rowid,No,Publication_Name,Organization,Year_of_Publication,Description,Link_to_access,Comments 11,11,Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan,World Bank,2020,"As many countries in Africa are adopting climate-smart technologies and practices, this report offers a synthesis of insights and opportunities for implementation within the Africa Climate Business plan.",https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33973, 43,43,Regional Climate Outlook Forums: Highlights,UNECA,2020,"Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) bring together experts from national and international climate centres to bring in their expertise and climate information products to predict temperature and rainfall patterns across Africa. These predictions merged to form a consensus-based, user relevant, real-time climate outlook which is used by practitioners and decision makers to reduce climate-related risks.",https://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/fullpublicationfiles/WISER%20regional%20climate%20outlook%20forums%20best%20practice%20highlights%20EN.pdf, 42,42,Emissions Gap Report 2020,"United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNEP-DTU Partnership",2020,"The Annual Emissions Gap Report reviews the difference between the emissions level predicted in 2030 and where they currently need to be to avoid the most negative impacts of climate change. The report finds stil higher emissions level despite the drop in CO2 levels due to the pandemic and makes a strong case for a low-carbon, green recovery pathway and effective action to put the world on track for the 2 degree Celsius pathway.",https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34426/EGR20.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y, 3,3,Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report,WIREs Climate Change ,2020,The articles explores the available literature on adaptation in SIDS and shift in knowledge production post AR5 and key themes and tensions withing developing literature and knowledge gaps,https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.653, 1,1,"Urban adaptation in Europe: how cities and towns respond to climate change",European Environment Agency (EEA),2020,"The report looks at the current adaptation situation specifically focusing on local governments especially of cities while underlying the climate risks to cities, possible adaptation solutions, locally undertaken planning and adaptation actions and possiblity of speeding up and scaling up of solutions",https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/urban-adaptation-in-europe/at_download/file,https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/urban-adaptation-in-europe 10,10,The Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan : Ramping Up Development-Centered Climate Action,World Bank,2020,The report presents the main development challenges and priorities that countries in Sub-Saharan Africa face in regards to climate action.,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34098, 39,39,Derisking Renewable Energy Investment,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),2020,The report provides a new quantitative framework for assiting policy makers in developing countries to cost-effectively promote and scale-up investment of private sector in renewable energy. The DREI framework regularly publishes key reports that highlight updates to the framework.,https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-energy/low_emission_climateresilientdevelopment/derisking-renewable-energy-investment.html, 2,2,"Monitoring and evaluation of national adaptation policies throughout the policy cycle",European Environment Agency (EEA),2020,"The report tries to evaluate adaptation policies, programmes and measures and tries to understand whether NAS and NAPs in the EU are improving reslience and identifies key challenges, knowledge gaps and opportunities for adaptation.",https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/national-adaptation-policies/at_download/file, 44,44,Innovative Finance for Private Sector Development in Africa Development in Africa ,UNECA,2020,"The report underlines the importance of increasing private sector investment for meeting the SDGs by 2030 and also given the rapidly rising costs of reaching the same, the need to involve the private sector for improving resilience in the African region.",https://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/fullpublicationfiles/ERA_2020_mobile_20201213.pdf, 7,7,Invention and Global Diffusion of Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation : A Patent Analysis,World Bank,2020,The report uses data on patents to assess the global diffusion and creation of climate adaptation technologies over the last decades with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries cases. The analysis is based on the data on technologies for climate change adaptation from the World Patent Statistical Database.,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33883, 8,8,Impacts of Climate Change on Georgia’s Coastal Zone : Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Options,World Bank,2020,"This report aims to raise the ambition of the nationally determined contributions of Georgia, through a methodology based on geographic scope, projections, identifying risks and vulnerabilities, the impact of climate change on economic sectors and providing recommendations. It also presents adaptation targets for the coast of the Black Sea and the importance of blue economy for climate adaptation.",https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34886, 46,46,Nature-based solutions for adapting to water-related climate risks (2020),Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),2020,"This report assess coastal, riverine and urban flooding and drought and the nature-based solutions that can be considered for tackling these water-related issues. ",https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/nature-based-solutions-for-adapting-to-water-related-climate-risks_2257873d-en, 14,14,Making Social Protection Information Systems Adaptive,World Bank,2020,This report assess the potential of social protection information systems in building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change and disaster risks in Latin America and the Caribbean.,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34134, 18,18,World Development Report 2020,World bank,2020,"This report discusses the Global Value Chains and its path to development, presenting its opportunities and risks.",https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2020, 15,15,Analysis of Heat Waves and Urban Heat Island Effects in Central European Cities and Implications for Urban Planning,World Bank,2020,This report discusses the problem of urban heat islands in cities in Central Europe and the existing adaptation and risk measures available to address it.,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34335, 12,12,Using Social Work Interventions to Address Climate and Disaster Risks in Latin America and the Caribbean,World Bank,2020,This report focus on the role of Social Work intervetions and strategies for addressing climate related risks in Latin America and the Caribbean. ,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34137, 9,9,Towards Climate Resilient Environmental and Natural Resources Management in the Lake Victoria Basin,World Bank,2020,This report focuses on assessing climate resilience as a result of environmental and natural resources management measures. It combines the main findings and results of technical reports.,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33912, 13,13,Resilient Industries : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters,World Bank,2020,This report focuses on industry resilience as climate change and natural intensify. It presents a framework for strengthening resilience to adapt to climate change and disaster risks.,https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34764, 6,6,Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience,World Bank,2020,"This report offer a guide for effective climate adaptation including instructions on how to design, implement and monitor national strategies. It also includes case studies on how the Covid-19 can influence priorities in the context of climate adaptation",https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34780, 35,35,A typology and analysis of climate-related security risks in the first round Nationally Determined Contributions,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),2020,This report studies the inter-linkage between climate change and security based on a study conducted by UNDP on the first round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The findings suggest the importance of climate change as a concern that intenisifies security risks and vice-versa and these linkages that can hinder climate action and NDC targets.,https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/climate-and-disaster-resilience-/A-typology-and-analysis-of-climate-related-security-risks-in-the-first-round-Nationally-Determined-Contributions.html,