Experts met in Seychelles to discuss ecosystem-based adaption. This effort is to contribute to climate change strategies.

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is often referred to as the ‘natural solution to climate change’. This approach recognises that healthy, intact, diverse and well-managed ecosystems provide abundant ecosystem services enabling people and societies to adapt to current climate variability and long-term change.   

Jude Bijoux – a Seychellois marine biologist – said Seychelles, a group 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, is in the process of drafting a Seychelles Climate Change Policy to provide the general framework for climate change adaptation and mitigation. 

“For now, the Seychelles National Climate Change Strategy of 2009 remains the main national document addressing climate change adaptation. The EbA approach is firmly rooted in this strategy through one of its supporting principles, which states that ecosystem-based adaptation needs to be further developed to decrease Seychelles’ vulnerability to climate change’,” said Bijoux.

Seychelles News Agency.
3 May 2019

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The rehabilitated coastline at Anse La Mouche through a 3-year project after it was subjected to degradation and erosion. (Photo: Patrick Joubert)