South Asia is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of fragile ecosystems, potential for glacial melt, low-lying land areas, and large poor and remote village populations. Many communities have already experienced problems due to climate change such as Glacial Lake Outburst...

  The sub-regional annual conference held in Marawila, Sri Lanka focused on key issues of linking different stakeholders, focusing on better understanding the concept of loss and damage which is developing to be a key area of focus in the UNFCCC process, and also understanding...

This report is a case study which outlines current activities being undertaken in the region on adaptation. The report includes basic outlines of national priorities activities implemented or planned in response, challenges and constraints, and successes and lessons learned. The purpose of this report is...

  The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Climate Change Division held its second Pacific Climate Change Portal Training Workshop for the Northern Pacific from the 19th to the 21st of February 2013 at the West Pacific Tuna Commission, Annex Building in Kolonia,...

On 21 and 22 December 2012 some 120 people gathered to discuss the issue of resilience from the perspective of several fields, including architecture, policy and climate science. The growth of resilience as a touch-point for fields as distant as economics, architecture and population politics...

This cost-benefit analysis is part of the UNEP Ecosystem-based Adaptation Flagship Program and UN-HABITAT Cities and Climate Change Initiative and is intended to guide decision makers in their consideration of various options for climate change adaptation. While the scope of the research and analysis is...

Objectives|This report provides a brief overview of the current available Climate Change adaptation funding sources and how such funding mechanisms can be accessed towards improving State, organizational and local communities’ adaptive capacity.   This report is targeted for: • Practitioners and project implementers from non-government organizations and...

Climate change is a very real problem being faced globally. It is a challenge to address climate change effectively, but parallely this is an opportunity in disguise of a call of the hour. Adaptation capacity that have been embossed in the different tires of the...

This report documents the results of a Workshop on ‘Pacific Climate Change and Finance’ that was held in Apia, Samoa on 28 and 29 October 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) with co-financing from SPC through their GCCA project. The focus of...

  The Research Center for Climate Change Adaptation (RCCCA) of Keio University conducted an educational programme for students including a fieldwork and workshop in the Horqin Sandy Land from 25 August to 3 September 2012. The Horqin Sandy Land, which is placed in Inner Mongolia...