FAO’s work on climate change - Fisheries & aquaculture

This publication presents FAO’s work on climate change and fisheries and aquaculture. It includes examples of FAO’s support to countries so that they are better able to adapt to the impact of climate change in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. It also brings together FAO’s most up-to-date knowledge on climate change, including a portfolio of adaptation tools and measures used to support countries’ climate commitments and action plans.

More in detail, the report examines the impacts of climate change on fishery and aquaculture-reliant communities, showing their regional variability and specifically addressing climate-driven extreme events and disasters. Mitigation and adaptation opportunities are presented, including the FAO’s adaptation toolbox for governments, industries and individual fishers and fish farmers. The climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture approach is introduced, as an approach to address the three key objectives of sustainable food systems, adaptation and mitigation. The last section of the report describes FAO support for member countries and partners in adaptation and mitigation, as well as FAO action areas for adaptation, risk reduction and resilience building in marine capture fisheries, inland capture fisheries and aquaculture at global, regional and national levels, Selected FAO projects and publications are presented.