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Supporting China’s Pilot on Resilient Cities: Key Recommendations for Weihai’s 2035 Agenda

This report offers strategic guidance for urban climate resilience planning in Weihai for the period from 2025 to 2035. As a supplementary document to the Weihai Climate Adaptation Action Plan (2023), it aids in the effective implementation and support of climate adaptation efforts in Weihai. 

31 July 2024

Youth Adaptation Solutions Challenge Impact Report

The Impact Report highlights the achievements of the inaugural African Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthADAPT) Challenge cohort, demonstrating how investing in youth-led enterprises catalyzes the growth of micro and small to medium-sized enterprises, creates thousands of jobs and contributes to a more resilient future.

4 December 2023

Youth Engagement with Adaptation through the Global Stocktake

This report presents the outcomes of five Regional Youth Adaptation Forums and five Regional African Youth Consultations on Adaptation, which brought together over 6,550 young people in 137 countries in 2023.

3 December 2023

2023 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice

In this year's Stories of Resilience, we bring you a crucial message from communities implementing adaptation on the ground: global and national systems are not changing fast enough in response to urgent local adaptation needs.

1 December 2023

Accelerating Adaptation Finance – Africa and Global Perspectives

In the context of the Africa Climate Summit, this policy brief highlights the need to dramatically increase the amount and efficacy of adaptation financing to Africa. This brief also spotlights the persistent challenges related to adaptation finance flows in Africa, and highlights priority actions for the global finance community to undertake to address them. 

4 September 2023

Strategy and Planning to Redouble Adaptation in Africa: A Review

This study provides a detailed review of the national strategic adaptation documents prepared by governments in the African continent. It examines the main characteristics of these strategic adaptation plans, their depth and coverage, and the degree to which these documents demonstrate a supportive environment to implement the most critical adaptation programs at scale for each country.

4 September 2023

Locally Led Planning: A Guide for Building Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements

This Guide provides resources for locally led, inclusive, multisectoral upgrading for climate resilience in urban informal settlements.

15 March 2023

Brock Hicks

Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice

The stories in this compilation, based on the sessions of the 2022 Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation, are an important basis for us to understand the difference between local action and locally led action, and to identify effective ways of supporting local leadership.

14 November 2022

Anju Sharma, Kiara Worth, Tasha Goldberg

Youth Engagement with the Global Goal on Adaptation

It is crucial that the Global Goal on Adaptation reflects young people’s needs and priorities as they will live with the consequences of a warming planet the longest. Following worldwide youth consultations conducted by the Global Center on Adaptation, this report presents young people’s views on the Global Goal on Adaptation.

12 November 2022

Aoife Fleming, Mike Girling, Adriana Valenzuela, David Sharrock