Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

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Project : Agriculture, Vulnerability and Adaptation (AVA) - A methodology for measuring the vulnerability of the agriculture sector

Colombia’s agricultural sector is particularly vulnerable to climate changes forecast for the coming decades. The nation therefore needs to shape strategies that can enhance the the sector’s resilience to climate change.

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Project : Addressing the vulnerability of the energy sector to the impacts of climate change in Central Asia

This project will undertake a study on the vulnerability of the energy sector to the impacts of climate change in Tajikistan and develop an innovative methodology for this process. It will add a regional overview to highlight the trans-boundary issues. The studies will assess Climate Risk Assessment of Energy Infrastructure, Climate Risk Mitigation and Adaptation and Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Climate Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies.

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Project : Enabling IPLAN24

The Ethiopian Environmental Protection Agency (through DFID Ethiopia) asked CDKN to provide procurement and programme management services to enable the delivery of IPLAN24.

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31st August 2012
Gender and climate change - iconic stories from South Asia Mairi Dupar of CDKN discusses which stories on women and climate change should be grabbing the headlines.
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30th August 2012
Colombia’s vulnerable agriculture – “Peak coffee” soon a reality? Coffee producers are already facing challenges as the yields decrease, owing to rising temperatures and more intense and unpredictable rains, partly due to global warming
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Project : Climate change and upstream development impacts on new hydropower projects in the Zambezi

The Southern African Power Pool’s (SAPP) has planned an integrated expansion which includes more than 6,300 MW of new large scale hydropower with at least another 6,500MW under discussion within the Zambezi River Basin. CDKN is supporting research that examines the interaction between climate change, irrigation and hydropower in the Basin.

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29th August 2012
Recognising the human element in extreme climate events Steven Price reports from the IPCC SREX meeting in Brazil on why we need to change our mindset about how best to manage “natural” disasters
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23rd August 2012
Planning ahead is a complex science The confounding planning agenda facing Cartagena and government authorities shows how legal and institutional factors can complicate adaptation planning, as Steven Price reports
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22nd August 2012
Mainstreaming climate change into the transport sector in Colombia CDKN are looking to procure someone with relevant local and international expertise to develop and implement the project “Mainstreaming Climate Change into the Transport Sector in Colombia’, including the participatory development of the Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Transport Sector.
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Project : Vulnerability and adaptation guidelines in Cartagena

The objective of this project was to integrate adaptation into climate change in city planning and in the management of key economic sectors.

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Project : Renewable Energy Forum

World Watch Institute provides the Renewable Energy Forum, initiative that seeks participation in topics such as Curr

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14th August 2012
The climate and gender game Janot Mendler de Suarez is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Games for a New Climate task force at the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, USA. Janot is collaborating with the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, which received CDKN support to develop 'serious games' to raise awareness of climate adaptation strategies. Here, Janot introduces a special ‘climate and gender game’ that builds on this work.