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Indigenous Climate Hub Podcast: Sharing powerful stories from Indigenous voices on the frontlines of climate change in Canada
About The Indigenous Climate Hub Podcast brings you powerful stories from Indigenous voices on the frontlines of climate change in...
Financing Nature-based Solutions for adaptation at scale
This report reviews the status of nature finance globally, to learn from the role played by nature-focussed funds and their investment managers, understand what works, and draw conclusions for how we might mobilise more financing for nature-based solutions for adaptation
Decolonizing digital citizen science: Applying the Bridge Framework for climate change preparedness and adaptation
This paper presents a framework for decolonizing digital citizen science for climate change preparedness and adaptation.
How to channel climate funds to the local level: choosing the right delivery mechanism
This report outlines delivery mechanisms for ensuring that at least 70% of climate finance reaches local communities in Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Bridging evidence gaps in attributing loss and damage, and measures to minimize impacts
Highlighting the challenges faced by developing countries in attributing and addressing climate change impacts, this article advocates for improved data quality, enhanced climate resilience strategies, and actionable science to support the implementation of the Loss and Damage Fund.
Decolonial climate finance in practice: assessing proposed reforms
In this working paper, the authors develop a set of guiding questions for determining the extent to which international finance reforms are decolonial and tackle the deep imbalances of power between the Global North and Global South.
Nature-based solutions to multiple crises: Scaling urban implementation in cities in Asia and the Pacific
This policy brief explores how nature-based solutions (NbS) can address interconnected environmental and urban challenges in Asia and the Pacific. It recommends stronger NbS integration in policy, localized implementation, blended finance, and the use of scientific and indigenous knowledge to enhance urban resilience and biodiversity.
Cross-border, cascading climate risks and the LDC Group: Catalyzing management options within the UNFCCC
This policy brief highlights efforts to develop indicators capturing transboundary and cascading climate risks for inclusion in the UAE–Belém Work Programme, emphasizing regional and international cooperation to strengthen adaptation strategies for Least Developed Countries.
The exacerbated effects of climate-induced Loss and Damage (L&D) & adaptation capacity: A case study of Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda
This study highlights the disproportionate impact of climate change-induced loss and damage on Sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing the region’s vulnerability despite its minimal carbon emissions, and calls for urgent international action, equitable climate finance, and stronger adaptation policies to address structural and immediate climate risks.
The Risk-Tandem Framework: Combining risk governance and knowledge co-production toward integrated disaster risk management and climate adaptation
This paper presents the Risk-Tandem framework for bridging theory and practice; to guide and structure the integration of disaster risk management, climate adaptation and systemic risk management through a process of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production.