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A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities
This guidance note has been prepared because the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recognizes the key role buildings can play in enhancing climate change adaptation,... -
High-end Climate Change and Adaptation - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #3
Key Messages: i) Global warming of 4°C relative to pre-industrial would lead to severe impacts worldwide, with frequent extreme human heat stress conditions in the Tropics,... -
Transboundary Climate Risk and Adaptation - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #2
Key Messages: i) Adaptation science should support the policy community to adopt a transboundary lens to better manage the systemic nature of climate risk. ii) Adaptation is not... -
Chapter 2. Framing the Adaptation Gap Report - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
This chapter highlights some of the basic elements of the longer-term approach in terms of assessing adaptation in the context of climate risks. First, climate risks are...