As responses to climate change impacts extend beyond greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation, governments and companies increasingly recognize the need to integrate adaptation planning and implementation into balanced risk management strategies. In this context, IPIECA is pleased to announce the release of its awareness briefing...

As a part of our continued efforts to engage stakeholders in strengthening and promoting the cause for which the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network was created, the network in collaboration with the institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan with the support of Ministry of Environment, Japan...

Over the past two decades, the South Pacific’s extreme vulnerability to climate change has increasingly dominated the agenda of the main regional organizations.  And as hope that the international community will act to mitigate climate change has faded, the region is focusing more and more...

The overarching aim of Phase 1 of the China and South-South Scoping Assessment for Learning and Development initiative is to identify key opportunities and avenues for South-South learning and climate compatible development and how to best channel resources to share China's and developing countries' experiences...

Executive Summary Sea level rise (SLR), a slow onset process and an impact of climate change, has two major causes: thermal expansion of the oceans, and the loss of landbased ice due to increased melting. A rise in the local, relative sea level can occur...

Executive Summary There is now no serious scientific dispute about the cause and consequences of anthropogenic climate change. Mitigation and adaptation approaches have been agreed on under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process to deal with climate change. However, due to...

Executive Summary This paper investigates how loss and damage from extreme events is being experienced at the local level – in this case cyclones in the coastal region of Khulna – and what approaches are being used to address it. To better understand how communities...

Executive Summary The overarching aim of this paper is to examine the challenges of addressing loss and damage through national institutional arrangements that integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in Bangladesh. As DRR and CCA share many aims and methodologies, greater...

Executive Summary The issue of climate change-related loss and damage has received substantial international attention in recent years. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established a work programme to enhance understanding of loss and damage at COP 16 in 2010. More recently loss...

Executive Summary In climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh, traditional mechanisms for coping with disasters, such as borrowing from relatives, selling property, using microcredit and savings are often inadequate. In the decades ahead, climate change will bring losses and damages that will challenge the coping ability...