Whats a best practice example of maintaining ecosystem services?
ML: As regards climate change adaptation, are you using future projections, or basing work on what is happening now? AW: Both. In Ethiopia, agriculture and GDP and how they relates to rainfall are very highly correlated. Their agricultural system can’t cope with current climate variability. There are ways potentially of making them more resilient by [changing] the type of crops, and how they use water. One of the big unknowns is what happens to the monsoon in India and Africa. We don’t understand how the monsoon is going to change in the future. We are not very good at predicting it now, let alone in the future. Understanding the monsoon along with the snow melt in places like the Himalayas is absolutely critical to understanding the livelihoods of people in the deltas, on the Ganges and bramaputra. It is absolutely essential that one looks into the future at how some of these ecosystems services may change as a result of the changing climate. ML: Speaking of snow melt in the Himalayas
