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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Greetings from USAID Mekong ARCC!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>The USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project has finalized the Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study for the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>This Climate Study, undertaken by a team of more than 20 international and national scientists and researchers and peer reviewed by experts from globally respected research organizations, details anticipated changes to the climate regime of the LMB and how these will impact key livelihood sectors, including agriculture, capture fisheries and aquaculture, livestock, and natural systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>A clear finding of this Climate Study is that the LMB will see more extremes – wetter wet seasons, drier dry seasons, higher temperatures, more frequent and extreme flood events – and that these changes will put pressure on traditional agricultural and natural systems in the basin, rendering unsuitable land one thought ideal for certain crops and shifting traditional ecosystems upland. The study identified priority provinces throughout the LMB that will see the greatest shift in temperature or rainfall or an increase in salinity. The next phase of the project will focus on supporting vulnerable communities in many of these provinces adapt to the impacts of climate change by incorporating scientific findings from the Climate Study into community planning, and testing resilience strengthening livelihood techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>You can download climate study reports and documents from the USAID Mekong ARCC Website:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Main Report</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://bit.ly/1iK81Sr">http://bit.ly/1iK81Sr</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Summary Report: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://bit.ly/1g1T5hX">http://bit.ly/1g1T5hX</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Report Headlines:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://bit.ly/1lEISND">http://bit.ly/1lEISND</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Agriculture Sector Vulnerability report: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://bit.ly/1h7fqOg">http://bit.ly/1h7fqOg</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Fisheries Sector Vulnerability report: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://bit.ly/MHwJY9">http://bit.ly/MHwJY9</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Livestock Sector Vulnerability report: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://bit.ly/1crS3r0">http://bit.ly/1crS3r0</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Priority Province Summaries:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://mekongarcc.net/resource/priority-province-summaries">http://mekongarcc.net/resource/priority-province-summaries</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Further information, please visit:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helv","sans-serif";color:teal'>USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helv","sans-serif";color:teal'> <b>(USAID Mekong ARCC)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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