Knowledge exchange on urban resilience
On February 13, 2023 at 15:00-17:00 CET an interactive global knowledge exchange on urban climate risk assessment will was hosted for city officials and risk assessment practitioners to discuss and exchange knowledge on assessing and addressing informal settlements, and exchange knowledge of successes and challenges with implementation, after risk assessments.
Recommendations on the Global Goal on Adaptation
International organizations working on water made a statement of the importance of water to adaptation as inputs to the process of the Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh Work Program (COP26-COP27) on the Global Goal on Adaptation, which aims to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience, and reduce vulnerability.
ALN 2019-22
The project, with its supporting funding, is ending. The ALN project launched in January 2019 and closed March 31, 2022. We hope you will check out our Adaptation Learning Network Final Report.
Adaptation in deltas
Speakers at the webinar presented cases of adaptation in the deltas that showed how to accelerate adaptation to address resilient and sustainable development. They highlighted good practices and how to upscale and accelerate adaptation.
Water Adaptation: Plans and Possibilities for Africa
The 2021 State and Trends in Adaptation Report by the GCA with a focus on Africa, provides an insight into the current state and prospects of water-related resilience in Africa, and lays out a detailed blueprint for water resource management for the continent.
Webinar: Water in the State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa
This webinar brought out water perspectives on adaptation for Africa, drawing on the State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa report in the light of climate change, and how water adaptation gave opportunities to leverage water for economic and human development.
From CAS 2021 to COP 26
A side event at the UN General Assembly 2021, reviewed progress made towards climate adaptation since the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021. Global leaders highlighted solutions and identified outcomes to ensure adaptation contributed to a successful COP26.
Water and Spirituality
Iberê Guarany Mbyá, a Guanary tribe leader from Brazil makes an appeal to recognize the connection that living beings have with each other, and to recognize how damages to the natural resource base erodes the lives and livelihoods of indigenous communities.
Four ways that spirituality can revolutionize climate adaptation
Spiritual leaders from different faiths convened on 19 October, 2021 to exchange insights on how spirituality can not only provide resilience to climate impacts, but help boost adaptation.
Webinar Script: Dharma Master Hsin Tao
Spirituality is like water, irrigating a multi-connected and mutually dependent and benefiting ecology, guiding us to love the earth together. This is the full script of Dharma Master Hsin Tao's speech during the webinar on 19 October, 2021 on water and spirituality for water adaptation.
Webinar: Water and Spirituality for Climate Adaptation
In this webinar, speakers discussed water-related spirituality as a source of inspiration and wisdom to cope with climate change impacts on the water cycle. This was a precursor to the dialogue among spiritual leaders to be held at the UN Water Decade Mid Term Review to be held in 2023.
Webinar: Accelerating Adaptation through Large Scale NbS
This webinar addressed the need for greater effort to identify a pipeline of large-scale NbS projects that accelerate adaptation, and at the same time build the resilience of communities. Speakers presented cases followed by a panel discussion.
Webinar: Floating Development
Introducing the concept of floating development, speakers provided examples from Europe and Asia on how this is a viable and ecologically better alternative to land reclamation. These included floating power generation systems, recreational and commercial spaces, etc.
Institutional Strengthening for Climate Adaptation through Local Regulation
This blog explains why a legal basis is needed to legitimize and encourage local government in Indonesia to develop climate adaptation programs and actions with budget allocation.
Ouranos
Ouranos is a Canadian non-profit organization that engages in focused, applied science in support of sound decisions related to climate change and its impacts.
Building resilience through ecosystem restoration in Somali Regional State, Ethiopia
The Atlas maps the landscape and illustrates challenges and opportunities for sustainable resource management. The analysis is a roadmap to reverse environmental degradation.
Stockholm Environment Institute
We are an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.