A World With Zero Hunger Needs Resilience to Climate Change

This infographic shows how more frequent and intense droughts and floods affect the most vulnerable households at risk of hunger, and what World Food Programme is doing to help people adapt and build resilience to climate change.

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Organization: WFP

Theme: Other

Topic: Agriculture and Food, Environment

Type of material: Audio-Visual Resource

Publication date: 2015

Language: English, Spanish, French

How to Do – Measuring Climate Resilience

This guidance document shows how to apply the concept of ‘climate resilience’ in an International Fund for Aricultural Development supported investment project and how to measure it. It is a tool for t staff and partners involved in investment projects with climate resilience objectives. 

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Organization: IFAD

Theme: Adaptation

Topic: Economic and Development Planning, Environment, Adaptation, Ecosystems

Type of material: Guidance Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

How to Do – Fisheries, Aquaculture and Climate Change

This guidance document describes a range of multiple-benefit options for integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into interventions in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. Most of the proposed measures have been proven time and again in practice to provide a range of benefits and increase the resilience of small-scale fishers and fish farmers, as well as the ecosystems on which they rely.

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Organization: IFAD

Theme: Adaptation

Topic: Agriculture and Food, Environment, Adaptation, Ecosystems, Mitigation

Type of material: Guidance Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Food Insecurity and Climate Change

This poster provides a window on the global future up to the 2080s, looking at how climate change may affect future vulnerability to food insecurity.

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Organization: WFP, Met Office Hadley Centre

Theme: Adaptation

Topic: Agriculture and Food, Environment, Adaptation, Mitigation, COP23 List of UN Publications

Type of material: Audio-Visual Resource

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Inter-American Development Bank Annual Report 2014: The Year in Review

This activity report provides a review of the Bank’s operations in 2014 (loans, guarantees and grants). The second volume contains the full set of the financial statements of the Bank’s resources.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Finance, Transport, Urban, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Activity Report

Publication date: 2015

Language: English, Spanish, French

Climate Change Risk Management Options for the Tourism Sector

This brief dentifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investment’s for the tourism sector. 

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Tourism, Risk Reduction/Management, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Climate Change Risk Management Options for the Transportation Sector

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investment’s for the transportation sector.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Transport, Risk Reduction/Management, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Climate Change Risk Management Options for the Energy Sector

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank’s investments for the energy sector.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Energy, Environment, Risk Reduction/Management, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Climate Change Risk Management Options for the Agriculture Sector

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank’s investments for the agriculture sector.
 

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Agriculture and Food, Environment, Water, Risk Reduction/Management, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Local Vulnerability Indicators and Adaptation to Climate Change: A Survey

This analytical document examines different aspects of vulnerability indexes to climate change, and emphasizes the importance of deriving vulnerability measures from sector-specific local studies.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Water, Adaptation, Risk Reduction/Management, Governance – Territorial and Local

Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

What Is Climate Change?

This guidance document presents an overview of climate change issues and how it can potentially affect individuals’lifestyles. 

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Education

Topic: Education, Environment, Adaptation

Type of material: Guidance Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English, Spanish

Climate Change Impacts on Birth Outcomes in Brazil

This analytical document examines the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil to predict the potential impact of climate change. 

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Organization: IDB, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, São Paulo University

Theme: Health

Topic: Environment, Health, Economic Analysis, Human Rights and Justice, Governance – Territorial and Local

Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document

Publication date: 2014

Language: English

Vulnerability Indicators of Adaptation to Climate Change and Policy Implications for Investment Projects

This analytical document examines the literature of vulnerability indicators and explores their significance for effective adaptation to climate change using a selected sample of development projects from the Inter-American Development Bank.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Forestry, Water, Adaptation, Governance – General

Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Agriculture and Adaptation to Climate Change: The Role of Insurance in Risk Management: The Case of Colombia

This analytical document examines the market constraints on the development of the agricultural insurance market in Colombia. The document also provides recommendations to fulfill its potential as a risk management tool in the country.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Agriculture and Food, Environment, Finance, Risk Reduction/Management, Governance – Territorial and Local

Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Climate Change Risk Management Options for the Water and Sanitation Sector

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into the Inter-American Development Bank’s investments for the water and sanitation sector.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Finance, Water, Adaptation, Risk Reduction/Management, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Climate Change Risk Management Options for the Urban Infrastructure Sector

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank’s investments for the urban infrastructure sector. 

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Other

Topic: Environment, Finance, Urban, Mitigation, Risk Reduction/Management, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2015

Climate Change Adaptation Case Study: Climate Change Impacts during Droughts on the City of Trujillo, Peru

This guidance document shows an initial portfolio of adaptation case studies to establish specific policies of adaptation to climate change with respect to impacts on water resources. The case studies are based on on-going Inter-American Development Bank activities in the Latin American region, and they are aiming at providing local information and analyses assisting the local water resources managers.

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Adaptation

Topic: Environment, Water, Adaptation, Governance – Territorial and Local

Type of material: Guidance Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English, Spanish

World Heritage and Tourism in A Changing Climate

This analytical document provides an overview of the increasing vulnerability of Word Heritage sites to climate change impacts as well as the potential implications on global tourism. The report also examines the relationship between World Heritage and tourism, and how climate change is likely to exacerbate problems caused by unplanned tourism development and uncontrolled or poorly managed visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses.

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Theme: Adaptation

Topic: Environment, Tourism, Adaptation, Mitigation, Governance – General

Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document

Publication date: 2016

Language: English

Our Climate is Changing: Lesson Plans for Children and Youth

This guidance document seeks to encourage children and youth to use their creativity and energy to come up with feasible, sustainable, long-term strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Each set of lesson plans includes an introductory text about the topic that can serve as background material for the teacher or as a text for older students. 

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Organization: IDB

Theme: Education

Topic: Education, Environment, Children, Capacity Development

Type of material: Guidance Document

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Water Partnership Program FY15 Annual Report: A Waterway to Resilience

This activity report highlights the program’s progress and results during Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15). This year’s report showcases three focus areas in water: building resilience; helping service providers become more efficient and sustainable; and using integrated approaches to confront complexity. 

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Organization: WB

Theme: Adaptation

Topic: Environment, Finance, Water, Adaptation

Type of material: Activity Report

Publication date: 2016

Language: English