adaptation strategies
The Africa Adaptation Knowledge Network (AAKNet) is pleased to present the second Issue of the Africa Adaptation Newsletter. This newsletter offers a comprehensive overview of the latest adaptation practices, policy issues, amongst many in Africa and beyond.
We will be happy to spotlight your Climate Change Adaptation activities, announcements, events, new...
This webinar took place on Friday February 15 as a warm-up towards the Climate Change M&E panel discussions at the South Asian Evaluation Conclave 2013 taking place in Kathmandu February 26 – March 1, this webinar...
Climate change impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region are particularly severe owing to the large amount of the population depending on climate-sensitive livelihoods such as agriculture. This publication is a result of ICIMOD’s collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and national partners in...
<p>Impacts of climate change will have a disproportional negative impact on developing countries (Stern 2007, IPCC 2007). Climate change will exacerbate problems related rapid population growth, existing poverty and a heavy reliance on agriculture and the environment. Developing countries have a much more limited capacity to cope with the problems caused by climate change. This...
In many countries, governments are seeking advice from a wide range of disciplines on the potential impacts of climate change on the environment and their society and economy. This handbook is designed to help those conducting research supporting such advice. Underlying the research are two fundamental questions: “What does climate change mean to us?” and “What might be...
Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some have greater capacity than...
CARE is implementing Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects that target the world's most vulnerable populations and integrating climate change into our ongoing development work. This working brief summarises CARE's two-track approach to adaptation and explains why we thing both are...
<p>We must mitigate and adapt to climate change. On this, the international community is agreed. But exactly how to do that is still up for debate. There were high hopes that last year’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen would deliver a legally binding agreement for action on climate change. But the outcome — the Copenhagen Accord — was instead a political...
This publication synthesizes information on IUCN's work in this domain, particularly highlighting programmatic work in projects at local and national level, implemented by IUCN's Global thematic and Regional Programmes and Commissions. It serves as an introductory "where we are at" on climate change response in some areas of our work.
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, believes that protected areas lie at the heart of all effective biodiversity conservation strategies. They offer much more as well: clean water, food security, health and wealth; protection against natural disasters; carbon sequestration; recreational opportunities; sacred natural sites; homes and employment.
The Programme of...
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