This report represents a synthesis and summary of frameworks for the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation (CCA) interventions, with a specific focus on international development projects and programs. The objective of this report is to: Provide an easy-to-read synthesis of current adaptation...

This research report looks at how an understanding of climate legal risk is crucial for organisations when dealing with liability arising from climate change impacts. The report follows a series of pro bono workshops held in the Pacific in August 2013, in partnership with the...

This publication addresses the often-debated question of how to assess the total value of an adaptation project by introducing an innovative quantification concept that allows the comparison of adaptation projects. A new study conducted by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) uses indicators of ‘saved...

In May 2013, the world crossed a symbolic threshold when observed concentrations of the main atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas, CO2, exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time. Understanding where the world stands in relation to its low-carbon and climate-resilient investment goals is a more...

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, there is a pressing need for a comprehensive, well-informed response that enhances adaptive capacity among vulnerable communities. In many parts of the world, efforts to address the impacts of climate change have focused on national-level policies...

Climate finance — international and national finance for mitigating and adapting to climate change — is stimulating innovative national planning that links climate resilience with more sustainable and equitable economic growth. This paper explores some of those initiatives, and how climate finance could effectively contribute...

This regional study includes the People's Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Mongolia and examines how strategies for adapting to climate change up to 2050 can be combined with measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in East Asia. Besides discussing climate model...

Mongolia is struggling with radical changes to both its cities and its rural areas as climate change and economic transformation reshapes the entire nation. Dealing with the scale and nature of that change is daunting, but it can be grasped in part from intelligent use...

In Southeast Asia, there are already a number of efforts both at the national and local level on climate change adaptation (CCA). There is an appreciable knowledge base available on CCA. However, what is often overlooked by most organisations and entities implementing CCA interventions is...

Floods costing billions of dollars in losses have impacted several parts of South Asia during the first half-year of 2013. The deadliest disaster out of the 460 recorded "natural hazard events" worldwide was a series of flash floods in northern India and Nepal that killed...