Organised by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, this webinar is the fourth of a series of webinars for regional climate change adaptation practitioners and policymakers on the important outcomes and themes emerging out of COP 26. The first three webinars focused on Locally-Led Adaptation, Loss...
Speakers during the APAN Webinar, Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages in Asia-Pacific, from science to policy and practice, 22 September 2022, Zoom. Photo: UNEP-APAN Through the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) webinar, “Connecting the dots: climate change and biodiversity interlinkages...
Speakers during APAN Webinar on Understanding loss and damage in the Asia and Pacific: science, policy, and mechanisms to avert, minimize, and address impacts held last 21 July 2022 via Zoom. The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) tackled loss and damage through the webinar,...
About 380,000 rural households in six Chinese provinces are benefiting from a project that helps build sustainable and climate-smart agriculture. The project is funded by the World Bank and the Government of China, with additional technical expertise from the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization...
In the next few decades, climate change in China will add pressure onto water resources, already under intense stress. China’s successful investments in water-related infrastructure have helped mitigate climate variability and strengthen water, food and energy security; but the country’s water supplies are now dwindling...
China is experiencing noticeable changes in its climate. Annual average air temperature has risen by 0.5-0.8℃, slightly higher than the average global temperature increase (0.74℃), and most of these changes have been observed over the past 50 years. In the southern China province of Guangdong,...
Most climate science is done for climate scientists. Designed and presented with the needs of the research community in mind, projects often fall short of providing the information needed by policymakers. The science-centred approach has built an invaluable global knowledge base about past, present, and...
For government planners and other decision-makers, model simulations of future climate change pose a dilemma. Climate projections are consistent and unambiguous about coming stresses and the need to take adaptive action — but often do not provide enough detail to allow them to work out...
Climate change poses a serious risk to global food security and agriculture. Nowhere is this issue more pressing than in China, as identified in China's First National Communication to the UNFCCC, published in 2004 (presented at COP 10, NDRC, 2004). Climate change impacts research has...
This Resource Manual reviews the approach, methods and lessons from the first phase of the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project. ACCC brings together Chinese policy makers, research and policy institutions, as well as international organisations and experts, to develop practical approaches to...