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See more session details This presentation by Keith Alverson from UNEP shows how ecosystem based approaches (EBAs) can help with adaption, how mountains are related to SGDs, what the UNEP does in the mountains, how ecosystem based adaptation in mountain ecosystems works and what some take-home messages are.

See more session details This presentation focuses on several elements of NAPs like climate adaptation in agriculture, inter-sectoral analysis under climate change scenarios and much more.

See more session details Ruth de Fries from Columbia University gives several interesting information related to climate change like the social, cultural, political, economical context, weather information or where most climate adaptation research is conducted.

Focusing on carbon alone not enough to tackle emissions, deforestation: development expert WARSAW, Poland (20 November 2013) — Indonesia’s mission to cut carbon emissions through avoided deforestation can offer lessons to the rest of the world, a top official in the country’s development unit said — not least because focusing on carbon alone often falls […]

Lesotho prince: ‘Evidence at hand points at a landscapes approach as being the renewed opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change’ WARSAW, Poland (19 November 2013) — Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso has declared the need for all-inclusive climate solutions as a matter of “urgency” for his “suffering” nation. Speaking recently to agricultural and […]

Kalibata details country’s hard road to fixing farms, forests and boosting livelihoods WARSAW, Poland (21 November 2013) — Rwanda has made major strides in repairing degraded lands and restoring agricultural productivity, correcting “huge mistakes” in land management that were made in the past, the country’s top agricultural official said. Africa’s most densely populated country is […]