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Traditional knowledge has proven to be compatible with scientific knowledge, and despite its local nature, it includes techniques that demonstrate great potential to meet the challenges of climate change expected over the coming d...

This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy opinions may impact LAC. It analyses not only how REDD+ may affect...

Wealthy nations have committed to support developing countries to establish National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) that identify long-term priorities for responding to climate change challenges. But how and when will this support be giv...

This article sets out the policy, legislative and judicial responses to coastal adaptation in the Netherlands, England, and Australia. It identifies and discusses elements of the international and domestic frameworks that are cons...

This paper published in the journal Sustainabilityfocuses on lessons learned from the ClimateChange Adaptation and Development Programme(CC DARE), which was jointly implemented by theUN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNDevel...

This three-part series authored by award-winningscience journalist John Carey and commissioned bythe Pew Center on Global Climate Change, reportson the link between extreme weather and climatechange. The series details the impacts...

The work presented in this PhD thesis has not been carried out within a single, well-defined project. Instead, it integrates the results of a number of studies conducted from 1994 onwards, each of which had different clients and o...

Scientists are clear that climate change is happening, and that it is due to emissions of greenhouse gases produced largely by industrialised countries. Those likely to be worst affected are the world’s poorest countries, especial...

Climate change presents additional obstacles to ending poverty and achieving social justice. Rising temperatures, increasingly erratic rainfall, and more frequent and severe floods, cyclones and droughts all have significant conse...

Scientific information on the impacts of climate change is an essential prerequisite for successful adaptation. Therefore, GTZ has collaborated with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research to develop this practitioner’s manu...