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ALivE - Adaptation, Livelihoods and Ecosystems Planning Tool

ALivE is a computer-based tool designed to support its users in organising and analysing information to plan effective Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) options within a broader EbA planning process. ALivE stands for Adaptation, Livelihoods and Ecosystems.

This guide is about taking account of, and managing, ecosystems to help people adapt to climate change in coastal areas: coastal Ecosystem based Adaptation (EBA).

In 2016, the GAN launched a new initiative to connect climate adaptation practitioners with their counterparts in other regions of the world in order build resilience through the sharing of key adaptation techniques. 

This toolkit is intended to build teachers‟ capacity for effective integration of climate change into their respective teaching subjects. While the toolkit is not subject-specific, teachers can adapt it to address specific learning outcomes in their subject areas. It is appropriate for use from primary school level up to the secondary level (both junior and senior secondary).

The impetus for writing this book was to advance our understanding of the atmospheric science and help to elucidate the fundamentals of teaching and learning about climate change. The intent was to provide a basic understanding of the subject matter so that teachers could meaningfully understand and teach climate change.

This report provides a framework for considering the full range of approaches to VIA assessment. It aims to help professionals such as researchers, policymakers, sectoral planners and consultants to select the appropriate methods and tools for their particular context and adaptation situation.

The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change provides a framework for considering the full range of approaches to VIA assessment. It aims to help professionals such as researchers, policymakers, sectoral planners and consultants to select the appropriate methods and tools for their particular context and adaptation situation.

What’s new in this year’s report? 

The report builds on a 2014 assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme, which laid out the concept of adaptation gaps and outlined three such gaps: technology, finance and knowledge.

What’s new in this year’s report?

The Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2020 finds that, despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C.

The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020 finds that while nations have advanced in planning, huge gaps remain in finance for developing countries and bringing adaptation projects to the stage where they bring real protection against climate impacts such as droughts, floods and sea-level rise.

A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities offers construction solutions to adapt to a range of different risks in various climates.

What’s new in this year’s report? 

The report – which looks at progress in planning, financing and implementing adaptation actions – finds that the adaptation finance needs of developing countries are 10-18 times as big as international public finance flows. This is over 50 per cent higher than the previous range estimate. 

What’s new in this year’s report

The Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) : The Gathering Storm finds that there is an urgent need to step up climate adaptation finance. Estimated adaptation costs in developing countries are five to ten times greater than current public adaptation finance flows, and the adaptation finance gap is widening.