2°C is too much! WWF adaptation case studies for responding to climate change impacts

This document includes brief case studies which identify “natural solutions”, which are often an essential contribution to cost effective climate change adaptation and mitigation. They emphasize the role of natural systems for regulating water flow, improving water quality, reducing disaster impacts, protecting soil, sustaining fisheries productivity and sequestering and storing carbon.

The brief case studies include: 1. The Greater Mekong (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar,Tibetan Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province [China]); 2. Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the north Caucasus portion of the Russian Federation, north-eastern Turkey and part of north-western Iran); 3. The Eastern Himalayas (Nepal); 4. The East African Coast (Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique); 5. The Northern Andes (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela); 6. The Central Yangtze (China); 7. The Danube (19 Countries including Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova); 8. American Gran Chaco (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and a small part in Brazil); 9. The Meso-American Reef (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras); 10. The Coral Triangle (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island and Timor Leste); 11. The Southern Ocean (Encircles the entire Antarctic Continent); 12. Donaña (Spain); 13. Sundarbans (West Bengal); 14. The Ruaha Basin (Tanzania); 15. Altai-Sayan (Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and far north-western China); and 16. Fiji.