Global warming of 1.5°C and higher brings profound challenges to semi-arid regions
This page collects together key messages and outputs from the ASSAR project relevant to global warming of 1.5°C and higher.
Engaging the private sector in financing adaptation to climate change
The ACT learning brief presents a framework of five approaches that policymakers, practitioners and donors can use to motivate the private sector to invest in climate change adaptation.
hotspots for change in semi-arid India
This paper used satellite images and data to identify areas in semi-arid India that have experienced land use and land cover changes over the last 3 decades and explores their potential drivers
Understanding vulnerabilities through life histories
This article demonstrates how life histories can provide a dynamic and robust methodology to understanding household responses to risks and livelihood vulnerabilities in semi-arid India.
Heat stress in Maharashtra, India
This policy brief examines the vulnerability of communities living in semi-arid Maharashtra to be negatively affected by heat-related stress and the increasing health implications thereof.
When adaptation barriers and enablers intersect
This report highlights findings of the interactions between barriers and enablers in four semi-arid regions, and how these interactions shape the underlying conditions for adaptation action.
The gendered challenges of food security
This article provides key findings from ASSAR study sites in the semi-arid regions of Africa and India, where gender was found to have a large role in how food security is affected.
Building Energy Efficiency
The Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project is a bilateral cooperation project aimed at mainstreaming energy-efficient and thermally comfortable building design in India.
Building capacity for risk management in a changing climate
This Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) project analyses the role of climate change in affecting the hydrological regimes of Kenya, Ethiopia, India and Bangladesh.
Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for the Indian Himalayan Region
This manual provides a common framework for climate vulnerability and risk assessment, a methodology for its application and guidelines for mainstreaming adaptation planning in development plans.
Climate change, migration and adaptation in deltas
Summary of key findings from the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project which ran 2014-2018 and focused on African and Asian deltas.
Even half a degree of warming matters for South Asia’s urban poor
Aditi Paul of CDKN Asia reflects on the revelations in the IPCC’s 1.5°C Special Report and its implications, including key messages for cities.
The IPCC’s 1.5°C Report: increasing risk of heatwaves in African cities
Suzanne Carter, CDKN Country Engagement Coordinator, highlights why we need to start seriously considering the risk of extreme heat in African cities, following the release of the IPCC’s 1.5 Report.
Climate-Resilient Agriculture in South Asia: An analytical framework and insights from practice
The paper explores entry-points for and examples of climate resilient agriculture (CRA) in South Asia, and the current challenges and knowledge gaps affecting it's implementation.
Climate-Resilient Water Management: An operational framework from South Asia
The paper presents a conceptual framework for Climate-Resilient Water Management (CRWM) and provides examples of CRWM interventions developed and deployed by the ACT programme across SE Asia.
Heat Stress, Vulnerability and health impacts
This working paper from ASSAR examines vulnerability of rural communities to heat stress in the semi-arid villages in Maharashtra state in India.
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change within governance systems in South Asia
The paper introduces a general analytical framework for mainstreaming adaptation to climate change within governance systems.
Flood risk and Early Warning Systems in the Indian Himalayas
This science brief provides an example of an integrated adaptation response involving long term monitoring and an Early Warning System (EWS) in the Indian Himalayan Region.
Mountain and lowland linkages: A Climate Change perspective in the Himalayas
This science brief highlights the linkages between upland and lowland areas with respect to specific themes in mountain ecosystems.
An integrated response to climate change in the Indian Himalayan Region
This brief emphasizes the need to adopt an EbA approach in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) to enhance the climate resilience of communities dependent on natural resources.
Assessing climate vulnerability and risk in the Indian Himalayan region
This science brief provides a general guidance on conducting a climate risk assessment in the Indian Himalayan Region.
Valuing the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of EbA Measures
This sourcebook assists in building awareness, knowledge and capacity about why, how and in which contexts EbA valuation can be used to inform, guide and influence adaptation decision-making.
Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme
The Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme works to strengthen climate science (especially glaciology and related areas) and capacities for climate change adaptation planning.
Identifying differentiated needs for resilience planning in urban poor communities
This webinar looked at key results from the application of the Urban Community Resilience Assessment tool and discuss how it can better capture differentiated needs to inform resilience planning.
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