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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.
Child-based disaster resilience planning at the Global Platform
20 May 2013, AlertNet
'Our message is to please listen to children and their needs for DRR, and include their needs in the next HFA2. This is absolutely doable – and we have found that children often come up with the best and most efficient solutions,' explains Jacobo Ocharan, Head of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Plan International...
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)
- Emergency public health and disasters19-22 May 2013, United States of America (California)
- Professional certificate in strategic climate change adaption20-23 May 2013, United Kingdom (London)
- 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
