Activity 6 of the Adaptation Committee's (AC's) work plan requested the secretariat to compile a list of regional centres and networks working on adaptation. The AC is making this list available as part of its work on ways to strengthen the roles of regional institutions and UN agencies in supporting enhanced adaptation action in developing countries
Provides key information on available frameworks, methods and tools, and their special features. It is designed to assist Parties and other potential users in selecting the most appropriate methodology for assessments of impacts and vulnerability, and preparing for adaptation to climate change
An initiative under the Nairobi work programme to provide examples of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation, supplementing information to FCCC/SBSTA/ 2011/INF.8, mandated by the SBSTA at its thirty-fourth session under the Naiorbi work programme
Case studies on best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation as inputs for the technical paper mandated in paragraph 17of FCCC/SBSTA/2013/3.
Case studies on the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and assessing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change as inputs for the technical paper mandatedin paragraph 17 of FCCC/SBSTA/2013/3.
A web-based interface providing information on exisiting adaptation practices, requested by SBSTA (FCCC/SBSTA/2006/11) (paragraph 59)) and updated for the thirtieth session of the SBSTA
Provides detailed information on long-standing coping strategies/mechanisms, knowledge and experience from communities that have had to adapt specific hazards or climate conditions. This can help communities that may just be starting to experience such conditions, as a result of climate change
The NAPA Priorities database pages presents the list of ranked priority adaptation activities and projects, as well as short profiles of each activity or project, designed to facilitate the development of proposals for implementation. Projects are also arranged by sector
Provides detailed information on long-standing coping strategies/mechanisms, knowledge and experience from communities that have had to adapt to specific hazards or climate conditions. This can help communities that may just be starting to experience such conditions, as a result of climate change
Provides information provided by 46 organizations during the summer of 2013 on different ways in which organizations are currently responding to the increasingly challenging risks of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change
Maps organizations working on slow onset events - rising temperatures, desertification, loss of biodiversity, land and forest degradation, glacial retreat and related impacts, ocean acidification, sea level rise and salinization, as defined by COP decision 1/CP.16 and the scope of their current efforts