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Adaptation toolkit. Integrating adaptation to climate change into secure livelihoods
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global and specific national poverty reduction objectives will be severely hampered.DocumentAdaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical storms. Climate change threatens to undermine poorer countries to absorb loss and recover from disaster impacts.DocumentUNISDR Briefing Note 2 - Adaptation to climate change by reducing disaster risks: country practices and lessons
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2009With the threat of increased disasters from climate change, many countries are already taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to weather and climatic hazards. This Briefing Note reports on case studies of eight countries where national and local governments and civil society have worked to strengthen their disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions.DocumentSummary for policymakers. Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007This is a scientific assessment of the present impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and the capacity of these systems to adapt to vulnerability. It concerns the relationship between observed climate change and recent observed changes in the natural and human environment and is based largely on data sets from 1970.DocumentAddressing the challenge: recommendations and quality criteria for linking disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change
PreventionWeb, 2007Climate change is a fact and a threat to human society due to increases in temperature, variations in precipitation and intensive weather related extreme events. These call for the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). This study addresses the urgent need to link DRR and CCA and reflects on the opportunities and limitations.DocumentA climate risk management approach to disaster reduction and adaptation to climate change
United Nations Development Programme, 2002The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climate events.DocumentDisaster risk management in a changing climate. Discussion paper prepared for the World Conference on Distaster Reduction on behalf of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG)
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2005Climate change is a reality, not a distant possibility in the future. Weather-related disasters are exerting an increasing toll on developing and developed countries, destroying lives and livelihoods and hampering development processes. The World Conference on Disaster Reduction is a testimony that international cooperation is needed to prevent natural hazards from translating into disasters.DocumentClimate adaptation as risk management: limits and lessons from disaster risk reduction
International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 2009Adapting to climate change requires that risk management be integrated into development planning and practices. This paper identifies lessons and limits for climate change adaptation from disaster risk reduction.DocumentConvergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
PreventionWeb, 2008Development faces a growing threat from climate change. Yet despite the significant overlap, the respective agendas of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) have been left to evolve independently up until now.DocumentUNISDR Briefing Note 1 - Climate change and disaster risk reduction
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008Climate change and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are closely linked. Increased extreme weather events in the future are likely to increase the number and scale of disasters while the existing methods and tools of DRR provide powerful capacities for adaptation to climate change.Pages