Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Climate adaptation relates is the process of adjusting in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate hazards, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. Climate change adaptation is closely related to disaster risk management as they both aim to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to disasters. Climate change as a risk driver refers to how changes in the global climate drive extreme weather events and disaster risk.


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Documents and publications

These guidelines are oriented to the needs of the decision-maker and provide a description of the range of mitigation options that need to
be considered when making efforts to reduce losses from flooding. The guidelines are designed to provide an

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½)
United Nations - Headquarters
Documents and publications

Toward the end of the twentieth century, it became evident to professionals working within the meterological arena that the world’s climate system was showing signs of change that could not be adequately explained in terms of natural variation. Since that

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Cambridge University Press
Documents and publications

This atlas condenses the history, causes, dangers and scientific background into powerful easy-to-read maps, graphics and tables. Today’s headlines and recent events reflect the seriousness of climate change. Heatwaves, droughts and flooding are driving

Earthscan
Front page of the decret
Policies and plans

This Decree adopts the National Climate Change Adaptation Program of November 2007.

Burkina Faso - government
Policies and plans

The national adaptation strategy expresses the State's point of view on how to address the issue of adaptation to climate change.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
France - government
Documents and publications

This special volume deals exclusively with disasters, a subject of particular relevance in view of the threat to cultural heritage by global climate change.

International Council on Monuments and Sites, Nepal
Policies and plans

The development of the National Action Program for Adaptation to Climate Change (PANA) resulted from a participatory process based on fundamental studies, field surveys, consultations and numerous working meetings and workshops.

Comoros - government
Policies and plans

The adaptation options identified in this policy and prioritized with the participation of the populations constitute programs favourable to the increase of actual capacities to cope better, over time, with climatic variabilities.

Senegal - government
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