Climate Adaptation Resources & Multimedia

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:

  • Adaptation Gap Report 2024 - link
  • E-Course: Bringing Nature Into National Adaptation Planning - link
  • A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from UNEP - link
  • National Adaptation Planning: Emerging Lessons Learned From UNEP Projects - 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:

  • Adopting a Human Rights-based Approach to Ecosystem-based Adaptation - link
  • 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