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Strengthening IFAD’s capacity to mainstream climate change adaptation in its operations, comprehensive report, final version:

This study explores ways to build in-house capacity on climate change issues and effectively mainstream adaptation to climate

This paper gives an insight into the World Food Programme's work in addressing weather-related hunger by helping communities prepare for and recover from major climate- and weather-related natural disasters, especially those that are already vulnerable

Fact sheet n°266:

This fact sheet includes sections on: (i) climate change general facts; (ii) the impact of climate change on health; (iii) extreme heat; (iv) natural disasters and variable rainfall patterns, including sea level rise, extreme weather

Water and climate change adaptation, 9:

This perspective document focuses on the arid and semi-arid regions of the world and intends to provide input to address adaptation to the consequences of climate variability and change in the short and long term

Water and climate change adaptation, 11:

This perspective document discusses the economic and financial issues of adaptation to climate change in the water sector. It inventories and analyses the (inter)national adaptation funding instruments presently

This pocket-sized book aims to inform and stimulate discussion at the family and community level in regard of the human consequences of climate change. It provides information on fundamental subjects like the difference between climate and weather, how

Sen Lam of Radio Australia interviewed Saroj Kumar Jha, programme manager for the UN-affiliated Global Facility for Disaster Reduction & Recovery disaster, on preparedness for natural hazards and disaster risk reduction efforts worldwide, and in Chile and Bangladesh...

Global environmental change, volume 20, issue 1, February 2010, pages 177-191, Adaptive capacity to global change in Latin America, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.10.008:

This paper identifies and examines how policy intervention can help Canada's Inuit