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Climate change is a huge challenge for
the agriculture and rural development (ARD) sector in
Romania. On the one hand, agriculture is a source of
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and must therefore be
expected to contribute towards the climate change mitigation
goals of the Europe 2020 strategy. European farmers,
foresters, rural businesses, and other local people
therefore need to start paying much greater attention to
climate change and the growing uncertainty that it will
bring to their day-to-day lives and longer term strategies
for production, management, investment, and community
development. This report is one of six rapid sectoral
analyses undertaken within the framework of component B of
the World Bank's Romania climate change Reimbursable
Advisory Service (RAS) Program. The title of component B is
"identify and integrate climate actions into the
2014-2020 sector operational programs". The specific
objective of this report is to contribute to the successful
mainstreaming of climate action into Romania's
post-2013 rural development policy - namely the European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) co-financed
National Rural Development Program (NRDP) for Romania
2014-2020. This report builds upon a number of working
documents produced by the European commission on the theme
of mainstreaming climate change in 2014-2020 rural
development policy. The report contains 6 main sections: an
introduction to the characteristics of the ARD sector in
Romania.; an overview of the vulnerabilities and risks from
climate change in the ARD sector in Romania, beginning with
an introduction to the changes in baseline climate that are
currently observed and predicted; a brief review of existing
national strategies, policies, and initiatives of relevance
to the ARD sector in Romania, including a description of the
EAFRD measures related to climate action that were included
in the NRDP for Romania 2007-2013;the identification and
description of priorities for climate change mitigation and
adaptation in the ARD sector in Romania; an introduction to
the opportunities for mainstreaming climate actions in the
forthcoming NRDP for Romania for 2014-2020, including a
basic intervention logic (the foundation of all strategic
programming for the EAFRD) and some examples of specific
climate actions that can be supported by the EAFRD; a
closing section highlighting the uncertainties regarding the
findings of this rapid sectoral analysis and the need for
further work.
