Action on climate change

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Increasing the resilience of poor communities to cope with the impact of climate change

Activities By strengthening the capacity of vulnerable communities, the project aims to increase the resilience of poor people to cope with and...

Pastoral livelihoods and climate change

Activities This research aims to analyse the capacity of different categories of pastoral people to adapt to climate change.

ACCCA experiences: examples of risk communication strategies

Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration Between Malian Communities and Scientific Organizations to Identify and Implement...

ACCCA experiences: implications of risk communication strategies for adaptation decisions

This material is largely based on the ACCCA project Synthesis Report Next steps

Adaptation signatures

1 Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way One approach to understanding climate...

Adaptation Targets

Back to: Sub-Module 1.2 - Institutional policy matrix Adaptation to climate change is not only multidimensional, encompassing various impacts,...

Adaptation Targets in Mongolia

Back to Adaptation Targets The Climate Change Adaptation Targets (CCAT) in Mongolia Project is being implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.

Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA)

Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration between Malian Communities...

AMCEN

The 12th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) was held in Johannesburg on 7-12 June 2008.

Annie Roncerel

Annie Bonnin Roncerel is the manager the UNITAR climate change programme which includes NAPA technical support, ACCCA pilot actions and the Climate...

An introduction to adaptation

We see adaptation a process of socio-institutional learning relevant for specific contexts, and producing adaptation outcomes and processes...

Burkina Faso

Current Climate and hazards

Business and Adaptation

Some thoughts on my impending PhD study: Environmental change has always affected civilizations and hence business . The rate of climate change...

Centres for Climate Adaptation Cognac exercise

Process of developing a motif was interesting - had difficult questions to ask. This developed an understanding that communication would be key to developing adaptation messages.

Circe foundation paper

This interactive user guide is being developed to produce CIRCE project deliverable D13.2.1 Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening.

Colombia NCAP Project

This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...

Comic Relief Training of Trainers Nairobi May 2009

The participant list can be downloaded: here (in case you lost your original version!) The session by session agenda of the workshop can be found here‎ Presentations

Country Information For Sida

The purpose of this page is to gather information that will be useful to Sida for conducting a quick screening of the effects of climate change...

Decision Climate Envelopes

Facing the uncertainty inherent in making a decision about a future which is not entirely known or understood will require specific consideration...

Defining the policy decision framework

It is likely to be a participatory module that will coach people through questions related to: 1) the aim of climate adaptation? (e.

Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa

POLICY BRIEF : Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa

EGS4032 Entry Page

This site will be developed by the 2009 students, who are encouraged to add links to relevant material, upload summaries of papers read in class...

Guide to Adaptation Tools

To introduce the tools currently available for Adaptation To establish a collaborative space to organize, share and disseminate user-developer...

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Institute for the Popularization and Application of Science, Burkina Faso

IAVS offers courses in the field of climate change which include: A Masters in the management and economics of climate change; A short course...

Interpretive Examples and Guidance for the Climate Change Explorer

The following guidance summarizes the results of the workshop held from March 31st to April 11th in Cape Town, South Africa for the working group...

Join the Dialogue

1 Audience 2 Purpose of the guide 3 Links to pages 4 Next steps Great... so you are someone who works with climate data to generate new...

Key findings from Bolivia NCAP Project

Follow this link for findings from the Bolivia NCAP project on the vulnerability of systems of production and human health around Lake Titicaca and perceptions of risk and change.

Key findings from Ghana NCAP Project

The chart on the left shows the variation in monthly mean air temperatures for Ghana as a whole. As can be seen, incremental temperatures in...

Key Findings from Suriname NCAP Project

The impact assessments and scenarios developed in the context of this project all confirm the findings and conclusions from previous studies...

Knowledge mapping of climate change adaptation actors in Kenya

The workshop was organized jointly by Practical Action, the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Agenda and Participants

Lessons learned from Guatemala NCAP Project

One conclusion that can be drawn from this experience is that not all policy and decision processes can be informed by climate change considerations.

Lessons learned from Mongolia NCAP Project

Based on the results and findings from the studies and reports, it is recognized that urgent actions are needed to prepare Mongolia for the potential...

Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)

The question of whether climate change will happen has been replaced with even more sobering questions: how great will the change be, and how...

New Opportunities

The idea is for Climatic Change Letters to be a rapid publication vehicle for brief articles (about four journal pages), aiming for a submission-to-publication time of 4 months.

Organisational change and learning across scales

The major concern in climate adaptation planning tends to focus on evaluating current risks and developing effective strategies in response to those risks.

Overview

Adaptation to climate variability and change is a social process. It requires us to assess and respond to past climatic impacts, to increase...

Oxfam Entry Page

Read the information on this page Climate science, projections and interpretation and follow the links there for additional resources.

Working Group on the Climate Change Explorer

See the Briefing Page of the Climate Change Explorer for Users here Download a brief for the Climate Change Explorer here or download the tool...

Pan-African START Secretariat

The Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS) promotes collaboration within the African research community for sound scientific assessments of the...

International Institute for Environment and Development

We know that climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world, who not only have the least capacity to respond and adapt...

Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA)

The ACCCA project brings stakeholders and scientific communities of the developing world together to enable and support effective adaptation...

Adaptation Decision Explorer

Adaptation to climate change requires understanding of social processes. It means that we need to assess and respond to past climatic impacts,...

SEI Oxford Office

The SEI Oxford centre focuses on adaptive resource management, particularly related to climatic risks, with expertise in water, food security and livelihoods.

Participatory Climate Risk Assessment and Development of Local Adaptation Action Plans

This project aims to develop a community-driven adaptation plan of action, as well as to facilitate the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation...

Community Led Climate Adaptation Programme for Sustainable Livelihoods in Coastal Areas

The Nigerian coast is one of the low lying lagoonal Western African coasts, which is likely to experience severe impacts from flooding as a result...

Who's doing what in adaptation?

A new section! There seems to be a lot of demand to know more about the institutional landscape of adaptation; who are the major actors, what...

Challenges and opportunities in communicating risk

Differences in background and technical expertise Approaching a diverse range of stakeholders that comprises diversity of disciplines, training...

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This is a list of People who frequently write content about Action on climate change.

Ben Smith

SEI Oxford admin

Anna Taylor

Fernanda Zermoglio

Tahia Devisscher

Sukaina Bharwani

Sibel Korhaliller

Nathan Rixham

Ruth Butterfield

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