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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. 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.

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The impacts associated with slow onset processes (e.g. sea level rise, desertification) and extreme weather events (e.g. floods, cyclones, heatwaves) are increasasing in frequency and intensity, resulting in growing climate-related risks. This highlights the urgent need for Climate Risk Assessments (CRA) which help to identify solutions for an effective management of risks. The CRA-Method Search Engine “CRAMSE” aims to support practitioners in identifying Climate Risk Assessment methods that fit best for their specific interests.

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COP30 delivered two signals that frame the outlook for 2026: first, the political commitment to significantly scale up adaptation finance under the new collective quantified...
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Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, climate adaptation has become a defining element of global climate policy. This shift did not begin...
At COP21 the director, president, president of the COP and the executive secretary of UNFCCC are holding their hands up in celebration on a stage.
Adaptation moved to the forefront at COP30 in Belém, driven by the need to accelerate action and to clarify how progress can be measured. Parties...
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Topics

  • Agroecology aims at transforming agricultural and food systems towards climate resilience and adaptiveness in order to achieve food security for all. 
  • Urban Climate Resilience refers to the ability of an urban system – and its components – to absorb, adapt to, and recover from the various shocks and stresses exacerbated by climate change, while ensuring the well-being of its inhabitants. 
 
  • Private Sector & Adaptation responds to climate-related economical risks and seizes business opportunities in order to safeguard operations, to strategically create sustainable growth and to increase societal resilience. 
  • The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process aims to integrate adaptation into development planning and to reduce vulnerability to climate change. As the primary national planning process for adaptation, it can support the implementation of NDC adaptation goals. 
  • Mainstreaming of Adaptation systemically includes climate risk and adaptation considerations in decision-making and planning processes. 
  • Climate Services (CS) provide decision-makers with customized ready-to-use climate information and products (forecasts or historical trends) to effectively manage climate risk. 

Climate Change and Migration looks at how extreme weather events and gradual changes impact human mobility: migration, (disaster) displacement, as well as planned relocation.  

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) helps keeping track of the implementation of adaptation measures and assessing their effectiveness and outcomes. The Paris Agreement encourages “M&E and learning from adaptation plans, policies, programmes and actions” (Article 7.9d). 

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Esta serie de cartillas guían al lector desde los fundamentos teóricos hasta la aplicación práctica de la Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas (AbE) en el marco del Programa EbA LAC. Las cartillas se enfocan en las medidas aplicadas en el Programa en apicultura, manejo eficiente del agua, manejo forestal sostenible, manejo...
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Madagascar is highly exposed to climate-related shocks, including recurrent cyclones and droughts, which disproportionately affect women due to entrenched social norms, high poverty levels, and limited access to land ownership and financial services. This report, commissioned by the Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions and conducted by Oxford Policy Management,...
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Climate change poses significant risks and impacts that disproportionately affect vulnerable groups, particularly women. While measures such as access to credit, savings tools, and affordable insurance products can help mitigate losses and damages caused by climate-related events, there are stark gender-specific differences in how these risks and impacts are experienced....

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