SREX: Lessons for Latin America & the Caribbean
This brief, SREX: Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Resource
1st November 2012
SREX: Lessons for Africa
This brief, SREX: Lessons for Africa, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Africa.
Feature
14th October 2012
Assessing the impacts of disasters on children
On the International Day for Disaster Reduction - Mudasser Siddiqui, South Asia DRM Specialist from Plan International explains the unique vulnerabilities of young people when impacted by climate-related disasters.
A new perspective on adaptation prioritisation and costing in the Mekong region
Caitlin Peterson, Martin Ross, and Caitlin Corner-Dolloff from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) discuss how a CDKN research project in the Greater Mekong sub-region is finding new ways to connect local priorities, to Government plans and resources.
Feature
23rd September 2012
Moving Renewable Energy Forward in Nicaragua
In addition to identifying barriers, the workshop in Nicaragua highlighted past successes in the country in order to gain insight on renewable energy ‘enablers,’ or frameworks, policies and measures that facilitate renewable energy development.
The projects aims to provide a regional model for the integration of climate change information into risk reduction and rural development planning at the landscape scale that takes stakeholder perceptions, aspiration, and constraints more fully into account while bringing DRR and CCA processes into closer interaction within institutional and policy spaces.
How Nepal's mountain dwellers are adapting to climate change
Nepali journalist Saroj Dhakal interviews British Council Climate Champion, Saurav Dhakal on his experience of completing the Great Himalayan Trail and what he thinks is needed to promote climate compatible development in the region.
