How effective are climate funds?
In this video Hellen Dawo looks at how to increase funding for climate adaptation and opportunities to direct the money where it is needed most. Governments find it difficult to …
Course: Making Climate Adaptation Happen: Governing Transformation Strategies for Climate Change
Welcome to Week 2
Governance may be explained as the process by which actors formulate rules and guidelines that affect how a society (the people) behave. The process of governance helps us make rules …
Impact of climate change
Here Hellen Dawo explains nature and causes of climate change and highlights an urgent need to respond to the effects of climate change. Climate is defined as the average weather …
Why climate adaptation needs governance
Why does climate adaptation need governance? In this video Hellen Dawo shows the need for innovative approaches to governance in the wake of climate change, thereby what we have learnt …
Food insecurity, poverty and vulnerability to climate change
Bruce Campbell from the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) shows us how food insecurity, poverty and vulnerability to climate change are very inter-twined. If we are serious about reaching the …
What is the Global Commission on Adaptation?
The implementation of adaptation strategies requires strategy, planning, finance, implementation, evaluation and reporting. There are various bodies concerned with these actions including the Global Commission on Adaptation. The Global Commission …
How do governments and communities respond to climate change effects?
This video explains the response to climate change on different levels; from community, to regions and governments.
Introduction to Week 3
In this video Hellen Dawo recaps the concepts explored in Week 2 and introduces the topic of this week: climate finance. Funding for climate finance is organised using the polluter …
The case for using nature-based solutions
Natural ecosystems are humanity’s first line of defence against the mounting impacts of climate change. There are many examples of how nature helps humans to cope with the impacts of …
Adaptation versus mitigation funding
This video focuses on the distribution of funds between the two approaches of adaptation and mitigation, and how governments try to balance these. Climate mitigation concentrates on reduction of emissions …
Community-based adaptation
In this video Elina Väänänen from the Global Center on Adaptation explains community-based adaptation. This is a participatory approach to adaptation that aims to strengthen the resilience of poor and …
Welcome to Week 4
This video explores how climate adaptation solutions have been applied in various places across the globe. In particular we share an successful example of nature-based solutions from Ethiopia. Solutions like …
Boosting investment in climate adaptation initiatives
In this video Dominic Molloy from the Global Center on Adaptation explores business cases that can be used to encourage investment in adaptation solutions by governments, and private sector alike. …
Introduction to climate adaptation governance
Climate adaptation governance solutions depend on the context. So, unfortunately, there is no off the rack solution for climate adaptation governance. A solution for flooding in one area cannot be …
What can governments do?
This video gives an overview of how governments respond to climate change effects, and what type of issues they need to address.
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Making Climate Adaptation Happen: Governing Transformation Strategies for Climate Change
