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Displaying 15 of about 432 resultsThis policy brief synthesizes the key findings of the Climate Vulnerability Assessment on the Filipino Deaf community conducted under Project SIGND, highlighting challenges faced by the Deaf in the context of climate change including those relating to accessibility, education, health, and livelihood. The brief presents policy recommendations to address…
This paper examines how climate change impacts affect people in different ways, with some members of society finding it more demanding to adapt to changing climate conditions. Managing climate change adaptation and transition to a climate-resilient society in a just and inclusive manner requires an awareness about which conditions could generate injusti…
The study captures the tryst of the Dalit and Adivasi communities that bear the brunt of historical descent/caste-based oppression, inequalities and discrimination with recurring droughts in the region. As climate change intensifies, the Dalits (or the Scheduled Castes) and Adivasis (or the Scheduled Tribes) with their women, children, ag…
With 70% of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is highly exposed to riverine and coastal flooding.
This paper conducts a “stress-test” and examines the exposure of the population and poor people in particular to current and future flooding in Vietnam and specifically in Ho Chi Minh City. It develops new high-resol…
This brief publication highlights the 'not-so-natural' human socio-economic factors that are contributing to excess mortality and morbidity rates in the US within the context of hurricanes, storm surge and flooding.
The document calls for urgent action, reinforcement of the health system, basic infrastructure and building codes in order to reduc…
This brief provides an overview of social protection programmes in the context of disaster risk management and adaptive capacity in Nepal. The country has a large portfolio of social protection programs, which, however, are not yet adaptive. The programs are mostly categorical in nature and not designed to build resilience of the poor and vulnerabl…
With an impressive development progress over the past two decades, the countries of the Europe and Central Asia region (ECA) are primed for significant economic and social growth. Climate change, however, threatens to undermine decades of development gains and put at risk efforts to eradicate poverty. Tackling climate change must be central to efforts t…
This index reviews the readiness of 86 countries to ‘leave no one behind’, monitoring the extent to which government systems are set up and ready to meet their leave no one behind commitment. It covers all the countries that are presenting Voluntary National Reviews at the 2018 High-level Political Forum as well as those that presented la…
The private sector is an essential partner in reducing the impacts of climate change and extreme-weather events on vulnerable people. This paper argues for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (“the Movement”) to reimagine its engagement with the private sector in addressing the humanitarian consequences of climate change.
The paper also identifies…
By 2050, 3.2 million people in urban areas could be at risk from pluvial flooding, an increase of 1.2 million from 2015. It is, thus, imperative to understand existing coping strategies because such strategies play critical roles in developing adaptation strategies to climate change. Current studies demonstrate the role of indigenous knowledge (IK)—gath…
This year’s annual report highlights the major actions undertaken by the Partnership in 2019 and features selected examples of the work of our more than 70 members from G20 and V20 nations, civil society, international organizations, the private sector, and academia. The Partnership has formulated Vision 2025 as a collaborative global ambition for Clima…
Cities and the communities who live in them are significantly impacted by climate shifts in both means and extremes. These are already affecting the New York metropolitan region and will increasingly do so in the coming decades. This New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report (NPCC3) provides co‐generated tools and methods for implementing r…
This study identifies utilized and unutilized windows of opportunity for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) education within the present Vanuatu primary curriculum and the potential for DRR and CCA learning in the soon-to-be-launched reformed primary curriculum. The present state of the art of disaster-related pedagogy in…
The Law on natural disaster prevention and control (the Law) was passed in June 2013 and took effect on May 1, 2014. The 47-article Law provides for disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, from national to local and community levels. The Law outlines natural disaster prevention and control activities, including a nati…
This report seeks to address a major research gap by adopting an intersectionality approach to better understand the different climate risks, vulnerabilities, adaptation and resilience among people of different ages and different genders. In particular, this report aims to shed light on the specific climate change challenges faced by young women and gir…