sea level rise
Adapting coastal cities and territories to sea level rise in the Pacific: Challenges and leading practices
Explore an overview of leading practices, adaptation solutions, and remaining challenges for coastal cities, territories and localities faced with sea level rise in the Pacific in the latest Ocean & Climate Platform report.
Adapting coastal cities and territories to sea level rise in West Africa: Challenges and leading practices
Explore current practices, challenges, and solutions for coastal cities adapting to sea level rise in West Africa.
Climate-induced migration in the Global South: an in depth analysis
This study explores how climate-induced stressors, specifically rising temperatures, water stress and droughts, and floods and sea-level rise, have affected populations in the Global South, leading to voluntary and/or forced migration.
Coastal climate impact analysis and sanitation hazard assesment framework
This handbook provides stepwise guidance for facilitating authorities responsible for citywide sanitation services to develop an adaptive action plan for ensuring the resilience of their city’s sanitation services to the impacts of sea level rise.
Adapting Coastal Cities and Territories to Sea Level Rise in North America – U.S. West Coast: Challenges and Leading Practices
Explore an overview of current practices and remaining challenges for coastal cities in defining and implementing adaptation strategies to sea level rise, proposed solutions, and leading practices developed across California, Oregon and Washington in the latest Ocean & Climate Platform report.
State of the Cryosphere Report 2022
Discover the latest science on the Earth’s snow and ice regions in this report, reviewed and supported by over 60 leading cryosphere scientists. Learn about how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, and thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, and disastrous effects on the Earth’s population.
Integrating Climate Adaptation: A Toolkit for Urban Planners and Adaptation Practitioners
Explore a toolkit for urban planners and adaptation specialists, providing guidance on integrating climate adaptation into urban planning.
The IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate: What’s in it for Latin America?
This publication offers a guide to the IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and the Ocean and Cryosphere, prepared for decision-makers in Latin America by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano and SouthSouthNorth (SSN). This is not an official IPCC publication.
Environmental Linkages to Population Health and Wellbeing in Coastal Areas of the Bay of Bengal (EnHealth-BoB)
EnHealth-Bob is a network created among stakeholders in the Bay of Bengal to link information and data from both public health and climate change domains, to promote appropriate policy action plans.
Improving the resilience of UK coastal communities
This article sheds light on the usage of resilience as a quantitative, evidence based framework for management of climatic hazards in coastal areas of the United Kingdom.