Thorthormi lake: Bhutan's impending climate disaster
Mission to reduce chances of glacial lake's outburst fails to achieve target. The Thorthormi glacial lake in northern Bhutan is considered the country's likeliest climate-induced disaster. The lake,...
View ArticleReady or not: assessing institutional aspects of national capacity for...
This report introduces the National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework, a tool to help governments bring institutional capacity development into their adaptation planning processes. The NAC framework...
View ArticleMainstreaming gender and climate change in Nepal
There is growing recognition that finding appropriate responses to climate change requires a broad understanding and approach beyond the scientific, and that policy reform must be part of a process of
View ArticleScoping study on financing adaptation-mitigation synergy activities
This study looks at different ways to improve adaptation and mitigation synergies in climate change financing. It reviews existing definitions of synergies and identifies various types of synergies that
View ArticleAgricultural biodiversity in climate change adaptation planning
To guide climate adaptation policies and investments, the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) have developed National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs). Agricultural biodiversity is an...
View ArticleLow carbon resilient development and gender equality in the least developed...
Bringing together the dual aims of low-carbon and climate resilient development has become a significant policy goal in planning for climate change. This, along with an increasing recognition of the...
View ArticleThe role of the 2015 agreement in enhancing adaptation to climate change
Adaptation responses are needed to address the existing levels of climate variability and to prepare for future climate impacts. There is wide agreement that adaptation is an important issue and would
View ArticleClimate change adaptation in Burkina Faso: aid dependency and obstacles to...
This study analyses the climate change discourses and political dynamics in south-western Burkina Faso from three empirical entry points: the production of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action;
View ArticleGood practice in designing and implementing national monitoring systems for...
A publication launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) DTU Partnership (UDP) and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) showcases practices that have been developed in monitoring and...
View ArticleAddressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in National Adaptation Plans:...
FAO has developed supplementary guidelines to the UNFCCC NAP Guidelines for "Addressing Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag Guidelines") aiming to support developing
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