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A transition approach to poverty reduction and climate finance: The missing link to implementation
The present paper is a product of the Global Council for Sustainable Development Goal 1. It proposes principles and a framework to guide policy and financing options on adapting to life in a changing climate and a green transition, while achieving poverty reduction goals. These principles reveal the need to take specific development contexts into account when designing strategies, policies and fin...
10 Things to Know About Climate Finance: 2024 New Collective Quantified Goal Edition
10 Things to Know about Climate Finance: 2024 New Collective Quantified Goal Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the state of climate finance, focusing on the critical role of multilateral climate funds in supporting developing countries' efforts to address climate change. It highlights the importance of the new collective quantified goal (NCQG) on climate finance, which must be set by 20...
DESIGNING CLIMATE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS
This document can be used as a guide and provides examples on methods for CVAs that effectively address specific goals and development challenges. The first section provides an overview of typical CVA objectives and summarizes relevant vulnerability assessment methods to orient the reader to the elements of a CVA. The second section provides a decision tree to guide users through typical CVA quest...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: An Evaluation of Social Dimension
Climate change vulnerability is the function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of its natural and socioeconomic systems. Following spatial “scale” of the assessment, administrative-territorial units were selected for this study. A field survey questionnaire was used to collect data for the study based on the sample size of 500 questionnaires that was administered to household heads i...
Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The report recognizes the interactions of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies, and integrates across the natural, ecological, ...
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change for Bangladesh
Bangladesh faces many challenges. So long it has been mainly the traditional ones of socio economic development and eradication of poverty. Environment as a major factor in this process has only recently entered the scene. But even before environmental considerations in the development process has become the normal practice, the spectre of climate change has reared its ugly head. While Bangladesh...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: An Evolution of Conceptual Thinking
Vulnerability is an emerging concept for climate science and policy. Over the past decade, efforts to assess vulnerability to climate change triggered a process of theory development and assessment practice, which is reflected in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This paper reviews the historical development of the conceptual ideas underpinning assessments of vul...
Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes.
Nationwide Climate Vulnerability Assessment Bangladesh
This assessment was led by a team of international and national experts and was conducted through a systematic step by step approach applying participatory methods. The climate vulnerability was assessed for eight sectors at the Upazila level: Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Navigation, Transport and Infrastructure, Water Resources, Biodiversity, Natural Disasters and Human Health. With this, t...
Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis
The Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) is a CARE tool used to gather and analyze information on community-level vulnerabilities to and capacities for climate change. It informs the identification of actions, at the community level or more broadly, that support communities in increasing their resilience to climate change.