This issue features the relationship between adaptation and REDD+, drawing attention to how forests can increase the resilience of communities to impending climate change impacts and how REDD+ can help or hinder this process. The bulletin illustrates climate change impacts on forest distribution and species...

The Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) Programme is run by a partnership of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to promote EbA as a fruitful adaptation measure. The Germany’s Federal Ministry...

This video shows the efforts of Watershed Organisation Trust (WoTR) to address climate impacts affecting rural life in India. It introduces various integrative tools and approaches for adaptation adopted in 53 semi-arid villages of three states in India that WoTR’s climate change adaptation project targets

This short video tells the story of how an Indian city, Gorakhpur, grapples with the dual impacts of urbanization and climate change and what efforts local stakeholders have made to render Gorakhpur climate resilient. It depicts multi-stakeholder engagements through which the climate resilient strategy of...

This study assesses ADB’s response to disasters from two broad categories of disaster-related operations—disaster prevention and disaster recovery. The study reports that if only the projects focused predominantly on disaster prevention are taken into account, the share of disaster-related investment is one-third, compared with two-thirds...

This report offers an approach and ideas for reflection, inviting readers to consider ways to ensure that actions required to strengthen resilience are actually taken. The report helps equip investors in the public sphere, namely governments and their development partners, with a framework and ideas...

This briefing paper summarises major issues discussed, outcomes achieved, and recommendations made at the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum side event ‘Building the Ecological Foundation of Food Security’, which was held on February 20. Speakers at the event stressed on harnessing ecosystem services to...

This handbook produced by the United Nations Development Programme’s Africa Adaptation Programme aims to build the capacity of climate change adaptation programmes and project teams. It recommends seven iterative steps for the capitalization and knowledge generation process, namely planning; identification; description of/reflection upon experiences; analysis...

This article examines the extent to which ecosystem services have been considered in the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) and the proposed adaptation projects. It indicates that the importance of ecosystem services is recognized in more than 50 percent of the NAPAs and that...

This article assesses the scientific literature related to ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) with forests and trees, and highlights five cases in which these can support adaptation. The article argues for a need to better understand the efficiency, costs, and benefits, and trade-offs of EBA with forests...