Iran's Adaptation and Mitigation to climate change

1.) According to the second convention of the UNFCCC, Iran’s National Climate Change Office (NCCO) was established in January 1998 under the auspices
of the Department of the Environment. They stated a large amount of issues that they would have to adapt to. One example, is agriculture. Warming of planet will put Iran in a place of more droughts and less rain during the spring and fall seasons. One adaptation for this is increasing water management. They need to reduce the amount of water loss, utilize unconventional water resources, and intergrate water tecnologies into water resources. Another adaption mentioned is selection of the appropriate crop. Annual crops in dry lands are to be replaced with perennial crops, such as fruits, nuts and woody trees. Educating citizens about the changing climate and new issues with it is also really important part of this process.

2.) The IPCC adaption section states Asian countries should improvement agricultural infrastructure. They claim countries should prepare by improve pasture water supply, improve irrigation systems and their efficiency, improve use/store of rain and snow water, improve information exchange system on new technologies at national as well as regional and international level, and more. It is important for Iran itself to full-fill these obligations just because the country is already in desert like conditions. So water supplies are already scarce.

3.) On August 22th, 2005, Iran signed onto the  Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations. Iran was not required to reduce emissions but were encouraged to do so. There is no information weather they actually achieved reducing their emissions.

 4.) Iran has plans to mitigate climate change. Some examples from the UNFCCC include 30% emission reduction by 2025, increase the energy efficiency of end-use sectors (demand side) at the rate of 2% per year until 2025, increase of the share of renewable and low-carbon electricity production industries in total electricity generation of the country, and many more scenarios. They want to increase hydro power,  wind production, and funny enough nuclear production. For Iran to reach these goals, it is sated that they will need help from the international UNFCCC community. The government will also be doing some subsidies to help with the process. According to a popular science article, more people are concerned with climate change than people in the U.S. Iran has a 80% population concern while there is only a 70% concern in the United States. There is a disclaimer that it was a small population sampled, but still interesting to learn about.








5.) I personally believe that Iran should adapt to climate change. They have, geographically, high elevation throughout the country except near the Caspian Sea. So sea level rise wont impact them that much. They also already live in a desert region so water is already scarce most of the year. They should use technologies to make water distribution  and gathering water more effective.