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 9.2
IPCC FAQ 8.1
IPCC FAQ 4.1
IPCC FAQ 2.1
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
Water company
Thames Water are keen to find positive and equitable ways of responding to the challenges presented by climate change in South East England. They are strategically...
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
Mali NCAP project: Mali Case Study 1
Methodology
In addition to experts opinions, the methodological approaches that were used in this study are as follows:
Data collection was conducted in three phases:
Documentary...Information for Country Screening
This page provides an overview of available data sources for use in vulnerability and adaptation assessments. Most of these links pertain to information on biophysical hazards and data...
Adaptation signatures
One approach to understanding climate change adaptation is to focus on a typology of adaptation responses. For instance, many of the NAPA...
Short course training: Robust decision making and uncertainty
A short course training module on robust decision making and uncertainty.
Lessons learned from Mongolia NCAP Project
Building an institutional environment for adaptation
Having realized that adaptation measures will be hard to implement without a strong and committed institutional framework, the project...
Climate model uncertainty
These notes have been collated from presentations given by Bruce Hewitson, Mark Tadross and David Stainforth, some of which can be found at the end of this page, and notes...
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