands The world's largest remaining single block of mangrove (10,000 km 2 ) Delta front has undergone a net erosion of ~170 km 2 of coastal land in the 40 years Source: Rahman et al. (2011) The world mangroves

12. CC mitigation has been widely recognized than adaptation Synergizing CC adaptation and mitigation is not an option Wetlands have a huge potential for CC adaptation and mitigation Scientific communities see CC adaptation as policy relevant This may encourage business community to play its roles The way forward