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Climate Change
Strengthening the integration between adaptation to climate change and disaster reduction into policy, capacity-building, and sustainable development programme-design
Viet Nam: Government leads region in climate change challenge
9 Mar 2010, IRIN
Serious efforts are under way to respond to the impact of climate change in Vietnam but a lack of capacity and resources remains a challenge, experts say. Vietnam is the country most threatened by rising sea levels, according to World Bank studies...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.1 [PDF, 104Kb]Disaster risk reduction is an integral objective of environment related policies and plans, including for land use natural resource management and adaptation to climate change
- Fourth GEOSS Asia-Pacific symposium10-12 Mar 2010, Indonesia (Bali)
- International African water and sanitation congress and exhibition15-18 Mar 2010, Uganda (Kampala)
- Roundtable: Humanitarian NGOs in a changing world: How do we adapt?15 Mar 2010, Brussels (Brussels)
- MA programme in climate and societyColumbia Univ
- Disaster risk reduction in citiesUCL, United Kingdom (London)
- Assessment and management of geological riskUNIGE
- Climate change: impacts and roles of humans2009, Plan Intl
- Climate change adaptation: knowledge needs survey resultsUNDP
- El bosque de las luciérnagas2002, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia; Sistema Nacional de Prevencion y Atencion de Desastres, Colombia - gov
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Climate, disasters and international development2010
- Trade and environment review 2009/2010: promoting poles of clean growth to foster the transition to a more sustainable economy2009, UNCTAD
- International conference of island and coastal biosphere reserves: climate change and island and coastal ecosystems2009, Jeju, Korea, Rep of - gov; UNESCO Jakarta; UNESCO
- Climate change vulnerability map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Multiple climate hazard map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Adaptive capacity map of Southeast Asia in 2005Jan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Head of climate changeUnited Kingdom (Brighton), IDS
- Forestry, climate change and biodiversity conservation technical advisorIndonesia (Jakarta), Winrock Intl
- Adaptation negotiatorUnited States of America (Washington, DC), U.S. Dept of State, United States of America - gov
External Online Resources
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- Adaptation atlas
- Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
- CAP-NET: IWRM and climate change
- Caribbean Risk Management Initiative
- Climate and Disaster Governance (CDG)
- Climatefundsupdate.org
- DEFRA UK: Understanding adaptation
- Dialogue on climate change adaptation for land and water managment
- Disaster risk and climate change (UN/ISDR)
- East Asia and Pacific: A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening DRM
- Eclipse Africa
- Eldis: community-based adaptation exchange
- FAO: Climate impact on agriculture (CLIMPAG)
- Gateway to the UN System's work on climate change: understanding adaptation
- gendercc - women for climate justice platform for information, knowledge and networking
- Globalislands.net special report: disappearing islands
- Integrated Risk Governance Project
- Knowledge network on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- Regional climate outlooks
- ReliefWeb: humanitarian implications of climate change
- Selemat Project
- Special report: managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (IPCC)
- TckTckTck: A global alliance of actors calling for a fair climate change deal
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- Training material: climate change vulnerability & adaptation (C3D project)
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UNFCCC: adaptation to climate change
- UNFCCC: National communications Annex I
- UNFCCC: Non-Annex I national communications
- WHO and UNEP: Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI), climate change risk for policymakers
- WHO: Health and climate change
- WikiADAPT
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
- WRI: Vulnerability & adaptation database
Officially declared national coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary mechanisms for advocacy, coordination, analysis and advice on disaster risk reduction.