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Climate Change
Adaptation: The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
GPDRR: Ensuring clear links between discussions on post-2015 frameworks
21 May 2013, AlertNet
The Global Platform is highly important for the international community to agree a strong successor framework that builds on the achievements of the Hyogo Framework for Action, and to ensure clear links between discussions on post-2015 frameworks to enable sustainable development through reduced disaster loss...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.1 [PDF, 104Kb]Disaster risk reduction is an integral objective of environment related policies and plans, including for land use natural resource management and adaptation to climate change
- Global platform for disaster risk reduction 2013: Fourth session19-23 May 2013, Switzerland (Geneva)
- Professional certificate in strategic climate change adaption20-23 May 2013, United Kingdom (London)
- Climate literacy: Navigating climate change conversations20 May - 19 Jul 2013, Online
- Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in disaster risk management and development studiesCDRM&DS, Nigeria (Minna)
- LEAD Europe sustainability leadership programmeLEAD Intl.
- Masters in disaster risk management and development studiesCDRM&DS, Nigeria (Minna)
Manual de ingenieria naturalistica2012, Plan Intl; SNGR, Ecuador - gov; UNDP Ecuador
Disaster management: engineering and environmental aspects2013
Disaster risk reduction: joining the dots2013, VOICE
Disaster response and climate change in the Pacific2013, NCCARF; UTS
The coming flood: Explore the future's rising seasFeb 2013, PIK
Maplecroft: Climate change vulnerability index 2013 – Most at risk citiesNov 2012, Maplecroft
Exposure of the population to natural hazardsAug 2011, UNU-EHS
- Australia: To see with both eyes2013, Monash University
- Thematic debate on disaster risk reduction2012, UNGA; UNISDR NY
- CDKN: In conversation with… Dr. Tom Mitchell, Overseas Development Institute2012, CDKN
- Project officer - DRR/CCA-mainstreaming specialistThailand (Bangkok), ADPC
- Disaster risk management specialistPhilippines (Manila), ADB
External Online Resources
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- Adaptation atlas
- Adaptation Database and Planning Tool (ADAPT)
- Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
- Adaptation Partnership: Review of existing and planned adaptation actions (by region and country)
- Best practices in adapting to climate change: Online professional development community
- Business Link: Climate Resilience Toolkit
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- CAP-NET: IWRM and climate change
- CARE: Community-based adaptation toolkit
- Caribbean Risk Management Initiative
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- Climate and Disaster Governance (CDG)
- Climate change adaptation: topic guide - Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC)
- Climate change and African political stability (CCAPS) program
- Climatefundsupdate.org
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- CSDi: Compilation of 300 hands-on field activities for community based adaptation
- DARA: Climate vulnerability monitor
- DEFRA UK: Understanding adaptation
- Dialogue on climate change adaptation for land and water managment
- Disaster risk and climate change (UN/ISDR)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Earth journalism toolkit
- East Asia and Pacific: A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening DRM
- Eclipse Africa
- Eldis: community-based adaptation exchange
- European climate adaptation platform CLIMATE-ADAPT
- FAO: Climate and flood forecast applications in agriculture
- FAO: Climate change and risk management
- FAO: Climate impact on agriculture (CLIMPAG)
- Gateway to the UN System's work on climate change: understanding adaptation
- gendercc - women for climate justice platform for information, knowledge and networking
- Globalislands.net special report: disappearing islands
- IAVS: plate-forme de ressources sur les changements climatiques en Afrique (in French)
- IMCORE: initiatives to manage coastal risks linked to climate change
- India Environmental Portal: Climate change and natural disasters
- Integrated Risk Governance Project
- IRI: Climate Predictability Tool (CPT)
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- Knowledge network on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- NICCD blog: Notes on ICTs, climate change and development
- Norway's guide to climate change adaptation
- OIKOS, capacitación para la sostenibilidad
- PACC-Oasis - Projet adaptation au changement climatique au Maroc pour des Oasis résilientes
- Regional climate outlooks
- ReliefWeb: humanitarian implications of climate change
- Special report: managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (IPCC)
- TckTckTck: A global alliance of actors calling for a fair climate change deal
- The Cancun Agreements: Adapting to the impacts of climate change (UNFCCC)
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- The Norwegian Climate Adaptation Programme
- Training material: climate change vulnerability & adaptation (C3D project)
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UKCIP Adaptation Wizard
- UNDP: Community-based adaptation
- UNFCCC: Adaptation Private Sector Initiative (PSI)
- UNFCCC: adaptation to climate change
- UNFCCC: National communications Annex I
- UNFCCC: Non-Annex I national communications
- US Environmental Protection Agency: Climate change impacts and adapting to change (by sector)
- Voice of South climate change blog, Bangladesh
- Weatherathome
- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
- WHO and UNEP: Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI), climate change risk for policymakers
- WHO: Health and climate change
- WikiADAPT
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
- WRI: Vulnerability & adaptation database
