Welcome to UNEP’s climate adaptation resources! This collection includes flagship reports, briefing notes, toolkits, policy briefs, research and academic products, stories, press releases, videos and more!
Recent Reports:
- A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from UNEP - link
- National Adaptation Planning: Emerging Lessons Learned From UNEP Projects - link
- Adopting a Human Rights-based Approach to Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
- Adaptation Gap Report 2023 - link
- UNEP & Climate Adaptation: What We Do - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation Briefing Note Series - link
Networks & Programmes:
- Global Adaptation Network - link
- World Adaptation Science Programme - link
- Global Center on Adaptation - link
- The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network - link
- Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer & Climate Action in Latin America and the Caribbean - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Food Security in Africa Assembly - link
- The Global Peatlands Initiative - link
- Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction - link
Funding Opportunities:
- Global EbA Fund – link
- Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator – link
- Green Climate Fund Climate Readiness Programme – link
- Restoration Seed Capital Facility - link
- Land use Finance Programme - link
- Agri3 Fund - link
Podcast:
- Resilience: The Global Adaptation Podcast - link
Case Studies & Lessons Learned:
- Financing Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Cities: A Case Study from Mexico - link
- Gender-responsive Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A Case Study from El Salvador - link
- A Watershed Approach in Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A Case Study from Latin America and the Caribbean - link
- Restoring Climate-resilient Mangroves and Communities: A Case Study from Djibouti - link
- People-centric Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A Case Study from Sudan - link
- Lessons Learned: Ecosystem-based Adaptation and an Integrated Resilient Rice Model in Madagascar - link
- Lessons Learned: Climate Adaptation in Tanzania with Ecosystem Restoration & Flood Defence Infrastructure - link
- Lessons Learned: Building Climate Resilience in Lesotho with Early Warning Systems - link
- Microfinance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Options, Costs and Benefits - link
- Good Practice Brief: South-South Cooperation for Upscaling Nature Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation - link
- Forestry in the Gambia: A Climate Adaptation Case Study – link
- Success Stories: National Adaptation Planning in Nepal – link
- Mountain Resilience: Torrent Catchment Restoration in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan – link
- Mountains Adapt: Solutions from East Africa - link
- Mountains Adapt: Solutions from the South Caucasus - link
- Environmental and Social Safeguards in Rwanda: A Climate Adaptation Case Study - link
Briefing Note Series on Ecosystem-based Adaptation:
- 1. Introduction to Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
- 2. Navigating the Adaptation Challenge - link
- 3. Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Different Ecosystems - link
- 4. Selecting Complementary Adaptation Measures - link
- 5. Developing the Economic Case for Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
- 6. Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation into National Planning - link
- 7. UNEP & Ecosystem-based Adaptation – link
- 8. Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
- 9. Coastal Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
- 10. Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Forestry - link
- 11. Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Agriculture - link
Training, Courses & Toolkits:
- Opportunity Mapping Tool for Eco-DRR - link
- Course: Climate Change, Peace and Security: Understanding Climate-Related Security Risks Through an Integrated Lens - link
- Strata: Custom Climate Security Analytics - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation Tools Navigator - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation Planning: ALivE - Adaptation, Livelihoods and Ecosystems – link
- Handbook: A Handbook for Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mountain, Dryland, and Coastal Ecosystems - link
- Massive Open Online Course: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience – link
- Course: Finance and Climate Action in Cities: Nature-based Solutions as an Adaptation Mechanism in Latin America and the Caribbean – link (Spanish)
- Reference Guide: Research on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) – link
- The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: How to articulate integrated responses to the health, economic and climate crises in Latin America & the Caribbean - link
- Hazard and Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Toolkit - link
- Community-Based Disaster Preparedness Toolkit – link
- Options for Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Coastal Environments - link
- Resource Guide: Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Education Curriculum - link
- Panorama EbA Solutions Portal - link
- Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation & Sustainable Livelihoods: Guidance Note – link
- Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation & Sustainable Livelihoods: Monitoring & Evaluation – link
- Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation & Sustainable Livelihoods: Toolbox – link
- Online Course: Guidelines For Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation Into National Adaptation Plans - link
- A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities - link
- Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities - link
- Guidelines For Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation Into National Adaptation Plans - link
Op-Eds & Stories:
- Sudan's water crisis and the women fighting back - link
- The race to save Zambia’s wetlands - link
- Forests and passion: a hero’s guide to resisting climate change – link
- Six ways nature can protect us from climate change – link
- “Sponge City”: San Salvador uses nature to fight floods– link
- Albania: How a lagoon became a frontline defence against climate change– link
- Bend, but never break: weaving a climate-proof future– link
- Students discover solutions to help Durban slums adapt to climate change– link
- “I’m proud to have brought the rain back”: Reforestation revives Cambodian mountains– link
- Helping Gambian youth find greener pastures at home– link
- South-South cooperation to tackle climate change– link
- Ice loss on Africa’s highest peak prompts star climber to reconsider his sport - link
- Darfur: Adapting to an encroaching desert– link
- Ecosystem-based adaptation and green recovery: Building back better from Covid-19 - link
- Glacier collapse in India a worrying sign of what`s to come – link
- ‘Seawater is coming into our farms and killing the plants’– link
- 5 ways to make buildings climate change resilient - link
- In pictures: How Africa is using nature to adapt to climate change - link
- Farmers adapt to climate crisis on Burundi’s precarious hillsides - link
Videos:
- Adapting to Hurricanes in Antigua & Barbuda - link
- What is Ecosystem-based Adaptation? - link
- Regreening San Salvador to fight climate change - link
- Using Nature to Fight Climate Change in Albania - link
- Saving the Seychelles: Reforestation to fight climate change - link
- The Living Shoreline: Building a resilient waterfront in Manhattan - link
- Mangroves: A Super Solution - link
- Documentary: Sustainable climate-resilient livelihoods in Mauritania – link (French)
- Documentary: EbA South – link
- Upscaling Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Albania - link
- Andean Glacier and Water Atlas - link
- A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities - link
- Women adapt to Sudan's water crisis - link
Project Factsheets:
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Bangladesh 2020-2024 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Mediterranean Region 2019-2023 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Nepal 2019-2022 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Rwanda 2016-2023 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Gambia 2017-2023 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Cambodia 2013-2019 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Comoros 2013-2022 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Djibouti 2010-2016 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tanzania 2012-2019 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Rwanda 2010-2015 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Sudan 2017-2023 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Madagascar 2014-2020 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Angola 2016-2020 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Albania 2016-2020 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Djibouti II 2014-2021 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Nepal 2019-2022 - link
- EbA South: Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mauritania, Nepal & Seychelles 2013-2020 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Lake Victoria 2018-2021 - link
- Early Warning Climate Forecasting in Gambia 2011-2019 - link
- Early Warning Climate Forecasting in Rwanda 2010-2015 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Lao PDR 2020-2025 - link
- CityAdapt: Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mexico, Jamaica and El Salvador 2017-2023 - link
- CityAdapt: Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao & Myanmar 2017-2023 - link
- Early Warning Climate Forecasting in Lesotho 2019-2023 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mozambique 2019-2023 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mauritania 2017-2022 - link
- Nature-based Solutions in 13 Cities in Latin America & the Caribbean 2021-2024 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Benin 2019-2024 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tanzania 2017-2024 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Uganda 2020-2024 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Zambia 2021-2025 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Greater Mekong 2023-2027 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tuvalu 2024-2029 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Timor-Leste 2023-2028 - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation in South Sudan 2023-2028 - link
Policy Briefs:
- Seven Lessons on Using Ecosystem Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation - link
- WASP Brief #5 - Cascading shocks and stressors – link
- WASP Brief #4 - Early warning systems for adaptation – link
- Adaptation Decision-Support Tools and Platforms – link
- Transboundary Climate Risk and Adaptation – link
- High-end Climate Change and Adaptation - link
- Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation - link
- Adapting to climate change in Mountain cities – link
- Mountain Adaptation Outlook Series – link
Project Portfolio Overview:
- List of all UNEP’s adaptation projects - link
- Map of UNEP's Ecosystem-based Adaptation Projects – link
- Map of UNEP's National Adaptation Plan Projects - link
Project Websites:
- NDC Action Project - link
- National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme - link
- CityAdapt: Reconnecting Cities with Nature for Adaptation – link
- EbA South: Ecosystem-based Adaptation & South-South Cooperation – link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation at Kune-Vain Lagoon, Albania - link
- Vanishing Treasures: Climate resilient mountain ecosystems for livelihoods and flagship species – link
- Adaptation at Altitude: Taking Action in the mountains - link
Implementation Protocols:
- Guidelines on Mangrove Restoration for the Western Indian Ocean Region - link
- Blue Nature-based Solutions in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Booklet for Successful Implementation - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation Technical Guidelines in Albania - link
- Guidance on Integrating Ecosystem Considerations in Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Assessments – link
- Guidebook for Monitoring & Evaluating EbA Interventions – link
- Making Ecosystem-based Adaptation Effective: a Framework for Defining Qualification Criteria and Quality Standards – link
Other Publications:
- Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review - link
- Driving Finance Today For A Climate Resilient Society of Tomorrow - link
- Role of the Natural Environment in Adaptation - link
- Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires - link
- Insuring the Climate Transition: Enhancing The Insurance Industry’s Assessment of Climate Change Futures - link
- Harnessing Nature to Build Climate Resilience: Scaling Up the Use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation Stakeholder Dialogue Report - link
- Integrating Displaced Populations into National Climate Change Policy and Planning - link
