As for climate change, the State Secretariat for
Environment (SSE), under the Ministry of Commerce
Industry and Environment, has elaborated the
National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
on Climate Change, with following nine adaptation
measures as priorities:
Food Security: Reduce the vulnerability of farmers
and pastoralists to increased drought and flood
events;
Water Resources: Promote Integrated Water
Resource Management (IWRM) to guarantee water
access in a climate change context;
Human Health: Enhance the capacity of the health
sector and communities to anticipate and respond
to changes in the distribution of endemic and
epidemic climate-sensitive diseases, and reduce
the vulnerability of populations to infection from
the expansion of climate-related diseases;
Natural Disasters: Improve institutional and
community capacity to prepare for and respond to
climate change induced natural disasters;
Forests, Biodiversity and Coastal Ecosystems:
Maintain and restore mangroves and forests, and
promote awareness raising to protect coastal
ecosystems and forests from climate change
impacts;
Livestock Production: Improve planning and legal
framework for the promotion of sustainable and
balanced food for livestock production;
Physical Infrastructure: Improve regulations,
standards and compliance for climate-resilient
infrastructure;
Support the ambitious target by improving the
capacity to forecast and adapt offshore oil and gas
infrastructure to withstand the expected increased
storm intensity at sea;
Underpinning all others, develop a National
Institutional Capacity for Climate Change through
which programme level coherence will be ensured.