Adaptation to global warming
Adaptation to global warming consists of initiatives and measures to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects. This is in distinction to the mitigation of global warming. en.wikipedia.org
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By strengthening the capacity of vulnerable communities, the project aims to increase the resilience of poor people to cope with and...
Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration Between Malian Communities and Scientific Organizations to Identify and Implement...
This material is largely based on the ACCCA project Synthesis Report Next steps
1 Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way One approach to understanding climate...
Back to: Sub-Module 1.2 - Institutional policy matrix Adaptation to climate change is not only multidimensional, encompassing various impacts,...
Back to Adaptation Targets The Climate Change Adaptation Targets (CCAT) in Mongolia Project is being implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM ENDA is one of the few truly international African NGOs whose constituency comprises African populations in urban...
Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration between Malian Communities...
This short overview of climate change issues in Africa was written by Ben Smith and Anna Taylor as input to an Environment and Climate Change...
The 12th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) was held in Johannesburg on 7-12 June 2008.
Hi! I'm a Research Assistant working at the Oxford Office of the Stockholm Environment Institute... but with a strong southern African bond.
One of the climatic events that may become more frequent and intense due to climate change is El Nino. Over the last 3 decades the Andean sub-region...
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We see adaptation a process of socio-institutional learning relevant for specific contexts, and producing adaptation outcomes and processes...
This interactive user guide is being developed to produce CIRCE project deliverable D13.2.1 Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening.
The following talking points were written by Tom Downing on January 23, 2007. 1. The longer term need for adapting to climate change begins with...
This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...
The participant list can be downloaded: here (in case you lost your original version!) The session by session agenda of the workshop can be found here Presentations
1 Purpose of this guide: 2 This guide is designed specifically for: 3 Concepts and context 4 Process 5 Prototype projects 6 Links 7 Next steps...
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM, Dakar, Senegal Sen (1999) defines development as the creation of choice and lack of development as having no choice or no say in what happens.
SEI, as part of the weADAPT Group, coordinated the launch of a new climate change adaptation platform at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007.
The purpose of this page is to gather information that will be useful to Sida for conducting a quick screening of the effects of climate change...
Facing the uncertainty inherent in making a decision about a future which is not entirely known or understood will require specific consideration...
POLICY BRIEF : Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa
To introduce the tools currently available for Adaptation To establish a collaborative space to organize, share and disseminate user-developer...
The overall aim of Oxfam’s collaboration with WeADAPT is to: Create and sustain a global online learning and sharing resource for Oxfam GB...
The following guidance summarizes the results of the workshop held from March 31st to April 11th in Cape Town, South Africa for the working group...
1 Audience 2 Purpose of the guide 3 Links to pages 4 Next steps Great... so you are someone who works with climate data to generate new...
Follow this link for findings from the Bolivia NCAP project on the vulnerability of systems of production and human health around Lake Titicaca and perceptions of risk and change.
The chart on the left shows the variation in monthly mean air temperatures for Ghana as a whole. As can be seen, incremental temperatures in...
The impact assessments and scenarios developed in the context of this project all confirm the findings and conclusions from previous studies...
The majority of households in the study area are considered to be very poor and vulnerable with low access to livelihood assets.
The workshop was organized jointly by Practical Action, the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Agenda and Participants
There are several different modes of learning which would be grouped under the umbrella theme of learning by example, and these are suited to different types of decision making.
Standardize the applied methodologies. Establish a database to be used as a reference and baseline in the evaluation of the bio-climatic processes...
One conclusion that can be drawn from this experience is that not all policy and decision processes can be informed by climate change considerations.
Based on the results and findings from the studies and reports, it is recognized that urgent actions are needed to prepare Mongolia for the potential...
The question of whether climate change will happen has been replaced with even more sobering questions: how great will the change be, and how...
The idea is for Climatic Change Letters to be a rapid publication vehicle for brief articles (about four journal pages), aiming for a submission-to-publication time of 4 months.
The major concern in climate adaptation planning tends to focus on evaluating current risks and developing effective strategies in response to those risks.
This table was part of the background material SEI Oxford prepared for the UNEP international consultation meeting on the development of the...
Read the information on this page Climate science, projections and interpretation and follow the links there for additional resources.
See the Briefing Page of the Climate Change Explorer for Users here Download a brief for the Climate Change Explorer here or download the tool...
The United Nations Environment Program provides leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and...
We know that climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world, who not only have the least capacity to respond and adapt...
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to development and human security. The international community recognizes the urgent need to limit...
Dutch development support to combat climate change was encouraged by the creation of the UNFCCC in 1992, the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and the formulation...
The ACCCA project brings stakeholders and scientific communities of the developing world together to enable and support effective adaptation...