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
IPCC FAQ 9.2
IPCC FAQ 8.1
IPCC FAQ 4.1
IPCC FAQ 2.1
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
Step 5: Understanding trends
A first step in assessing these potential impacts is to highlight or estimate the major current and expected trends (direction, magnitude, and extent) of climate-related hazards. The purpose of...
Methodology of Mongolia NCAP Project
In the context of the NCAP project, four interrelated studies were carried out to further develop the understanding of climate change vulnerabilities in Mongolia, with a special focus on rural...
First Technical Assistance Workshop for ACCCA Pilot Action Teams
Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA) First Technical Assistance Workshop
Africa Regional Strategy
This short overview of climate change issues in Africa was written by Ben Smith and Anna Taylor in 2009 as input to an Environment and Climate Change policy brief to inform the...
Summary methods to identifying climate vulnerability and exposure
I: Focus on key hazards or opportunities through a livelihood-exposure sensitivity matrix
A livelihood sensitivity matrix provides a starting point for determining which livelihoods are...
Methodology of Ghana NCAP Project
At the operational level, the Ghana NCAP project was divided into two, eighteen-month phases. Mainstreaming climate change into the national development agenda was the overriding driver...
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