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Factsheet: overview of disaster risk reduction in the Arab region
UNDP, 2013This publication provides a short overview of disaster risk reduction in the Arab region. It focuses on the major risks, why in particular cities are at risk and what are the drivers of disaster risk in the region. Further, the factsheet provides information about the achievements and challenges for the future.
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Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/31693_drrfactsheetarabregionfinal.pdf
Published by: UNDP ; 2013
This publication provides a short overview of disaster risk reduction in the Arab region. It focuses on the major risks, why in particular cities are at risk and what are the drivers of disaster risk in the region. Further, the factsheet provides information about the achievements and challenges for the future.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Climate change ; Urban zone management ; Tropical cyclone ; Drought ; Earthquake ; Flood ; Heat wave ; Landslide ; Tsunami ; Wildfire ; Region I - Africa ; Region II - Asia ; Algeria ; Bahrain ; Comoros ; Djibouti ; Egypt ; Iraq ; Jordan ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Libya (State of) ; Mauritania ; Morocco ; Oman ; Palestinian Authority ; Qatar ; Saudi Arabia ; Somalia ; Sudan ; Syrian Arab Republic ; Tunisia ; United Arab Emirates ; Yemen
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Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up, low-carbon energy
This report draws on the experiences of six countries (India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and Tunisia) to examine how public climate finance can help meet the significant investment needs of developing countries by creating attractive conditions for scaled-up investment in low carbon energy. Building on lessons from the case studies, it provides a set of key lessons and insights for readiness. The report develops a framework to identify and prioritise readiness activities that will require public financial support to create the conditions necessary to scale-up investments in rene ...
Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up, low-carbon energy
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Available online: http://pdf.wri.org/mobilizing_climate_investment.pdf
Clifford Polycarp ; Louise Brown ; Xing Fu-Bertaux ; World Resources Institute
Published by: WRI ; 2013This report draws on the experiences of six countries (India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and Tunisia) to examine how public climate finance can help meet the significant investment needs of developing countries by creating attractive conditions for scaled-up investment in low carbon energy. Building on lessons from the case studies, it provides a set of key lessons and insights for readiness. The report develops a framework to identify and prioritise readiness activities that will require public financial support to create the conditions necessary to scale-up investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency, i.e. low carbon energy. The findings are intended to inform the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as it attempts to identify how best to support a paradigm shift toward low emission and climate resilient development pathways.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Financing climate change action ; Green economy ; Case/ Case study ; India ; Indonesia ; Mexico ; South Africa ; Thailand ; Tunisia
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Chapter 13 - Climate change adaptation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa: foundations for the future : In "Climate Change - Realities, Impacts Over Ice Cap, Sea Level and Risks"
Cooper P.J.M - 2013This book chapter from 'Climate change - realities, impacts over ice cap, sea level and risks' (ed. Singh, B. R.) argues that although many institutions across sub-Saharan Africa are engaged in initiatives targeted towards adapting rainfed agriculture to climate change, this also presents complex research and policy challenges. Given the generally low impact of agricultural research across the region on improving the welfare of rainfed farmers, a comprehensive strategy is required if the considerably more complex challenge of adapting agriculture to future climate change is to successful. The ...
Chapter 13 - Climate change adaptation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa: foundations for the future: In "Climate Change - Realities, Impacts Over Ice Cap, Sea Level and Risks"
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Available online: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/42002/InTech-Climate_change_adaptation_strategies [...]
This book chapter from 'Climate change - realities, impacts over ice cap, sea level and risks' (ed. Singh, B. R.) argues that although many institutions across sub-Saharan Africa are engaged in initiatives targeted towards adapting rainfed agriculture to climate change, this also presents complex research and policy challenges. Given the generally low impact of agricultural research across the region on improving the welfare of rainfed farmers, a comprehensive strategy is required if the considerably more complex challenge of adapting agriculture to future climate change is to successful. The chapter provides a brief assessment of the complexities and challenges and describes the research approach to address these challenges. The authors conclude that to ensure that African researches have strong research capabilities, there needs to be investments in: ways to improve access to information; ways to enhance research capacity; and ways to enhance the impact of the research undertaken.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Climate policies ; Region I - Africa
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Climate legislation study: a review of climate change legislation in 33 countries
CDKN, 2013This review of climate change legislation in 33 countries shows that developing countries are leading action on climate change. Overall, there has been significant progress in the climate and/or energy-related legislation of almost all major economies, but a great amount of the 2012 effort took place in emerging countries. In particular, among major economies Mexico and China are leading the action against climate change thanks to their recent steps to cut carbon emissions and raise energy efficiency. The study aims to support legislators advancing climate-related legislation by providing deta ...
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Available online: http://www.globeinternational.org/images/climate-study/3rd_GLOBE_Report.pdf
Published by: CDKN ; 2013 (3rd edition)
This review of climate change legislation in 33 countries shows that developing countries are leading action on climate change. Overall, there has been significant progress in the climate and/or energy-related legislation of almost all major economies, but a great amount of the 2012 effort took place in emerging countries. In particular, among major economies Mexico and China are leading the action against climate change thanks to their recent steps to cut carbon emissions and raise energy efficiency. The study aims to support legislators advancing climate-related legislation by providing detailed information on existing legislation to help identify gaps, best practice and encourage peer-to-peer learning. It also hopes to provide positive momentum to the international climate change negotiations. According to the review, legislative action at the national level is a fundamental prerequisite to achieving global climate change mitigation goals.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Climate change - Mitigation ; Climate policies ; Argentina ; Australia ; Bangladesh ; Brazil ; Canada ; Chile ; Colombia ; El Salvador ; Ethiopia ; European Union ; France ; Germany ; India ; Indonesia ; Italy ; Jamaica ; Japan ; Kenya ; Mexico ; Mozambique ; Nepal ; Pakistan ; Peru ; Philippines ; Poland ; Russian Federation ; Rwanda ; South Africa ; Republic of Korea ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; United States of America ; Viet Nam
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New approaches to promoting flexible and forward-looking decision making : insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’
Jones Lindsey; Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA); Overseas Development Institute (ODI); et al. - ODI, 2013This paper addresses the difficult decisions policy-makers are often tasked with in the face of an uncertain future outlook. It hopes to provide an introduction to many of the key concepts of climate change adaptation or ‘serious games’. More importantly it aims to highlight the synergies between the three disciplines and lay the foundations for further elaboration and insight. All this is while maintaining the overarching goal of empowering actors in enhancing their capabilities and level of agency to deal with climate change and uncertainty. It asks if the infrastructural investments will st ...
New approaches to promoting flexible and forward-looking decision making: insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’
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Available online: http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-fil [...]
Lindsey Jones ; Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom) ; Abaci Partnership ; Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Centre
Published by: ODI ; 2013This paper addresses the difficult decisions policy-makers are often tasked with in the face of an uncertain future outlook. It hopes to provide an introduction to many of the key concepts of climate change adaptation or ‘serious games’. More importantly it aims to highlight the synergies between the three disciplines and lay the foundations for further elaboration and insight. All this is while maintaining the overarching goal of empowering actors in enhancing their capabilities and level of agency to deal with climate change and uncertainty. It asks if the infrastructural investments will still be relevant in 25 years, what new markets are likely to emerge in the medium term, and how a gradual increase in average temperatures over the coming decades will affect livelihood security.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Adaptation ; Climate policies ; Ethiopia ; Mozambique ; Uganda
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The political economy of local adaptation planning : exploring barriers to flexible and forward-looking decision making in three districts in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
Jones Lindsey; Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA); Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - ODI, 2013This paper explores key institutional barriers in preventing effective Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM) within development policy and programming. More specifically, it explores the influence of various institutional and sociopolitical drivers on the ability of district governance processes to adapt to change and uncertainty. To do this, it synthesises research findings from two phases of research conducted by the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA).
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When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
This report focuses on the links between conditions of vulnerability and risks associated with the nexus of natural disasters, conflict and fragility. It also recognises that any given context will be mired by an even more complex array of intersecting risks. For example, in 2011, drought, and food and political insecurity in East Africa contributed to a full-scale humanitarian crisis. A combination of natural hazards, conflict and fragility provided a recipe for human suffering.
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ICTs for climate change adaptation in Africa
This report identifies positive and potentially replicable practice in the use of ICTs for climate change adaptation, drawing on case studies in three countries-Senegal, Uganda and Malawi. It explores the barriers, opportunities, implementation risks and challenges concerning the use of ICTs for adaptation to climate change, and assessed the stakeholders involved.
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Planning, connecting, and financing cities-now: priorities for city leaders
World Bank, 2013This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can prevent their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures, including: improving living conditions, especially in slums and hazard-prone areas; bridging the divided cities (inclusion); expanding the coverage and quality of basic infrastructure services; and managing the city’s physical form.
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Le MDP en Afrique: financement et soutien
CCNUCC, 2013Dès 2006, les parties au protocole deKyoto ont reconnu l'importance d'une répartition équilibrée des projets MDP auniveau régional et salué la création du Cadre deNairobi, qui rassemble les organisations régionales et celles desNationsUnies pour faciliter l'accès à ce mécanisme.Ala lumière des avantages que le mécanisme de développement propre (MDP) peut apporter aux régions moins développées, les partenaires du Cadre deNairobi, entre autres, ont commencé à financer des programmes d’assistance technique et de renforcement des capacités pour le MDP, particulièrement enAfrique. Les pages suivant ...
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One planet. One civilization: a film by Gaël Derive
Bulletin, Vol. 61(1). WMO, 2012People from Ethiopia, Nepal, Kiribati, Brazil, Nunavut and Bangladesh – their common link: they share the same planet and civilization.
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Reaching the Last Mile with Mobile Weather Alert : the user-interface platform in action
Bulletin, Vol. 61(1). WMO, 2012Hundreds of thousands of lives, and livelihoods, are threatened and lost every year in Africa due to the impacts of climate variability and severe weather conditions.
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El tiempo, el clima y el agua, motores de nuestro futuro
Todos los años, el 23 de marzo, la OMM conmemora la entrada en vigor, en 1950, del Convenio de la OMM en virtud del cual se creó la Organización.
El tema elegido para el Día Meteorológico Mundial de 2012 es El tiempo, el clima y el agua, motores de nuestro futuro, que trata esencialmente de la importante labor que desempeñan los servicios meteorológicos, climáticos e hidrológicos para potenciar un futuro sostenible para nuestra generación
y las venideras.
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WMO Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP) Mission to the Burundi Hydrometeorological Department, Institut Géographique du Burundi (BHMD / IGEBU)
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Twin report on fairtrade and climate change adaptation
IIED, 2012This paper explores the links between farmer organisations, Fairtrade and adaptation to climate change, and the extent to which such institutions and market arrangements can enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. It looks in detail at two Fairtrade producer organisations in Uganda and Malawi and asserts that joining a producer organisation and Fairtrade certification can strengthen the capacity of smallholders to adapt to climate change on several fronts. It also introduces some key enabling factors such as higher income, access to newer technologies, better farmer training, and ...
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