One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supports the region is by designing and implementing standalone capacity building programs targeted specifically at government officials. Responding to regional capacity building needs, including a lack of urban-related climate change trainings available, in 2014 USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific developed the Urban...

What is the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions project? Learn about this flagship project through the power of stop motion. We are trying to ensure user-driven content from the ASSAR project, so if you enjoy this, please take a moment to give us your...

Interested in how climate change is affecting dryland and semi-arid regions? Are they climate change hotspots? Take a look at the ASSAR Climate Messages animations. We are trying to ensure user-driven content from the ASSAR project, so please take a moment to give us your...

The semi-arid regions of India are climate change hotspots, experiencing climate change acutely. Over the next 50 years, the semi-arid areas of India are expected to become warmer with continued variation in average rainfall and an increase in extreme weather. Increases in the frequency and...

Participants, including government officials and climate finance experts, of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supported 10th Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) Exchange Series agreed that countries need to build up their skills to prepare good project proposals in order to better access climate change adaptation financing. Over a...

The fourth publication in the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Adaptation Finance Knowledge Series presents the methodology used in the Pacific Cost-Benefit Analysis Initiative (P-CBA) training workshops, accompanied by examples from the trainings of how the methodology has been employed. It is shared as a tool to...

In the next few decades, climate change in China will add pressure onto water resources, already under intense stress. China’s successful investments in water-related infrastructure have helped mitigate climate variability and strengthen water, food and energy security; but the country’s water supplies are now dwindling...

China is experiencing noticeable changes in its climate. Annual average air temperature has risen by 0.5-0.8℃, slightly higher than the average global temperature increase (0.74℃), and most of these changes have been observed over the past 50 years. In the southern China province of Guangdong,...

Most climate science is done for climate scientists. Designed and presented with the needs of the research community in mind, projects often fall short of providing the information needed by policymakers. The science-centred approach has built an invaluable global knowledge base about past, present, and...

For government planners and other decision-makers, model simulations of future climate change pose a dilemma. Climate projections are consistent and unambiguous about coming stresses and the need to take adaptive action — but often do not provide enough detail to allow them to work out...