adaptation action
Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme – book chapter
Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme is a book chapter book on the UK programme entitled Quantifying climate risk and building resilience in the UK (2024).
Progress, good practices and lessons learned in prioritizing and incorporating gender-responsive adaptation action
Read this policy brief to learn how to develop and implement gender-responsive adaptation action, taking into consideration the different national circumstances and cultural values.
Maximizing the Impacts of Targeted Gender Analyses for the National Adaptation Plan Process
This briefing note seeks to assess how gender analyses have been used as countries advanced their NAP processes, the changes they contributed to, and the key factors that enabled those changes.
Adaptation to climate change in the mountains of East Africa
Learn about the challenges of climate change in the mountains of East Africa (the Rwenzori, Virunga, Mount Elgon and Mount Kilimanjaro), and hear examples of adaptation actions in this short video!
Adaptation to climate change in the Andes
Learn about how climate change is affecting the Andes and how the region is adapting through its National Adaptation Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in this short video!
Irreversible changing climate in alpine Switzerland: Can we adapt?
Learn about how climate change is affecting the Swiss Alps and examples of adaptation actions in this short video!
Gender in climate action training pack: A resource for practitioners
Climate and Develoment Knowledge Brokers (CDKN) has developed a pack of presentations and exercises for facilitators to use in training settings, to help climate and development professionals to integrate gender perspectives into climate projects and programmes.
Evaluating Adaptation: An Analysis of Policy Progress in Coastal Cities and Regions
Explore the findings of the CLIC project “Are cities properly preparing for climate change?” and learn more about the European Research Council (ERC) funded project ‘IMAGINE adaptation’ in this policy brief. It highlights the urgent need to evaluate adaptation in urban areas and understand progress across governance levels.
Factsheet for young people: Water Resources Management, Floods and Disaster Risk Management
In this brief created by the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA), learn why disaster risk reduction (DRR) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) are essential steps on the path to climate adaptation. This factsheet is part of a series presenting data from the GCA's flagship studies State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa 2021 and 2022.
Factsheet for young people: Locally Led Adaptation
How can locally led adaptation respond to highly localized risks in contexts marked by deficits in formal governance machinery? Learn more in this factsheet, which is part of a series that presents information from the Global Center on Adaptation’s flagship reports State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa 2021 and 2022.