Publications

07 July 2014

Imagining the Future Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction – Presenting a New Guide for Decision-Makers

This report is designed to help those contributing to the new agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA2) on disaster risk reduction by collating evidence and recommendations around seven core modules, including: making the...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Disaster Risk Reduction / Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Pacific, Rest of the World, South Asia, Central Asia

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07 July 2014

ADB and Climate Investment Funds: Climate Change Innovation and Action in Asia and the Pacific

This report presents ADB’s experience in developing Climate Investment Funds programs and highlights innovative transformations expected from or already achieved by ADB projects with CIF funding. For more information, please visit...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia

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07 July 2014

LEAD Pakistan’s new study on Mainstreaming Community Based Climate Change Adaptation (CBA) in Pakistan

As part of its research series on vulnerability and resilience, this study introduces the wide-ranging concepts and frameworks for CBA. It takes a critical look at the CBA practices in Pakistan that draw some important lessons and...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Pakistan

07 July 2014

Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project: Rapid Climate Change Threat and Vulnerability Assessment

This report illustrates the use of a rapid climate impact assessment for examining how climate change is likely to influence the performance of a transport link in the Mekong Delta. It also discusses a number of adaptation options...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

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30 June 2014

The 4th Exchange Series on Climate Financing: E-Discussion Report

The 4th Exchange on “Bringing Realistic Adaptation Financing into the NAP Process” was raised by Dr. Peter King on 21 May 2014 to engage the APAN climate change adaptation community in Asia and the Pacific. The Exchange period las...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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18 June 2014

The 4th Exchange Series on Climate Financing: E-Discussion Report

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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10 June 2014

Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: International Experiences with Payments for Environmental Services in Grazing Lands and Other Rangelands

This report identifies potential financing mechanisms that the Government of Mongolia and relevant stakeholders can potentially adopt and incorporate into their specific climate change and environmental strategies and plans. The r...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Mongolia

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10 June 2014

Central and West Asia Working Paper Series: Climate Change and Sustainable Water Management in Central Asia

This report shows the results of the research on Water and Adaptation Interventions in Central and West Asia, combining field observations with sophisticated satellite-based data and created models to demonstrate the impacts of cl...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Central Asia

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10 June 2014

Addressing heat-related health risks in urban India: Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan

This report, one of Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)’s Inside stories on climate compatible development, looks at how the city of Ahmedabad in Western India is preparing for the increasingly extreme heat of the cit...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

South Asia

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10 June 2014

Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India

This case study describes how an action research programme on climate mainstreaming is currently addressing a considerable increase in the intensity and frequency of floods that Gorakhpur District has faced. The study looks at how...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

India

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