Publications

16 February 2017

Innovative Financing for the Adaptation Fund: Pathways and Potentials

This new report explores the potential of seven innovative climate finance options to meet the financing needs of the Adaptation Fund. It concludes that if implemented in a collective manner, these can provide a steady and predict...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

15 February 2017

Summary of Adaptation Measures in the Nationally Determined Contributions of selected Asia-Pacific Countries

The international commitments in response to climate change have been made globally, particularly at COP21 in Paris in December 2015 and at COP22 in Marrakech in November 2016. All parties are required to submit their Nationally D...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

15 February 2017

Summary of APAN Capacity Building Activities, 2010-2015

In support of APAN’s broad mission to “build climate change resilient and sustainable human systems, ecosystems and economies” in Asia-Pacific, the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) has provided significa...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

30 January 2017

Climate finance in the Pacific: An overview of flows to the region’s Small Island Developing States

This working paper presents an analysis of climate finance flows to Pacific Island states in 2010–2014, collectively and by country, as well as more recent data on flows from multilateral climate funds. The Small Island Developing...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Pacific

08 November 2016

Role of various sectors in demonstrating resilience during Chennai flood 2015

History repeated itself in the city of Chennai on November- December 2015, when the devastating flood claimed more than 470 lives and resulted in enormous economic loss. The city and its suburb recorded several days between Novemb...

THEMES : Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

India

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31 July 2016

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Report: Developing a Demonstration Site in Nepal on Community Forestry, Gender and Climate Change Adaptation

The Asia-Pacific region has some of the highest absolute numbers of people dependent on forests for significant portions of their livelihoods, and also stands to suffer some of the greatest expected economic and loss of human life...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation / Forecast and Assessment / Gender and Social Impacts / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

05 July 2016

LEGACY REPORT: Planning and Implementing Rural Adaptation Initiatives in the Lower Mekong

USAID Mekong ARCC worked with implementing partners to identify the environmental, economic, and social effects of climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), and to assist highly exposed and vulnerable rural populations in ec...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Communication and Awareness

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

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30 June 2016

Action for Mountain Adaptation: Solutions beyond the Boundaries of Science, Policy, and Practice

Around 90 per cent of almost a billion mountain people in the world today live in developing and transitioning countries, such as those in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region. Many live in poverty, and a third of mountain dwelle...

THEMES : Mountainous Regions

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Central Asia

10 May 2016

2016 Adaptation Gap Report

UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report series focuses on Finance, Technology and Knowledge gaps in climate change adaptation. It compliments the Emissions Gap Report series, and explores the implications of failing to close the emissions ga...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

05 December 2015

The 10th Exchange Series “Effective Capacity Building for Accessing Climate Finance” E-Discussion Report

Participants, including government officials and climate finance experts, of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supported 10th Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) Exchange Series agreed that countries need to build up their skills to...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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