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The majority of the world population lives in urban areas and the impacts of climate change come in various forms - increased incidence of heat waves, water shortages, storm surges, and floods affecting urban infrastructure and peoples’ livelihood.

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Best Practice / Lessons Learned | January 01, 2010

Recovery and Climate Change

The Guidance Notes on Recovery: Climate Change draws from documented experiences of past and present recovery efforts, collected through a desk review and consultations with relevant experts. The collected materials are presente...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Coastal Zone Management / Gender and Social Impacts / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Video | October 01, 2012

TED Talk: Georgetown Climate Center's Vicki Arroyo Calls for Adaptation Action

In this recently released talk presented at TEDGlobal, Vicki Arroyo outlines the case for building resilience: providing examples of actions underway and explaining why the time is now to make changes in how we design and plan our...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Communication and Awareness / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Announcement | April 01, 2013

Request for Proposal: Developing a Training Course on Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

USAID's ADAPT Asia-Pacific project is accepting new proposal until April 10, 2013. ADAPT Asia-Pacific intends to develop a training course dealing with climate change adaptation (CCA) in an urban context. It will focus on Asia, bu...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia

Report / Paper | March 15, 2013

Urban Climate Resilience Framework

This article describes an operational framework that indicates how characteristics of resilience can be synthesised from research efforts of many different disciplines. The conceptual framework provides practical guidance on build...

THEMES : Urban Areas and Infrastructure

All Countries, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia

March 15, 2013

TERI-Rockefeller International Workshop on Resilient Cities, Jan. 29, 2013, New Delhi, India,

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly conducted a workshop on “Resilient Cities-Experie...

THEMES : Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Report / Paper | March 15, 2013

A Systems Approach to Meeting the Challenges of Urban Climate Change

This article identifies the future challenges that cities face in their ability to create well-being, particularly for urban poor communities, as a result of the compound effect generated by climate change. It suggests that action...

THEMES : Urban Areas and Infrastructure

All Countries, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia

Journal / Periodical | March 07, 2013

Mainstreaming of climate change in road transport sector

Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. It includes major changes in climatic parameters like temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other eff...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Mountainous Regions / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Nepal

March 05, 2013

United States Launches Project to Build Community Resilience to Climate Change in the Pacific

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Coastal Community Adaptation Project (C-CAP), a new fi...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Coastal Zone Management / Communication and Awareness / Community Based Adaptation / Natural Resources and Agriculture / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Pacific

Journal / Periodical | February 15, 2013

Why Asia’s growing coastal cities must invest in climate resilience

I recently attended the “Coastal Cities At Risk 2013” conference organized by the Manila Observatory and the Coastal Cities at Risk Initiative supported by the Canadian Government. As many remarked, the venue was quite apt because...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Coastal Zone Management / Disaster Risk Reduction / Forecast and Assessment / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Southeast Asia

November 08, 2012

Rockefeller Foundation Extends US$1.75 Mn Grant to Expand Resilience Programme to 40 New Cities

The New York-based Rockefeller Foundation has extended a US$1.75 million grant to allow up to 40 more cities in Asia to benefit fr...

THEMES : Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Urban Areas and Infrastructure

Recovery and Climate Change

TED Talk: Georgetown Climate Center's Vicki Arroyo Calls for Adaptation Action

Request for Proposal: Developing a Training Course on Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

Urban Climate Resilience Framework

A Systems Approach to Meeting the Challenges of Urban Climate Change

Mainstreaming of climate change in road transport sector

Why Asia’s growing coastal cities must invest in climate resilience

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