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Displaying 60 of about 700 resultsThis toolkit is designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects. It proposes some principles and practices based on many decades of experience in the integration of a gender perspective in sustainable development, natural resources management and disaster preparedness.…
This working paper details the key recommendations that emerged from the international conference on ‘Mountain People Adapting to Change: Solutions beyond boundaries bridging science, policy, and practice’, held in Kathmandu from 9 to 12 November 2014. The event sought to find holistic approaches to adaptation that extend beyond political, sectoral, and…
This working paper documents Ethiopia’s lessons from the study ‘Lesson learning from national climate compatible development planning’, which captured and shared institutional experiences of climate compatible development. This publication highlights results from this study in three thematic areas: building a knowledge and evidence base; governance and…
The paper reviews the multiple climate change-urban linkages, disaggregating them into various key components through a generic ‘urban risk framework’. The paper further contextualises this framework in the context of a fast-growing city, Bangalore, in a semi-arid ecosystem to demonstrate the range of risks and vulnerabilities that are bo…
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of weather risk on rural households’ welfare in Tanzania using nationally representative household panel data together with a set of novel weather variation indicators. This document estimates the impact of weather shocks on a rich set of welfare indicators and investigates whether and how they…
This is the progress report by the Glasgow Airport Limited (GLAL) on its climate change adaptations. The report sets out the Airport's progress in adapting to the current and future predicted effects of climate change. For GLAL the most significant climate change risks arise from projected longer term changes to temperature and precipitation e…
This is the progress report by the Northern Lighthouse Board on climate change adaptations. It sets out the progress made in adapting to the current and future predicted effects of climate change on their organisation.
The document identifies impacts and proposed actions for the following business functions (pp. 8-20):
engineering maintenance;
engi…
This brief aims to present initial findings from six countries that yield policy implications relevant to the discussions in the the 2015 Paris Climate Change discussions. The research confirms that some forms of mobility enable people to adapt and should be facilitated, while displacement and planned relocation pose i…
The UNEP Frontiers report highlights emerging issues of global concern and solutions for effective and timely response. Issues reported are ones that emerge as a result of new scientific findings or others that are persistent and for which new approaches and technologies have appeared.
This publication emphasises the critical relationship between…
This publication seeks to enhance the understanding of, and boost resilience to, water stress conditions in drought-prone areas, using the FAO Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS). In order to boost the resilience of livelihoods to threats arising from climate change, and especially drought events, it is primordial to identify drought…
This publication aims to provide guidance for policy makers on how they can adapt to and address climate-related risks in the water, agriculture and natural resource sectors. The report provides an overview of climate change-related risks in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and presents approaches to reduce those climate risks and overcome barriers…
ADB Papers on Indonesia No. 01, August 2015:
This paper explains how drought-affected declines in agricultural production can contribute to higher inflation, increases in poverty, weak exports and adverse effects on political stability, unless El Niño risks are appropriately mitigated. Further, it proposes possible responses to reduce restrictions on fo…
This plan outlines the concept of the Lake Chad as a rural hub for regional development in parallel to the restoration of peace and security. It intends to contribute significantly to food security, employment, and the social inclusion of the youth by improving, in a sustainable way, the living conditions of populations settled on the Lake’s banks and i…
This working paper draws on alternative approaches to innovation to present the concept of ‘autonomous innovation’ as an important process for enhancing resilience to a range of shocks and stresses, including climate change.
The world is facing a growing number of natural, technological, economic, social and political shocks and stresses. But the people…
This guide aims to provide practical guidance for people designing and implementing programmes that aim to increase the resilience throughout the Asia region.
The structure of the guide follows the basic sequence of project (or programme) cycle management: creating a vision, project design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. The guide is str…