Adaptation to climate change in the aftermath of the Paris Agreement: on the rise globally, but policy and scientific challenges ahead
This blog reflects on the developments in climate change adaptation since the signing of the Paris Agreement.
Adaptation to Glacio-Hydrological Change in High Mountains
This dissertation explores how adaptation is studied in mountain systems as well as what we know about and might do to address growing adaptation needs in high mountain communities.
Climate adaptation must be reframed from a local issue to a global responsibility
This brief provides several recommendations on how the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) could encourage better accounting of transboundary climate risk.
Conducting Gender Analysis to Inform National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
This briefing note describes the rationale and approach that NAP Global Network has taken in supporting NAP-focused gender analyses in six African countries.
Towards Gender-Responsive NAP Processes
This report presents an analysis of progress on integrating gender considerations in NAP processes.
Climate Finance Received - An Assessment of Biennial Update Reports
In their Biennial Update Report submissions to the UNFCCC, Non-Annex I Parties have encountered difficulty adhearing to UN reporting requirements and have used vastly different reporting approaches.
Budgeting for NDC action – Initial lessons from climate-vulnerable countries
This paper examines the evidence of resourcing NDC policies and actions in four sub-Saharan African countries that are known to be vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Mobilizing private finance: Unlocking the potential of Rwanda’s businesses
This policy brief examines the prospects for mobilizing private climate finance in Rwanda, focusing mainly on adaptation, and highlights measures that could stimulate investment.
Adaptation Gap Report 2016
This report focuses on finance, technology and knowledge gaps in climate change adaptation and ways to address them. It also explores the implications of failing to limit global carbon emissions.
Addressing Indigenous Peoples’ Marginalisation at International Climate Negotiations
A newly released working paper identifies significant marginalisation of Indigenous Peoples at UNFCCC meetings. It proposes actions to enable equitable solutions.
Transnational climate change impacts: An entry point to enhanced global cooperation on adaptation?
This brief explains how SEI developed indicators of transnational climate change impacts and discusses some of the implications for national adaptation planning and global cooperation on adaptation.
Planning for NDC implementation: A Quick-Start Guide
CDKN and Ricardo Energy & Environment have developed a new ‘Quick-Start Guide’ to support planning for Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation.
SeaTrust Institute
The SeaTrust Institute is an environmental research and educational nonprofit organization actively working on environmental science and policy issues both locally and globally. The institute is en
How are dedicated climate funds progressing towards impact?
This short update summarises results reported in 2015 by 14 funds which have collectively approved more than $8.7 billion for climate change projects in developing countries.
From Tracking to Action
This report looks at emerging evidence of civil society engagement and identifies steps that providers of finance, governments, and CSOs can undertake to close the adaptation accountability gap.
Transforming disaster risk reduction
This article highlights key areas where efforts to reduce the underlying causes/drivers of vulnerability and risk need to be improved to create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development.
Putting Climate Knowledge into Climate Action - SEI Oxford seminar 29th of September 2015
On the 29th of September SEI Oxford convened researchers, practitioners, partners and students in an interactive and lively seminar. Please find material from the seminar here
Learning from farmers
This paper underscores how measures to increase climate change resilience must view food, energy, water and waste management systems as interconnected and mutually dependent.
Climate Finance
This theme focuses on how to ensure that climate finance serves to achieve meaningful, long-term change in economic and social development trajectories, particularly for developing countries.
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change.
Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows 2014
The UNFCCC’s Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) has recently made its first Biennial Assessment of Climate Finance Flows Report (BA). The highlights of this report are outlined here.
The Status of Climate Finance at COP20, Lima
Many UNFCCC stakeholders see climate finance as one of the linchpins holding together the entire climate negotiation process, for several reasons. First, climate finance is...
Development and Climate Days 2014 at COP20
Climate change threatens to reverse hard-earned gains to end extreme poverty. But sustainable development has the potential to lift people out of poverty and protect...
The Sustainable Development Goals – Will they deliver climate compatible development for vulnerable countries?
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) presents a new working paper, The Sustainable Development Goals: Will they deliver climate compatible development for vulnerable...
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