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How can climate adaptation governance be implemented?

In this video Hellen Dawo highlights the opportunities climate adaptation governance creates for cooperation. Climate adaptation solutions often draw from different disciplines. We will broadly examine three disciplines and how …

Challenges to nature-based solutions

In previous steps, we have learnt about the opportunities nature-based solutions present in solving climate adaptation challenges. However, the implementation of nature-based solutions is complex and involves many negotiations. In …

The ethics of climate finance

Climate finance requires international consensus among countries. So, how is this consensus reached and what guides negotiations? In order to answer these two questions, let’s look at climate finance through …

Insight into two funding initiatives

There are two funds that cater for specific countries and goals. You might have heard of them. Let’s explore a little more what they are aiming at. Least Developed Countries …

An introduction to community resilience

Community-Based Adaptation Community-based adaption is a relative newcomer in the field of participatory development approaches. The participatory tradition in community development goes back to work by Paulo Freire in the …

Nature as a first line of defence

Ecosystems are defined as “a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit” (Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992). They are a …

7 key global policy milestones

In order to understand climate adaptation governance, we need to know the history of policy developments leading up to how climate adaptation governance looks now. Therefore, in this article, you …

Climate adaptation governance in Kenya explained

Let’s discuss the answers you may have formulated for the previous step. Question 1: Look at section 4.2 Proposed sectorial adaptation actions (pages 21-41) on Climate adaptation actions; identify sectors …

The goals of the Green Climate Fund

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established in 2010 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Its mandate is to support low emission and climate-resilient development in …

An introduction to climate finance

Studies in climate finance attempt to answer three major questions: Which approach should have more funding? Mitigation or Adaptation? How should we structure negotiations about the assistance to the most …