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.
“The fundamental way towards ensuring that our countries are prepared to effectively support citizens and residents of neighbouring countries in distress is through developing effective programmes to support frontline agencies”,
The Global Project Mainstreaming EbA recently published a new report on gender-responsive EbA, which is now available online. On July 22, 2021, IISD and the Global Project Mainstreaming EbA furthermore hosted a joint online session on gender-responsive EbA, which you can watch on adaptationcommunity.net.
After a successful 7th EbA Knowledge Day on May 26 2021, for the second time in a virtual format, IUCN and the GIZ Global Project Mainstreaming EbA are happy to share its documentation with you.
This report from the publication series ‘Green Recovery for Practitioners’ presents a compilation of 23 examples that show how communities, cities and countries have implemented the idea of a green recovery. Covering a wide range of sectors, entry levels and approaches, it draws upon measures and instruments that have been deployed in more than 20 countries, particularly in developing and emerging economies. Each example reflects on the actors involved, the progress made and the lessons learned so far.
While we are all experiencing the impact of COVID-19 on our personal and professional lives, the pandemic has also caused, and continues to inflict, significant economic contraction in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Member States (MS), including temporary but often extended, closure of borders.
The 7th EbA Knowledge Day will be held in a virtual format on Wednesday, May 26th, 2021 15:00-19:00 CEST.
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