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

Climate adaptation relates to 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.

Climate disasters are intensifying, threatening lives, livelihoods, and entire economies.
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Becoming a climate champion – UN CC:e-Learn course
The e-course strives to empower you to put in place or ramp up your climate initiatives by enhancing your skills in five key areas: leadership, project management, resource mobilization, leave no one behind and communications.
  • weADAPT
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The impact of climate change on education outcomes: a systematic review

The review explores the direct and indirect effects of climate change on children's learning, the mechanisms driving these impacts, and the interventions that can build resilience at individual, community, and system levels.

ODI Global
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The credit channel of acute vs chronic climate change-related risk

This working paper (No. 1048) investigates how banks adjust credit supply in response to temperature-related climate risk, using a firm-bank level panel of French single-establishment micro and SME firms from 2010 to 20

Banque de France
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Climate action for health: a policy guide for co-benefits in the Western Pacific Region

This evidence-based policy guide highlights how well-designed climate actions across key sectors, including transport, energy, food systems, urban development and water, can deliver substantial and immediate health co-benefits.

World Health Organization (WHO)
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Mental images of global warming in the Indian mind

Global warming is increasingly shaping daily life in India through extreme heat, changing rainfall patterns, floods, and droughts. But public understanding of “global warming” is not uniform.

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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Super typhoon Bavi intensifies over climate-fueled ocean heat as marine heat waves grip every major ocean basin

Super Typhoon Bavi underwent extreme rapid intensification over exceptionally warm waters in the Pacific Ocean that were made up to 80 times more likely by climate change.

Climate Central
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Vertical integration: Bridging national and local climate adaptation in Indonesia, Brazil and India

This working paper examines how the vertical integration of climate change adaptation can be strengthened, using Indonesia, Brazil and India as comparative case studies.

World Resources Institute
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Handbook for Financial Institutions: Climate Adaptation Finance
To support Financial Institutions globally, GCA developed the Handbook on Climate Adaptation Finance, a practical resource designed to help them integrate climate adaptation into their strategies, operations, and financing activities.
  • Global Center on Adaptation
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