Climate Models: What They Show Us and How They Can Be Used in Planning
Explore this guide from the Future Climate For Africa programme which provides a primer on global climate models (GCMs) and how to use them in planning.
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change.
Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile, Data-Poor States
This report provides peacebuilding practitioners with guidance for accessing and using climate data and information in fragile contexts.
Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change
The present report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. This is...
IPCC FAQ 10.2
IPCC FAQ 10.2: This material is extracted from the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section of the Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group 1
Assessment of adaptation needs - Vietnam
With the Fourth Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 20071, it has become clear that: (i) climate change is this century’s main threat to...
CIP Landing
We gather you’ve been browsing around the Climate Information Portal (CIP) looking at climate data that’s available for the areas that you work in. You seem to have reached the...
Guidance for assessing vulnerability
Guidance for assessing vulnerability and links to examples
Using downscaled climate data
Rainfall anomalies for Juba, South Sudan
To develop suitable adaptation strategies it is important to build up an understanding of what the climate is in the area you...
Bangladesh: Climate Projections
This work forms part of a Policy Briefing on Climate Change in Bangladesh produced by Practical Action in 2008. Other sections of the report can be seen in the Related...
AdaptCost
Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change, yet economic assessments of the costs of adaptiation are few. The AdaptCost project attempted to address this gap.
CIRCE Foundation Paper Protoypes
As examples of cases in which the information within wikiadapt can be used, prototypes have been developed for several countries which are at various stages in the...
CIRCE Foundation Paper Introduction
Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening. Suggested approach views adaptation as a socio-institutional process of learning and change that needs to be supported in innovative ways
Adaptation signatures
One approach to understanding climate change adaptation is to focus on a typology of adaptation responses. For instance, many of the NAPA...
Oxfam Entry Page
Welcome to your Oxfam entry point into the online learning and sharing resources that weADAPT provides! You are one of the participants taking part in a one month trial during October to build...
Climate changes in East Africa
The average global surface temperature has warmed 0.8°C in the past century and 0.6°C in the past three decades (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC...
Vietnam NCAP Project
Introduction
Located in southeast Asia, with a tropical...
Key findings from Ghana NCAP Project
Climate Scenario Modeling
Projected evolution of average annual rainfall
Temperatures are expected to increase in Ghana, and by 2080 changes are expected to be the highest...
Methodology of Suriname NCAP Project
In order to develop and formulate specific adaptation measures for Paramaribo and Wanica, the study started with a detailed description and updating of the present conditions in the study area in...
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