This report aims to demonstrate how a rapid climate change impact assessment can be used to identify the possible impacts of climate change on a thermal power investment project.  

This review is a comprehensive literature synthesis of climate change and human adaptation, which seeks to validate the scientific basis of current development efforts focused on the dynamics of human behavior and choices as affected by or in response to climate change. More importantly, it...

This article highlights that in order to preserve the environment and adapt to climate change, alliances must be made with communities of local people with a view to educating, rather than dictating to them.  

The Agriculture and Development Notes – Climate Change Adaptation (ADN-CCA) Series showcases climate change adaptation efforts and mechanisms in Southeast Asian countries in agriculture and rural development. ADN CCA aims to highlight research findings, good practices and lessons learned in climate change adaptation focused on...

This publication is an essential guide developed by the Strengthening Climate Resilience consortium, as a step-by-step guide to using and applying the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach. It calls for more coordinated planning and action in disaster risk management. It concludes by sharing...

The scoping assessment on adaptation to climate change in the Philippines was conducted in March 2012. This assessment draws on work in progress by the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia, also known as Adaptation Knowledge Platform (AKP), to disseminate and exchange knowledge...

Prachi Seth from the Overseas Development Institute examines what is meant by the term ‘green economy’, and what lessons we can learn from past experiences to ensure market mechanisms work to support the most vulnerable.  

This paper provides four examples from three continents of women’s use of local knowledge in climate change adaptation. It aims to show that the local knowledge held by women is valuable and useful for the adaptation of smallholder agriculture to climate change. 

A four-month trek along the Great Himalaya Trail in Nepal, led by the world record holding mountaineer Apa Sherpa and in partnership with the Government of Nepal, is raising awareness of climate compatible development in this highly vulnerable region. A local journalist, Saroj Dhakal, has...

Wealthy nations have committed to support developing countries to establish National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) that identify long-term priorities for responding to climate change challenges. But how and when will this support be given? Past experience suggests that national adaptation planning in expectation of future international...