instead they cover a range of geographies and types of intervention from climate risk reduction in ethiopia to financing of a field station in a costa rican national park the objective expressed in austria s fifth national communication to the unfccc is to use development assistance to target the root causes of vulnerability to the effects of climate change these efforts focus on poverty alleviation conflict prevention and improving the management of natural resources this mainstreaming process is intended to ensure that nonadaptationrelated funding nonetheless contributes to reductions in vulnerability