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Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk – A Guide for Community Assessments, Action Planning and Implementation
To ensure that projects and related activities are adequately targeted at reducing climate change vulnerabilities in communities, it is necessary to conduct Vulnerability and Risk Assessments (VRAs) to understand which people and which areas are most at risk and why.
Unlocking Climate Finance in Asia-Pacific: Transitioning to a Sustainable Future
This paper provides an overview of the climate finance ecosystem in countries in the Asia-Pacific region and presents strategies to mobilize climate finance for the region’s transition to a sustainable future. The paper identifies challenges, including gaps in the climate information architecture, policy conflicts, global complexities, and emphasizes the need for coordinated action involving gover...
Climate stress testing in the financial industry
Climate-related risks for the financial sector have been discussed since the then-Governor of the Bank of England mentioned these risks as the tragedy of the horizon. Shortly after, research about stress-testing the impact of climate change on the financial sector was published. They use various methods that address the climate-related Value-at Risk and other financial risks. We conducted a system...
Green monetary policy to combat climate change: Theory and evidence of selective credit control
Recognizing climate change as a formidable threat to global economic stability, the study underscores the inadequacies of existing fiscal tools, such as carbon taxes and carbon trading, in effectively mitigating carbon emissions and explores the potential impact of climate-related uncertainties on the global financial and monetary system. The paper delineates the necessity of integrating environme...
Adapting to Climate Change in East Africa: A Strategic Approach
This paper provides an overview of the likely impacts of climate change in three least developed countries in East Africa: Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the coming decades, climate change is likely to alter temperatures and distribution of rainfall, contribute to sea-level rise and increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in East Africa. In fact, many widespread climatic ch...
Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities
This guidebook presents a framework for climate adaptation planning for coastal cities, large and small, focused on the central roles of citizens, public officials, and planners. The book is designed to help all stakeholders in coastal cities understand and develop effective adaptation measures in a sustainable way. Within a framework of eight key planning steps, guidance is provided for stakehold...
Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: From strategy development to implementation
This book provides a comprehensive overview of key elements required for effective analysis and assessment of climate change impacts, economic cost-benefit analysis, communication processes and creation and transfer of knowledge, governance issues and implementation of related policies. It describes the results achieved by the BaltCICA (www.baltcica.org) project whose contributors come from the sc...
This Changes Everything
According to Naomi Klein, the status quo is no longer an option. This book, which has also been turned into a documentary, outlines why the climate crisis is challenging the world to reshape the global economy and rethink political systems. Klein argues that acting on climate change is an opportunity for governments to turn our world on its head and one that we need to seize before it’s too late....
Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: From strategy development to implementation
This book provides a comprehensive overview of key elements required for effective analysis and assessment of climate change impacts, economic cost-benefit analysis, communication processes and creation and transfer of knowledge, governance issues and implementation of related policies. It describes the results achieved by the BaltCICA (www.baltcica.org) project whose contributors come from the sc...
Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental migration: A Policy Perspective
This paper presents IOM’s efforts to support vulnerable and mobile communities affected by environmental hazards through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) activities conducive to sustainable development.