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Climate Change
Strengthening the integration between adaptation to climate change and disaster reduction into policy, capacity-building, and sustainable development programme-design
Rwanda: 'Doing well' with climate change adaptation
1 Sep 2010, Legalbrief Today
An official of the Climatic Change and Development-Adaptation by Reducing Vulnerability (CC-DARE) programme has commended Rwanda's efforts to remove barriers and create opportunities for integrating climate change adaptation into national development planning and decision-making frameworks...
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
- 9th International NCCR summer school, adaptation and mitigation: responses to climate change29 Aug - 03 Sep 2010, Switzerland (Grindelwald)
- Community-centered adaptation to climate change: Four online courses (beginning September 2010)31 Aug - 25 Oct 2010
- Community-based adaptation to climate change: Online four module course31 Aug 2010 - 02 May 2011
- MSc in environmental managementSOAS
- Masters & post graduate diploma in climate change & sustainable developmentCEPT, India (Ahmedabad)
- I Diplomado en Gestión del Riesgo y Adaptación al Cambio ClimáticoUNMSM, Peru (Lima)
- Children and disaster risk reduction: taking stock and moving forward2009, UNICEF
- Living with disasters and changing climate: children in Southeast Asia telling their stories about disaster and climate change2010, Save the Children Sweden
- Vulnerability and impact assessment for adaptation to climate change: IEA training manual volume two2010, IISD; UNEP; UNITAR
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Climate change vulnerability map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Multiple climate hazard map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Adaptive capacity map of Southeast Asia in 2005Jan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Consultants: Climate change; water, sanitation & environment; livelihoods, disaster risk reduction & natural resource managementVarious, Practical Action
- Consultant (Disaster risk reduction expert)Kenya (Addis Ababa), UNISDR
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- 3R initiative: Be buffered
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- 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
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- Training material: climate change vulnerability & adaptation (C3D project)
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- UNFCCC: adaptation to climate change
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- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
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- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
- WRI: Vulnerability & adaptation database
Officially declared national coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary mechanisms for advocacy, coordination, analysis and advice on disaster risk reduction.