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Displaying 15 of about 677 resultsThis revised Nationally Determined Contribution highlights the Solomon Islands' greater ambitions for emissions reduction and adaptation. Mitigation and adaptation are inseparable for a low emitting, highly vulnerable and small island developing country. The Solomon Islands takes adaptation as a matter of survival. Short to medium term adaptation priori…
As a leader in climate action and committing to the urgency of the Paris Agreement, Samoa has developed its Second NDC undertaking an inclusive stakeholder engagement process with key national stakeholders, ministries, and departments. Predicted increases in extreme weather conditions from climate change indicates that Samoa will face even greater impac…
The overriding priority of the Government of Nauru is to eradicate poverty and to improve the safety, security, and quality of life of its citizens. To this end, Nauru’s climate action has been aligned with national efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and is fully integrated with Nauru's National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS).…
This Pacific Risk Profile is a snapshot of climate and disaster risk information that is collected from credible open data sources. It is intended to provide Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade program managers and implementing partners with easy access to essential risk information.This profile gives an overview of Vanuatu's geographic and socioeco…
The National Climate Change Policy for Nigeria 2021-2030 assists the country in achieving its goal of meaningfully contributing of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce the socio-economic impacts of adverse effects of climatic change. The medium-term outcome is to achieve a resilient socio-economic environment that promotes sustainable deve…
In this paper, RAND researchers provide a framework for understanding how nation-states are developing policies to respond to climate migration and mobility. They review related policies in six countries: Bangladesh, Kiribati, Kenya, Norway, the United States, and Vanuatu. Each country has different means and faces different climate mobility pressures.…
This paper evaluates why institutions matter in climate finance. International climate funds, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Adaptation Fund, offer a limited but important source of climate finance for LMICs1. While small in scale – three-quarters of climate finance flows are in fact from domestic sources – internation…
The main objective of this research is to understand fishers' perceptions of climate change and to identify factors that influence their expectations concerning adapting to change. Two coastal communities at Salimpur on the Sitakunda coast and Sarikait in Sandwip Island were selected as a case study to analyse fishers’ perceptions of climate change in s…
This issue brings different articles from the field of disaster management. Know Disasters Magazine is committed to making disasters everyone's business by building resilience in the community and creating awareness.
Six years ago, countries were asked to make changes to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius and to try to aim for 1.5 degrees…
This practical guide demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be constructed to increase their resilience to climate change, especially in developing countries where structures are largely self-built. The publication provides an overview of the fundamental types of interventions at the building scale, including the use of nature-based solutio…
This report discusses how Mercy Corps Indonesia, Diponegoro University, and Bogor Agricultural Institute, as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance program, conducted a climate risk and impact assessment of the Kupang River watershed and coastal areas of Pekalongan City and Pekalongan Regency, with the aim to support local governments to understan…
This brief discusses how water-related natural disasters are major obstacles to human well-being and sustainable development. Almost three quarters of all natural disasters between 2001 and 2018 were related to water (UNESCO and UN-Water 2020). Climate change has made extreme weather events more severe by altering their frequency, timing, intensity and…
This study is the first attempt to assess how psychological capital affects climate change adaptation amongst smallholder farmers. Climate change remains one of the world’s critical challenges and a key factor hindering progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector has widely been stud…
These regional guidelines on watershed-scale vulnerability and adaptation assessments (W-VAAs) are the product of a multiyear collaboration among the institutions listed above. The guidelines synthesize the shared knowledge and experience of the roundtable partners in developing frameworks for vulnerability and adaptation assessments (VAAs) and implemen…
This legal study has been developed as a part of the World Bank’s work on ‘Building Resilience in Pacific Atoll Island Countries’ which aims to strengthen the capacity of selected Pacific atoll island countries to cope with the long-term adverse impacts of climate change and boost their resilience. The goal of this work is to contribute to the National…