This document is intended as a resource to be used when familiarizing staff of the World Bank about the evolving climate change agenda, covering the issues of science, impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and more broadly the policy agenda. It is based on a targetted analysis of a study,...

  World Resources 2010–2011 is a joint publication of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank, and the World Resources Institute. It focuses on how national governments, particularly those of developing countries, can make effective decisions in a changing climate. The ways...

The work presented in this PhD thesis has not been carried out within a single, well-defined project. Instead, it integrates the results of a number of studies conducted from 1994 onwards, each of which had different clients and objectives. The common theme of the studies...

Climate change impacts upon the world’s poorest most heavily. It is therefore essential that international development initiatives focus on improving the ability of developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change. This book, a product of research by the JICA-RI (Research Institute of...

The purpose of this review is twofold: it provides an introduction to the theoretical landscape of planning adaptation to climate change, offering an overview of many of its key concepts and approaches; and it draws out key issues that are especially relevant to countries in the Lower Mekong...

The AIACC project is an enabling activity of the Global Environment Facility in the climate change focal area. Primary funding for the AIACC project was provided by a GEF grant of US$7,500,000. Financial support was also received from the Canadian International Development Agency (US$100,000), the Rockefeller Foundation (US$25,000),...

The Mekong River Commission

Policy and investment decisions can have implications that extend beyond their initial objective. Local decisions that aim to promote trajectories towards desirable futures at the local scale can alter factors that are determined at higher regional scales. Alterations of regional factors can create feedbacks influencing the characteristics of initial...

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...

Since the 3rd World Water Forum (Kyoto, 2003) the Caribbean and Pacific region have been collaborating as part of the global Dialogue on Water and Climate (DWC) initiative, which works »to improve the capacity in water resources management to cope with the impacts of increasing variability of the...