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30. What is “No Regret” approach in responding to

climate change?

The “No-regret” approach is to select in a particular area can be considered a
climate risk or vulnerability mitigation “regret” solution when future costs are even
activities that work and are not harmful to most more significant than the present benefits.
or all future conditions. In other words, this The “No Regret” approach or “No
approach ensures that current climate change Regret” action is the actions by households,
response actions do not have and minimize communities and local/national, international
adverse impacts on people’s livelihoods, organizations that can be justified from
economic development, socio-cultural and economic, social and environmental
environmental impacts and the area’s ecology perspectives regardless of natural hazards or
in the future. For example, the construction of climate change events (or risks). “No regret”
dikes to prevent floods can help proactively actions increase resilience, which is the ability
respond to floods and increase rice production, of a “system” to respond to different types
thereby ensuring food security and increasing of risks in a timely, efficient, and equitable
income for farmers who grow rice. However, manner. Increased resilience is the basis
in the long term, this system can reduce for sustainable growth in a perilous world
water storage capacity, resulting in flooding (Heltberg, Siegel, Jorgensen, 2009; UNDP,
in other areas, increasingly depleting land 2010). Therefore, “No regret” actions should
due to lack of additional alluvium, changing be based on a comprehensive information
cultural practices (e.g. such as transportation, system, accurately forecast long-term
construction of houses, graves, etc.); and changing factors, and always place protected
cause environmental pollution and ecological objects in a dynamic approach to accurately
imbalance because farmers will need to use a assess the consequences/results of all current
lot of chemical inputs to ensure productivity, or interventions for the entire system in the future.
reduce aquatic resources, etc. Such solutions

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