TY  - SER
AU  - Shrestha,Subina
AU  - Dhakal,Shobhakar
AU  - Shrestha,Sangam
AU  - Sasaki,Nophea
AU  - Regmi,Bimal Raj
ED  - Thailand (HM Queen), 
TI  - An assessment of potential synergies and conflicts in climate mitigation and adaptation policies of Nepal 
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Pathum Thani
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Nepal
KW  - Climatic change mitigation
KW  - Government policy
N1  - A thesissubmitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science inClimate Change and Sustainable Development; Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2017
N2  - There  are  two  lines  of  defense  to  address  the  pressing  issue  of  climate  change:  mitigation (reducing  the  emission  of  greenhouse  gases  and  enhancing  sequestration)  and  adaptation (reducing vulnerabilities and increasing resilience). Although there are fundamental differences between  these  two  strategies  across  spatial,  temporal,  institutional  andadministrative  scales,they can interact with each other, resulting in synergies or tradeoffs. An integrated approach in which the interactions of adaptation and mitigations strategies is consideredimportant to harness the  benefits  of  the  synergies  to  create  win-win  situations  and  avoid  conflicts  for  no-regret decisions. The mainaim of this study is to assess the extent and mechanisms of such interactions which exist  among  the  climate  change  related  policies  of  Nepal,  and  the  opportunities  and barriers  present  to  harness  the  synergies  and  reduce  the  conflicts. This  study  presentsa quantitative  analysis  of  the  existing  national  level  climate  policies  of  Nepal (in  Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use, Energy, Urban Systems and Water sectors) for identification of the  extent  and  mechanism  of  the  interactions  between  themby  using  a  scoring  system. Analytical Hierarchical Framework(AHP) has been used to rank and prioritize the opportunities and barriers to harness thesynergies and avoid the conflicts.Although all 4 sectors displayed the  potential  for  interactions,  with  AFOLU  sector  showing  the  highest  potential  for  both synergies and conflicts, these interactions have not been considered in policy formulation yet. An  institution  dedicated  to  climate  change  was  identified  as  the  most  important  opportunity, while  the  lack  of  adequate  institutional  co-ordination  was  identified  as  the  most  important barrier in the context of Nepal
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