Nepal Day Highlights Opportunities in Climate Change Adaptation

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and its Nepal partners organized a Nepal Day knowledge-sharing event on March 11 for enhancing climate resilience and adaptive capacity in Nepal. Dr. Andreas Schild, Director General of ICIMOD, called for a long-term perspective when addressing climate...

Adaptive capacity in the Solomon Islands

This is the story of one Red Cross society’s effort to incorporate climate change into its regular work, and what it found  on Pileni island – remote even by the standards of the Solomon Islands. In 2010 the Solomon Islands Red Cross (SIRC) began working with...

New publication: A framework for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments

The Indo-German development cooperation project Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India (CCA RAI) is pleased to announce the launch of its publication  “A Framework for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments”. The framework was developed by GIZ together with the Ministry of Environment, Forests and...

Strengthening local resilience to climate change

The challenge of climate change calls for action to assist vulnerable communities to cope and adapt. In keen awareness of this, numerous international CCA initiatives have emerged. Most of them involve large-scale, ‘high-tech’ infrastructure for physical protection. Such investments are often needed to deal with...

Pacific Islands Adapting to Climate Change (PACC) – Cook Island

The GEF assistance will be targeted at improving adaptive capacity to address climate change concerns at the national level and, at co-financing the implementation of pilots that reduce vulnerability to climate impacts which countries themselves have identified on the basis of nationally and scientifically endorsed assessments....