A new report of scientific findings confirms not only that human activity is the primary cause of rising temperatures, but that climate change impacts are accelerating.
This working paper aims to clarify the issues around insurance mechanisms designed to improve resilience among the poor to climate change impacts. We hope the analysis will inform the ongoing insurance discussions at the UNFCCC in the build up to the Conference of Parties in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Even though climate change affects
countries differently, all countries will
need to perform many of the same
adaptation functions, such as climate
information management and public
engagement in adaptation planning. At
the end of 2008, the World Resources
Institute convened a technical workshop
in Bellagio, Italy to begin enumerating a
shared set of critical adaptation functions.
The resulting “Bellagio Framework”
can help identify strengths and gaps in
adaptation capacities in a given country,
as a basis for prioritizing adaptation
actions and investments.
This report assists businesses in Southeast Asia to understand the need to adept to climate change; learn what other are doing in government, civil society and the private sector to promote adaptation; identify the risks and opportunities that climate change impacts present, and act on them.
Note: This paper will be published as a chapter in the forthcoming book Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance?, by the Brookings Institution Press in 2009.
Clarifies the relationship between adaptation and development by analyzing 135 projects, policies, and other initiatives from the developing world that have been labeled by implementers or researchers as “adaptation to climate change.”
WRI envisions a world where poor and vulnerable people are more resilient to the serious ecological, economic, and social challenges posed by climate change.
WRI provides research and expert analysis to help countries work together toward climate solutions that are ambitious and based on mutual trust and confidence.