Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Climate adaptation relates is the process of adjusting in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate hazards, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. Climate change adaptation is closely related to disaster risk management as they both aim to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to disasters. Climate change as a risk driver refers to how changes in the global climate drive extreme weather events and disaster risk.


Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

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The Adaptation Fund Board has approved the Green, Resilient, and Adaptive CHT Economy (GRACE) project, a significant step forward in climate adaptation in Bangladesh.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
United Nations Capital Development Fund
Cover and source: International Institute for Environment and Development
Documents and publications

This report explores the critical shifts in governance, policy and action that are needed to address the growing challenges, exacerbated by climate change, that are faced by informal settlement residents.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Pump-jack mining crude oil with the sunset
Research briefs

A new study provides a tool for potentially recouping the costs of extreme weather amplified by climate change. It offers a scientific framework that can be used to trace specific climate damages back to emissions from individual fossil fuel companies.

Dartmouth College
A floating farm in Bangladesh to protect against floods
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A vast area of Bangladesh is below mean sea level, making it vulnerable to high tides. Flooding reduces crop production and increases food insecurity. The cultivation of floating beds known as baira allows communities to adapt to these impacts.

Onewater
A rickshaw puller wearing an umbrella and a mask in the scorching heat of the summer sun.
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Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing. Learn about the increasing risk of fungal infections and how to tackle the threat.

Wellcome Trust
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Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

Grist Magazine
Truck carrying hay on a road covered with water after a flood. Altai, Mongolia.
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An initiative of the Asian Development Bank emphasized small grants for 28 local civil society organizations to support local adaptation initiatives and build climate resilience, yielding remarkable results.

Onewater
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Seven European cities and partners have worked intensively together for the past three and a half years in the EU project REACHOUT. The goal was to develop climate services that truly connect to real-world practice in cities.

Deltares
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