Climate Change

is one of the greatest
challenges of our time.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. People and states worldwide are already affected by its destructive impacts. Especially developing countries are vulnerable to global warming and its consequences. Adaptation to climate change is a strategy with the ultimate goal of avoiding harm and costs that can arise from doing business as usual without taking climate change into consideration.

The Paris Agreement underlines the importance of adaptation and anchors the need for it in the international agenda. With the adoption of the Paris Agreement, its global goal on adaptation has been set as an indispensable component of climate action equal to mitigation.

adaptationcommunity.net was developed for the interested public and adaptation experts to provide information on applying approaches, methods and tools that facilitate the planning and implementation of adaptation action.

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GIZ, UNU-EHS/MCII and the Thai Department of Agriculture successfully launched the project “Enhancing Risk Assessments (ERA) for Improved Country Risk Financing Strategies” in Thailand

A successful kick-off workshop for the ERA project (Enhancing Risk Assessments for Improved Country Risk Financing Strategies) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on May 15-16, 2023. The Department of Agriculture (DOA) and GIZ’s “Agri-Climate Risk Financing” project collaborated to host the event. The workshop introduced the ERA project and the ECA framework, and participants worked together to determine the scope of the risk assessment.

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How soils help adapt to climate change

Soil protection and rehabilitation (SPR) technologies provide several advantages, including benefits for mitigation and adaptation. Two new publications on SPR provide a guide for systematically assessing its adaptation relevance. Additionally, an Excel tool is published to implement the approach.

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10th Sankalp Africa Summit, Kenya – Fireside chat: The Secret to Adaptation Investment

On March 1st and 2nd 2023  the 10th Sankalp Africa Summit took place in Nairobi, Kenya. “The Secret to adaptation investment” was a session curated by GIZ and DFC at the Sankalp Africa Summit. The panel session brought together stakeholders including investors, adaptation & resilience businesses, and intermediary institutions to discuss the experience in promoting the adaptation ecosystem in different capacities.

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Workshop on the AGRICA risk financing component – adaptation and disaster risk financing in Zambia

On February 7th and 8th 2023 a workshop on adaptation and disaster risk financing took place in Lusaka as part of the AGRICA risk financing component. The climate risk analyses for adaptation planning in sub-Saharan Africa (AGRICA) project aims at providing scientific evidence on climate risks in the agricultural and water sector and suggesting suitable adaptation measures.

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