Linking sectoral adaptation planning processes at national and subnational levels: Lessons from Senegal
Senegal’s NAP process has created institutional mechanisms that facilitate strategic linkages between local and national adaptation planning in climate-sensitive sectors.
Indonesia: Costs of Climate Change 2050
The assessment focuses on agriculture, health, and sea level rise (SLR), estimating the costs that would be incurred in the year 2050 due to changes in climate or to loss of land from SLR.
Canada's Adaptation Platform: Projects and Results
This report summarises case studies across 11 sectors of industry and adaptation themes from Canada's Adaptation Platform.
Long-term coastal adaptation in Australia
This article presents key findings from two recent studies that guide local governments towards flexible and robust coastal adaptation planning that addresses both social and physical impacts.
From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate
From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2008 reflects the advances made in understanding Canada’s vulnerability to climate change during the past decade.
Crescent Beach Community Addresses Coastal Flooding
This report documents the outcomes of a series of meetings with the Crescent Beach community of British Columbia in the summer of 2016 to discuss reponses to sea level rise.
Addressing flooding in the city of Surat beyond its boundaries
This paper describes the flood risks faced by Surat, India. It also reviews measures being taken to reduce flood risks – and how climate change is likely to affect such risks.
Climate Impacts on Food Security and Livelihoods in Asia
This report presents a summary of the latest available evidence of how climate change and food security interact, with specific examples from the Asia region.
CC&E Nexus Brief: Migration
This brief focuses on the climate change, environment and migration nexus and synthesizes the main findings on this subject to date, both in general and with a focus on North Africa.
Enhancing women's livelihoods in response to climate change
In Mauritius, climate change impacts threaten the existence of the Grand-Sable villagers, especially of the women who rely on fishing for their household subsistence and income.
Climate Adaptation In Bangladesh
How much is spent on country level adaptation projects? What types of projects are funded? And where are these projects?
FCFA Pilot: Ghana
As a precursor to the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) research activities, CDKN, on behalf of DFID commissioned a series of case study activities with the purposes of...
Targeting Zero Zero - Achieving zero extreme poverty on the path to zero net emissions
The eradication of extreme poverty is, perhaps, the minimum ethical floor for global development efforts. Progress over the past two decades has reduced extreme poverty...
Coastal Community Adaptation Project (C-CAP)
Pacific Island countries, some of which stand just a few metres above sea level, form one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. The nature-based...
Nigg Bay Nature Reserve
In response to sea-level rise, managed coastal realignment was undertaken in Nigg Bay, Scotland, allowing the saltmarsh to re-establish naturally.
Impacts of sea-level rise in Africa
Coastline in Mauritius. Image: © mauritius-islander.com/
Impacts of sea-level rise in MauritiusThe Republic of Mauritius is a group of 20 small islands with a total...
Impacts of sea-level rise in Africa
Kenya: impacts of sea-level rise are likely to be felt beyond the coastal and national boundaries.
Impacts of sea-level rise in Africa
Africa has a large and growing coastal population, including a number of important coastal cities. With sea-level rise, flooding and inundation of coastal areas would be expected...
Coastal Resilience in S. Sulawesi
Botto village with its 2,144 inhabitants is located at the Gulf of Bone in Wajo district in South Sulawesi. The villagers face severe enviromental degradation in form of mangrove...
Building coastal resilience in Thong Tom Yai, Thailand
Thong Tom Yai Community is located in Thong Tom Bay in Tambon Dan Sawi, in Chumphon province in the South of Thailand. The main sources of income in Thong...
Building coastal resilience in Tambon Klong Yang
Source: Raks Thai Foundation
Summary of Adaptation ChallengeTambon Koh Klong Yang is located in the north of Koh Lanta district. Climate change intensifies weather...
Adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh
The city of Khulna in South-western Bangladesh suffers from frequent inundation due to high intensity rainfall events, ©Ludwig.
Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable...
ECR: Flood Management
In combination with sea level rise (and coastal erosion), changing rainfall patterns, including events of higher rainfall intensity, could contribute to an increased risk of...
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