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UN Environment Programme and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre have developed a series of briefing notes to guide programming on ecosystem-based adaptation. 

The analysis presents the business case for sustainable Robusta coffee cultivation in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. In recent years, intercropping models involving coffee interspersed with shade or fruit trees have demonstrated their potential to generate multiple benefits to smallholders and the environment.

In the last 20 years, extreme weather such as flooding, cyclones and heatwaves have taken a heavy toll on the nation’s coastal communities, severely affecting access to basic necessities. The government of Madagascar is working to build the resilience of coastal communities in 4 regions: Boeny; Menabe; Atsinanana, and Vatovavy-Fitovinany.

The Republic of Angola is the 2nd largest country in sub-Saharan Africa. It has a highly diverse topography, covering flat coastal plains and a mountainous inland region. The coasts are vital for the country’s economy, hosting around 50% of the population of 30 million.

Keep up to date on the latest adaptation news through the GAN Newsletter! Founded in 2010, the Global Adaptation Network (GAN) provides a worldwide platform to distribute and exchange climate change adaptation knowledge. The secretariat of GAN is hosted by the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi.

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The Microfinance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (MEBA) project aims To provide vulnerable rural and peri-urban populations in the Andean region of Colombia and Peru with microfinance services and products that will allow them to invest in activities related to ecosystem sustainability, improving their income and resilience towards climate change effects.

This UNEP project was located in two sites: Khor Angar in the North (pop. 3,500), where mangroves that once protected villagers from floods are damaged, and Damerjog (pop. 600) in the South, where communities face rising seas and saltwater destroying their crops. The project piloted approaches for rehabilitating degraded watersheds and wadi shores to reduce seawater intrusion and floods.

Two projects were implemented to address adaptation needs in Dar-es-Salaam (pop. 4.3m) and the following coastal districts: Pangani (pop. 54,025), Rufiji (pop. 182,000), Bagamoyo (pop. 82,578) and Zanzibar (pop. 1.3m).

UN Environment and the government of Gambia have launched the country’s largest adaptation project, which aims to develop a sustainable natural resource-based economy.

The project is building climate adaptation near 5 community protected forests across the country. These areas are extremely vulnerable to climate change due to increasingly erratic rainfall, where dry seasons are getting drier and wet seasons are wetter, causing devastating floods and droughts.

The project’s 1st phase built climate forecasting systems across Gambia to help communities prepare in advance for extreme weather. It provided equipment and training for forecasting offices and TV/radio networks.

The UN Environment Programme is helping the government of Rwanda to build the climate resilience of people living near the Gishwati area. The local population depends hugely on rain-fed crops, but the region is under immense pressure from climate change and erratic rainfall.

This UNEP project was located in two sites: Khor Angar in the North (pop. 3,500), where mangroves that once protected villagers from floods are damaged, and Damerjog (pop. 600) in the South, where communities face rising seas and saltwater destroying their crops. The project piloted approaches for rehabilitating degraded watersheds and wadi shores to reduce seawater intrusion and floods.

The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), approved on 24 September 2019 by the 195 IPCC member governments, provides new evidence for the benefits of limiting global warming to the lowest possible level – in line with the goal that governments set themselves in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The project’s 1st phase built climate forecasting systems across Gambia to help communities prepare in advance for extreme weather. The project provided equipment and training for forecasting offices and TV/radio networks.

The UN Environment Programme and the government of Gambia have launched the country’s largest adaptation project, which aims to develop a sustainable natural resource-based economy.

This paper aims to inform the development of the Global Commission on Adaptation’s flagship report and action tracks by providing an evidence-based overview (drawn from peer-reviewed and gray literature and expert input) of the role of the natural environment in societal adaptation to climate change.

UNEP FI partnered with Climate Finance Advisors to deliver this report to the Global Commission on Adaptation. It identifies the main barriers in the financial system to accelerated investment in adaptation-related programmes and projects and proposes six sets of recommendations to unlock the financing of adaptation programmes.

Two projects were implemented to address adaptation needs in Dar-es-Salaam (pop. 4.3m) and the following coastal districts:  Pangani (pop. 54,025), Rufiji (pop. 182,000), Bagamoyo (pop. 82,578) Mkoani (pop. 98,000) and Mijni (pop. 223,000).

The UN Environment Programme is helping the government of Sudan to build resilience among SRFPs in the White Nile State. The project’s main approach is ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), which involves protecting and restoring healthy ecosystems.

This UNEP project was located in two sites: Khor Angar in the North (pop. 3,500), where mangroves that once protected villagers from floods are damaged, and Damerjog (pop. 600) in the South, where communities face rising seas and saltwater destroying their crops. The project piloted approaches for rehabilitating degraded watersheds and wadi shores to reduce seawater intrusion and floods.

Djibouti is a small arid country where the availability of water is a key development constraint that inflicts crops and livestock. 85% of the 890,000 Djiboutians live in urban coastal areas, but these regions are showing severe signs of degradation from climate change. The project was located in two sites: Khor Angar in the North (pop.

UNEP is helping the government of Sudan to build climate resilience among smallholder rainfed farmers and pastoralists (SRFPs) in the White Nile State. The project’s main approach is ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), which involves protecting and restoring healthy ecosystems.

This project is helping the government to build climate resilience in 15 locations across three Comorian islands (5 in each). Families in these areas are facing severe water shortages due to increasingly erratic and reduced rainfall.