Open access research on climate resilience

Happy to share our recent publication in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability "What works, where and how? A systematic literature review of climate change adaptation measures in India". In this first-of-its-kind study, we conducted a systematic review of over 2,100 peer-reviewed articles (2017–2023) and found only 28 studies that clearly focused on climate change adaptation (CCA) measures in India using IPCC definitions of incremental and transformative adaptation. What we found: • Adaptation research is heavily skewed towards agriculture sector with a technocratic approach. • Most literature emphasizes incremental adaptation in agriculture (e.g., crop diversification, altered sowing cycles), with limited insights into transformative adaptation. • There’s a geographical gap, vulnerable regions like Northeast India are underrepresented, despite being on the frontlines of climate risk. • Gender, urban resilience, and soft adaptation measures (like education and capacity building) are majorly underrepresented. • A lack of clarity persists on how adaptation types are conceptualized in literature. Our review highlights the urgent need for more inclusive, transformative, and context-specific adaptation research to support climate-resilient development in India. Transformative adaptation is necessary as it reimagines and restructures systems to address the root causes of vulnerability, leading to long-term resilience and sustainability unlike incremental adaptation that focuses on small-scale adjustments within existing systems. It is an open access publication, we hope you will find it interesting. Thanks to my co authors Sumit Vij Surbhi Vyas Visakha G !

Slightly late but here: Excited that this paper that examines the impact and cost-effectiveness of 40 commonly used interventions in #foodsecurity #nutrition and #climate #resilience is finally out. We did this paper jointly with the @Innovation Commission for Climate Change and I led the team from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), while also being an advisor overall. The nice thing about the paper is that for the first time (I think) there's an analyses of available causal evidence to understand and measure impact as well as cost-effectiveness in the food, climate resilience space. We reviewed more than 600 papers to understand and measure these. The analysis includes studies with experimental designs–such as randomized control trials–or high-quality quasi-experimental designs, as well as meta-analyses. To be included, studies had to measure primary outcomes associated with food security (yield, profit, income, consumption, etc.), nutrition (BMI, prevalence of anemia, etc.), and climate (reforestation, resilience to shock, etc.). We also distinguished between 'Great Evidence', Good evidence and make operational recommendations that can be used by funders to design high impact programmes. Here's the paper https://lnkd.in/eE2_3iVD and this is the ''money slide'' where the axes refer to the consistency and quantity of evidence. Cash and in-kind transfers and graduation programmes are great bets.... University of Chicago, Tilman Brück, Kyle Murphy, Jess Rudder, Maximo Torero, Karen Macours, Paul Winters, Joshua W. Deutschmann Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Tisorn Songsermsawas, Lenyara Fundukova and many others.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. If you want a way to search the best available analytical tools in use by the world’s leading Finance Ministries and international organisations, search no further. Over a year’s worth of painstaking work as part of the Coalition of Finance Ministers Economic Analysis for Green and Resilient Transitions initiative has led to the Compendium of Practice - a global, collaborative resource with over 130 contributions from across 70 institutions, all downloadable as short papers. The Compendium showcases how Ministries of Finance (MoFs) and their partners are tackling key climate policy challenges through applied tools, modeling approaches, and capacity-building strategies. It covers:  1. The pressing questions many MoFs face in driving the transition   2. The plethora of economic analysis tools available to help address these questions from climate-enhanced macro modelling tools and physical climate risk models to decision-making frameworks and ex-post assessments of policy impacts.   3. The ways in which MoFs are building their own analytical capabilities and the premier capacity building efforts led by international organisations. Importantly, this is an open resource, 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱. You are encouraged to use it, circulate it within your institutions, and pass it along through your networks. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 – 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. To make this collective knowledge widely accessible, a new standalone 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 has been launched: The Macroeconomics of Green and Resilient Transitions website. This platforms complements the Coalition’s main site by making these contributions easy to explore, access, and apply—offering a practical gateway to policy-relevant tools and real-world examples. On the website, you’ll find:  • A searchable Compendium organized by policy questions, analytical tools, and capacity-building theme  • Full contributions showcasing country examples, practical guidance, and tools—typically 2–10 pages—available as individual downloads and to share on social media  • Access to the full reports of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action HP4 Economic Analysis for Green and Resilient Transitions initiative  • Resources on the global community of practice Visit the website: 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀.𝗼𝗿𝗴 Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action Mads Dalum Libergren Sam Koojo June A. Clare Nyakahuma Ralien Bekkers Leandro Rossi Frank van Lerven Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment

🌍 New Original Research Report! 📢 Sharing the latest IOM Kenya report: Climate Mobility in Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: A Qualitative Study 🔎🌱 The research dives deep into the lived experiences of climate-induced mobility in Garissa and Turkana Counties, exploring the intersection of climate change, migration, and local adaptation strategies. Through a qualitative lens, it highlights how communities navigate shifting landscapes, blending traditional and contemporary resilience practices in response to environmental pressures. The intersection of these dynamics with cultural adaptation and resilience are particularly compelling. Key themes include: ✅ Climate-driven displacement and migration patterns ✅ The role of social networks and cultural adaptation ✅ Implications for policy and humanitarian response This report is intended to be a valuable resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working on climate security, migration governance, and resilience-building. 📖 Read the full report through the link in the comments. #ClimateMobility #Kenya #ClimateChange #Migration #Adaptation #IOMKenya #Research #PolicyImpact

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 – Deep Dive Last week, I shared a post on open data tools for climate risk assessment and their role in climate adaptation. Since it sparked some interest, here’s a follow-up: a closer look at some of the best tools out there. 🦍 UN Biodiversity Lab 🦍 Hosts an amazing 269 datasets on biodiversity, from habitat intactness and ecosystem resilience to socio-economic indicators. – Great extra: national biodiversity statistics for 193 countries. – One highlight (which is integrated into many tools): The „GLC_FCS30“ land-cover map with an incredible 30x30m resolution. ⛈️ WESR Climate ⛈️ I like the tool by the UN Environment Programme because it offers a great framework for analyzing climate change variables: “Drivers” and “Pressures” (what drives climate change), “States” (how it alters Earth's systems), “Impacts” (resulting societal risks) and even “Responses” (what do we do to mitigate them). 🏭 Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI) 🏭 A collection by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure of an incredible 113 up-to-date and granular datasets on climate risks to buildings and infrastructures. – Great extra: Country-level statistics on average annual losses by climate hazards and infrastructure category. 🏚️ GIS-ImmoRisk 🏚️ Not flashy, but the only tool I know that lets you export building-specific climate risk PDF reports. It even factors in asset details (size, roof shape, windows, …) to assess likely damages by climate hazards. (Covers only Germany.) ❗ Where can you find these and other open climate and nature risk tools? – Click "resources" on the UN Environment Programme's World Environment Situation Room’s website. – Have a look at the MapX tool examples by UNEP/GRID-Geneva. – See the partially free KanataQ tool list. (Thank you, Nawar!) – Check out the tools and resources list of the NOAA. (Thank you, Douglas!) ❗ I’d appreciate hearing your opinion on the tools in this post, which tools you'd recommend, and where to find more. Link to last week's post: https://lnkd.in/dv_GKW83

Check out our new paper in the Annual Reviews of Nutrition journal: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Food Security, and Nutrition: Evolving Relationships and Critical Challenges. This review synthesizes the latest evidence to bridge climate and nutrition research, highlighting the critical gaps where science, policy, and practice must converge. Why this matters now: The world is experiencing record-breaking heat, droughts, and floods. These shocks are not only disrupting harvests—they are compounding existing burdens of hunger, poor diet quality, and obesity, especially in vulnerable populations. Four key takeaways from the review: 1. Multiple pathways of risk – Climate change affects food, water, health, and social protection systems simultaneously, leading to cascading threats for nutrition. 2. Malnutrition in all forms is not optimal – Progress on undernutrition is fragile and micronutrient deficiencies, obesity, and diet-related diseases are worsening, often coexisting within the same communities. 3. Near- and long-term impacts – Extreme weather is already eroding food security today, while projections show millions more at risk of hunger, stunting, and micronutrient deficiencies by mid-century if emissions remain high. 4. Adaptation and resilience are urgent – Poorly nourished populations are least able to adapt. Strengthening food systems, social protection, and nutrition-specific interventions can help build resilience against climate shocks. Thanks to Bianca Carducci, Jochebed Louis-Jean, Mario Herrero, Kevin Karl, and Cynthia Rosenzweig for their contributions. Read the full open-access article here: https://lnkd.in/ejUw9Z3N