Fiji and many of the Pacific Island Countries are likely to experience increases in the frequency and height of storm surges as well as other extreme events due to current and projected climate change risks and climate variability. The Nadi River Basin, located in the western division of...

Climate change is a reality, although its specific impacts in various parts of the world are unknown. In addition to the long-term effort of curbing greenhouse gas emissions, it will be essential to be prepared for shorter-term changes. Adaptation to climate change will be a major challenge...

The Mekong River Commission

This booklet provides a summary of the preliminary impact assessment of climate change and development on Mekong flow regimes and recommendations to improve the assessment of these impacts. The results of two global emission scenarios (A2 and B2, IPCC 2000) were downscaled to the regional level covering...

How much warming is likely to occur over the next century? More importantly, how much can the Earth system tolerate before critical thresholds are crossed and widespread, abrupt and/or irreversible consequences affect the global climate, environment, and human societies? A number of international assessments point to a threshold...

  Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) integrates the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy to help people adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. It includes the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to provide services that help people adapt to both current climate variability, and climate change....

This three-part series authored by award-winningscience journalist John Carey and commissioned bythe Pew Center on Global Climate Change, reportson the link between extreme weather and climatechange. The series details the impacts of extremeweather events, the science behind extreme weather and global warming, and the risks andhow...

This paper is a product of the Transport, Energy& Urban Sustainable Development Unit, East Asiaand Pacific Region and addresses the increasinglyimportant issue of urban flooding. Disaster statisticsappear to show that floods are becoming morefrequent, with medium-scale flooding increasingfastest. The impact of this is driven by...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of the impacts of recurring droughts on indigenous communities in semi-arid districts of western India. It examines the root causes of drought in this region, indigenous peoples’ perceptions of drought-related vulnerabilities in relation to climate change and relevant action...

The International Water Management Institute(IWMI), a member of the Consultative Group onInternational Agricultural Research (CGIAR), hasreleased a brief examining water management in SriLanka and identifying climate change as a possibleexacerbating factor. The paper relates that demandfor water may outstrip supply in the Dry Zone of Sri...