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This working paper highlights Armenia’s progress and needs in scaling up finance for comprehensive adaptation investments and fiscal planning to deepen resilience to climate change.
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This seismic risk profile of Armenia, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
Armenia faces severe water challenges due to climate change and needs immediate and long-term strategies to safeguard its water resources and ensure sustainable agriculture.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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This report provides high-level climate risk assessments for cities in Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan. It is designed to mainstream mitigation and adaptation into urban planning to help ensure climate resilient growth.
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This paper explores the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to learn lessons on how to build the resilience of their social protection system.
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CLEAR analysis inform targeted resilience and adaptation activities, shed light on climate risks, provide a climate lens to monitoring systems, serve as an emergency preparedness & policy tool, and offer recommendations to strengthen household resilience
View of mountain Ararat and Yerevan city in Armenia
According to the latest official figures, Armenia has experienced a 1.2° C rise in average temperatures and a 20 percent increase in extreme weather events over the last century.
United Nations Development Programme - Armenia
The COP27 climate summit kicked off this week in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. As parties to the climate change treaty gather to review annual progress on reducing carbon emissions, one key issue is the impact the climate crisis is having on poorer countries.
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