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Assessing the costs of climate change and adaptation in South Asia
This report synthesizes the results of country and sector studies on the economic costs and benefits of unilateral and regional actions on climate change in ADB’s six South Asia developing members, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study takes into account the different scenarios and impacts projected across vulnerable sectors and estimates the total economic loss throughout the 21st century and amount of funding required for adaptation measures to avert such potential losses. It is envisioned to strengthen decision-making capacities and improve understa ...
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Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/38999_assessingcostsclimatechangeandadapt.pdf
Ahmed Mahfuz ; Suphachalasai Suphachol ; Asian Development Bank
Published by: ADB ; 2014This report synthesizes the results of country and sector studies on the economic costs and benefits of unilateral and regional actions on climate change in ADB’s six South Asia developing members, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study takes into account the different scenarios and impacts projected across vulnerable sectors and estimates the total economic loss throughout the 21st century and amount of funding required for adaptation measures to avert such potential losses. It is envisioned to strengthen decision-making capacities and improve understanding of the economics of climate change for the countries in South Asia.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)ISBN (or other code): 978-92-9254-511-6
Tags: Climate change ; Disaster Risk Financing, Disaster risk transfer ; Bangladesh ; Bhutan ; India ; Maldives ; Nepal ; Sri Lanka
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Retrospective evaluation of the GFDRR program in a sample of disaster-prone countries
DARA - Spain, 2014This evaluation presents evidence of the Secretariat of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)'s improvements in disaster risk management (DRM) performance in five countries (Guatemala, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) and analyzes the implications for the theoretical model that sustains its approach and the current Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework.
In particular, the evaluation sought to fulfill following objectives: (a) identify if program outputs are contributing to expected (and unexpected) improvements in DRM performance in a sample of ...
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Available online: http://resources.daraint.org/gfdrr/retrospective_evaluation_report.pdf
Published by: DARA - Spain ; 2014
This evaluation presents evidence of the Secretariat of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)'s improvements in disaster risk management (DRM) performance in five countries (Guatemala, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) and analyzes the implications for the theoretical model that sustains its approach and the current Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework.
In particular, the evaluation sought to fulfill following objectives: (a) identify if program outputs are contributing to expected (and unexpected) improvements in DRM performance in a sample of priority, disaster-prone countries participating in the GFDRR program; (b) test whether the assumptions made in defining expected program effects hold true; and (c) draw lessons learned and make recommendations on: (i) the M&E Framework, including whether (and how) to adjust indicators for improved program design and evaluation; and (ii) the development of the program theory model.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Guatemala ; Malawi ; Nepal ; Sri Lanka ; Viet Nam
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Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans: Lessons from Sri Lanka
This case study aims to illustrate how the Western Province in Sri Lanka is promoting urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a strategy to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while at the same time enhancing urban liveability and livelihoods. Key messages include that the province is promoting the rehabilitation of flood zones through their productive use as a strategy to improve storm water infiltration and mitigate flood risks. It is recommended that future upscaling of these interventions will need new urban design concepts and the development of a provincial climate change ...
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Available online: http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SriLanka_Inside_Story_final_web-res.p [...]
Published by: CDKN ; 2014
This case study aims to illustrate how the Western Province in Sri Lanka is promoting urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a strategy to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while at the same time enhancing urban liveability and livelihoods. Key messages include that the province is promoting the rehabilitation of flood zones through their productive use as a strategy to improve storm water infiltration and mitigate flood risks. It is recommended that future upscaling of these interventions will need new urban design concepts and the development of a provincial climate change action plan, in parallel with a revision of local and national policies. The paper argues that achieving this progress on policy will require improved impact monitoring and awareness raising at all levels of government, partnership and capacity building and local financing.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Agroclimatology ; Food Safety ; Climate change ; Sri Lanka
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Fragile States 2013: Resource flows and trends in fragile states
By 2015, half of the world’s people living on less than USD 1.25 a day will be in fragile states. While poverty has decreased globally, progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 is slower in fragile states than in other developing countries. Fragile states are also off-track to meet the rest of the MDGs by 2015.
Fragile situations became a central concern of the international development and security agenda in the 1990s. Since then, powerful forces have been influencing the causes and manifestations of fragility, including the combination of democratic aspirations, new te ...
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Available online: https://www.oecd.org/dac/fragile-states-9789264190399-en.htm
Published by: OECD ; 2012
By 2015, half of the world’s people living on less than USD 1.25 a day will be in fragile states. While poverty has decreased globally, progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 is slower in fragile states than in other developing countries. Fragile states are also off-track to meet the rest of the MDGs by 2015.
Fragile situations became a central concern of the international development and security agenda in the 1990s. Since then, powerful forces have been influencing the causes and manifestations of fragility, including the combination of democratic aspirations, new technologies, demographic shifts and climate change. The last five years have been especially tumultuous, encompassing the 2008 food, fuel and financial crisis and the Arab Spring, which began in 2011.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate change ; Conflict ; Social and Economic development ; Democratic People's Republic of Korea ; Nepal ; Kyrgyzstan ; Iran, Islamic Republic of ; Iraq ; Georgia ; Eritrea ; Sudan ; Chad ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Niger ; Nigeria ; Guinea ; Haiti ; Guinea-Bissau ; Sierra Leone ; Liberia ; Togo ; Cameroon ; Angola ; Central African Republic ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Zimbabwe ; Rwanda ; Burundi ; Uganda ; Ethiopia ; Malawi ; Kenya ; Comoros ; Somalia ; Yemen ; Afghanistan ; Pakistan ; Sri Lanka ; Bangladesh ; Myanmar ; Timor-Leste ; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Solomon Islands ; Marshall Islands ; Kiribati ; West Bank and Gaza ; Kosovo
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Disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change: experience from German development cooperation
German Government, 2012This publication aims to pinpoint commonalities between disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change. It describes the experience gathered from German development cooperation’s work in seven countries, which we see as a stimulus to aim for more effective and efficient interaction between the two fields and to work towards a significant reduction of risk in our partner countries by implementing risk management measures adapted to the respective conditions.
Disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change: experience from German development cooperation
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Available online: http://star-www.giz.de/fetch/a0k0m4Lg01o0QH00aX/giz2012-0275en-disaster-risk-man [...]
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit ; Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Published by: German Government ; 2012This publication aims to pinpoint commonalities between disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change. It describes the experience gathered from German development cooperation’s work in seven countries, which we see as a stimulus to aim for more effective and efficient interaction between the two fields and to work towards a significant reduction of risk in our partner countries by implementing risk management measures adapted to the respective conditions.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Climate change ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Food Safety ; Agroclimatology ; Urban zone ; Ethiopia ; Germany ; Mozambique ; Nicaragua ; Peru ; Sri Lanka ; Viet Nam ; Region IV - North America, Central America and the Caribbean ; Region III - South America
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CGIAR Working paper, 23. Impacts of climate change on the agricultural and aquatic systems and natural resources within the CGIAR’s mandate
CCAFS, 2012The document attempts to distil what is currently known about the likely impacts of climate change on the commodities and natural resources that comprise the mandate of CGIAR and its 15 Centres. It was designed as one background document for a review carried out by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) at the behest of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on what is known about the likely effects of climate change on food security and nutrition, with a focus on the most affected and vulnerable regions and populations. A total of 25 summaries covering 22 ...
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Climate vulnerability monitor
DARA, 2012The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is a leading global cause of death. Harm is most acute for poor and vulnerable groups but no country is spared either the costs of inaction or the benefits of an alternative path.
Commissioned by the world’s most vulnerable countries and backed by high-level and technical panels, the new Monitor estimates human and economic impacts of climate change and the carbon economy for 184 countries in 2010 and 2030, across 34 indicators.
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Community managed disaster risk reduction in high altitude regions: In Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 85, June 2012
AIDMI, 2012This document evaluates the design of the eight missions of India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), which were created to advance India's development and define its approach to climate mitigation and adaptation: (i) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture; (ii) National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency; (iii) National Mission for a Green India; (iv) National Mission on Sustainable Habitat; (v) National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem; (vi) National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change; (vii) National Solar Mission; and (viii) National Wate ...
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Empirical analysis of temperature change in Sri Lanka during the last 140 years (1871-2010)
Sujeewa Kanda Durage; Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology ; College of Science - University of the Philippines, 2011Climatologists and meteorologists in Sri Lanka observe that ground temperature measurements in many weather stations have risen and people are experiencing more episodes of warmer weather. Sri Lanka is a country vulnerable to warming or rise in temperature; in particular its economic development is mostly dependent on agriculture, which can be severely affected by large and abrupt changes in temperature. This study was carried out to detect and characterize changes in surface temperature in the last 140 years, as a precursor of climate change in Sri Lanka. Daily maximum and minimum temperature ...
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WCDMP, 74. Regional Workshop on Climate Monitoring and Analysis of Climate Variability; followed by: implementation of Climate Watch System in RA II with focus on Monsoon affected areas
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Panel news : WMO/ ESCAP Panel on tropical cyclone
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Panel on tropical cyclones ; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) - WMO, 1988
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Final report of the Meeting of Experts on Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Economic Commission for Asia and the far East (ECAFE) - WMO, 1970
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