Publications

30 June 2016

Climate Change Policy Brief on (I)NDC adaptation components and NAP

Taking into account that most INDCs include adaptation components, the question of how they are linked to the NAP process, and to existing adaptation strategies and planning documents becomes pressing. GIZ’ Climate Policy Support...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

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

30 June 2016

Community forestry-based climate change adaptation: a practitioner’s brief

In 2014, the USAID Climate Change Adaptation Project Preparation Facility for Asia and the Pacific (USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific) teamed up with RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests to establish a demonstration site in the Bish...

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

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

Nepal

13 June 2016

Business case for the Bangladeshi private sector to invest in climate change and access international climate finance

A new paper by Acclimatise, IIED and ICCCAD with support from CDKN finds that the private sector in Bangladesh is beginning to recognize that climate change presents a number of significant opportunities. Although several challeng...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

Bangladesh

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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

30 April 2016

Lessons from Implementing Adaptation Plans in the Lower Mekong Basin

After two-year effort to strengthen community adaptation capacity to the negative impacts of climate change, USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (USAID Mekong ARCC) project engaged World Resources Institute Vu...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

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11 March 2016

6 Things to Know about Urban Adaptation

One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supports the region is by designing and implementing standalone capacity building programs targeted specifically at government officials. Responding to regional capacity building needs, inc...

THEMES : Urban Areas and Infrastructure

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

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31 January 2016

Analyzing the Economic Costs and Benefits of CCA Options

The fourth publication in the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Adaptation Finance Knowledge Series presents the methodology used in the Pacific Cost-Benefit Analysis Initiative (P-CBA) training workshops, accompanied by examples from the...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

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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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30 November 2015

The Adaptation Finance Gap Update

In 2014 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its first global Adaptation Gap Report (AGR 2014) (UNEP, 2014), which put forward a preliminary framework for assessing adaptation gaps along with an initial assess...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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