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Reduced Emissions through Climate Smart Agroforestry (RECAF) (or Achieving emission reductions in the Central Highland and South Central Coast region of Viet Nam to support National REDD+ Action Programme goals)
Land use change continues to be a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Viet Nam, with the major drivers of forest-land conversion being logging (both legal and illegal), infrastructure development, and...
Document > Concept note Viet Nam IFAD
Amazon Sustainable Economy and Protection Program
The program objective is to change the trend of deforestation rate in priority areas in de Brazilian Amazon accordingly with the country NDC. Deforestation is the main source of GHG emissions in Brazil and had an...
Document > Concept note Brazil Funbio
Strengthening Climate Information Services and Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for El Salvador
El Salvador's social and economic conditions make the country vulnerable to the risks associated with climate variability and climate change. Over the last decade the annual meteo-hydrological regime has registered a...
Document > Concept note El Salvador UNEP
Strengthening on-ground community resilience and sustainability to climate change in the Kingdom of Tonga
Tonga is ranked as the second or third most vulnerable country to climate change impacts in the world, whilst contributing a negligible amount to global greenhouse gas emissions. In Tonga, the multiple and cumulative...
Document > Concept note Tonga SPREP
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE-III (LGCC3)
food security. Climate trends including greater unpredictability rainy season, increased floods and droughts and higher temperatures are stressing farming systems. Local Governments are responsible to support adaptation...
Document > Concept note Cambodia NCDD
Developing a GHG and SLCP monitoring network for enhanced compliance & enforcement of emission standards and improved climate change reporting
Enforcement of emissions regulation in Kenya is greatly hindered by the limited capacity to continuously monitor ambient air pollution, which limits the development of appropriate policy and legal instruments to...
Document > Concept note Kenya NEMA
Nature-based Solutions for transforming smallholder farming systems that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in South Africa
South African smallholder farmers rely on rainfall, made more erratic by climate change, and lack access to climate-risk informed agricultural advisory services to enhance their adaptive capacity. The impacts of...
Document > Concept note South Africa SANBI
Ensuring Climate Resilience and Energy Substitution for WASH Systems in Drought-Prone Districts of Karamoja Subregion, Uganda
Karamoja region experiences high year-to-year variability in climate cycle, including unpredictable rainfall patterns, which undermines the already limited resources and development through recurring droughts, flash...
Document > Concept note Uganda DBSA
Women-Adapt: Enhancing women smallholder farmers´adaptive capacity and scaling up climate-resilient food production systems in Côte d’Ivoire
Smallholder farmers (of which 70% women) in the Poro Region strive to achieve or maintain food and water security due to their exposure to climate hazards (droughts and rainfall variability). The project will adopt a...
Document > Concept note Côte d'Ivoire WFP
Strengthening resilience of ecosystems and communities to climate change effects in the North Rift Valley Region of Kenya
The North rift region counties are susceptible to climate change effects making communities and their livelihoods vulnerable to climate change effects. The region faces threats in food security, water stress and...
Document > Concept note Kenya
Climate-Resilient Aggregation, Storage, Warehousing Receipts, and Trading Facility for Dry Grains in Nakuru County, Kenya
In Kenya, smallholder farmers face several challenges among them, poor post harvest management of their produce. For grain farmers, losses during post harvest management is estimated to cause a loss of between 20 and 30...
Document > Concept note Kenya NEMA
Strengthen climate resilience in Mozambique: Sustainable access to solar drinking water in the rural provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo
1. Based on strong partnerships between Enabel and its Mozambique partner and on the lessons learnt from the implementation of the Belgian-funded project “Water Supply and Management to Contribute to Food Security in...
Document > Concept note Mozambique Enabel
Direct financing for communities and businesses to respond to climate change in the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands are expected to incur, on average, about USD 5 million per year (2% of GDP) in direct losses due to tropical cyclone activity – of which 90% are to the building sector. This project aims to strengthen...
Document > Concept note Cook Islands MFEM_COK
Dominica - Climate Elucidation for Adaptive Resilience in the Water Sector (D-ClEAR-Water)
There is evidence that climate change will result in increasing variability and extremes4 and this will impact the availability of water in Dominica, particularly in the dry season. Less water will be available to...
Document > Concept note Dominica CCCCC
Sustainable Urban Transport Project
The Sustainable Urban Transport project is envisioned to reduce the growth rate of the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutant emissions from the transport sector while enhancing sustainable mobility through...
Document > Concept note Philippines (the) Landbank
Securing Strategic Water Source Areas in South Africa towards enhancing adaptation to climate change exacerbated water scarcity
South Africa is a water scarce country, the 30th driest in the world. The country is facing a water crisis resulting from the increasing severity of droughts and erratic rainfall events, driven by climatic variation,...
Document > Concept note South Africa SANBI
Strengthening the resilience of the communities in the Dead Sine Valley
Climate change has already led to ecosystem degradation in the Dead Sine Valley. Multiple droughts and the rising sea level have increased the salinization of land and water resources. Yields and farm incomes have...
Document > Concept note Senegal CSE
Low emissions cattle ranching landscape: a sustainable and climate responsive alternative for rural development in Colombia
Rural development is urgent in a post-conflict scenario in Colombia. GHG emissions from AFOLU sector account for 55% of the total (with deforestation as the main driver) and recent climate extreme events generated...
Document > Concept note Colombia FondoAccion
Reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing rural livelihoods in the Headwaters of the Zambezi river (Zambia’s North-Western province), in support to NDC implementation and RBPs
Deforestation and forest degradation are major concerns in Zambia. The deforestation rate is estimated between 79 000 - 150 000 ha per year (ILUA II, 2016[1]), placing Zambia among the countries with the highest...
Document > Concept note Zambia FAO
Scaling up regional action to reduce deforestation and increase resilience to climate change under the framework of the Leticia Pact for the Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru)
The destruction of the forests of the Amazon basin imperils global climate stability and the climate-resilience of vulnerable indigenous and local communities. The proposed Program will accelerate the regional shift to...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries CI
GCF signs partner agreements hours after Board approval
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners have signed implementation agreements for two new climate finance projects only hours after they were approved by the GCF Board.
The signing of the Funded Activity...
Article > Press release WorldBank 
FP154 - Mongolia: Aimags and Soums Green Regional Development Investment Program (ASDIP)
In Mongolia average temperatures have risen by 2.1°C over the past 70 years. Average rainfall is declining, and extreme weather events are more frequent. This poses challenges to livestock production and managing the...
Project > Public sector Mongolia ADB 
FP155 - Building resilience to cope with climate change in Jordan through improving water use efficiency in the agriculture sector (BRCCJ)
One of the most water-scarce countries, Jordan is facing severe climate change risks. Increasing temperatures and reduced rainfall patterns, coupled with an unprecedented population growth due to an influx of refugees,...
Project > Public sector Jordan FAO 
FP156 - ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility (ACGF): Green Recovery Program
Southeast Asia is one of the world's most energy-intensive regions, with rapid urbanisation and industrialisation increasing its greenhouse gas emissions. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on the region's...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries ADB 
FP157 - Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Cuba through Ecosystem Based Adaptation - "MI COSTA"
Cuba is frequently affected by tropical storms and it is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events. Due to its long coastline, 57 percent of the country’s population lives in coastal municipalities which are highly...
Project > Public sector Cuba UNDP 
FP158 - Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Mitigation in Botswana’s Communal Rangelands
While raising livestock forms the cultural and economic bedrocks of many communities in Botswana, this practice is becoming increasingly affected by climate change. With rising temperatures and more erratic rainfall,...
Project > Public sector Botswana CI 
FP159 - PREFOREST CONGO - Project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from forests in five departments in the Republic of Congo
Despite having historically low deforestation rates, the Republic of Congo's vast areas of forests are now under increasing threat. A major cause is slash-and-burn farming to expand agriculture and meet the energy needs...
Project > Public sector Congo FAO 
FP160 - Monrovia Metropolitan Climate Resilience Project
The Liberian capital of Monrovia is particularly vulnerable to climate effects, namely sea level rise and the increased frequency of high-intensity storms. This has resulted in coastal erosion and shoreline retreat,...
Project > Public sector Liberia UNDP 
FP161 - Building Regional Resilience through Strengthened Meteorological, Hydrological and Climate Services in the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Member Countries
Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, located in the Southwest Indian Ocean region, are highly vulnerable to climate change. Tropical cyclones are the most frequent catastrophic hazards in the region and have...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries AFD 
FP162 - The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts in 7 Sahelian Countries of the Great Green Wall (GGW)
The Sahel region of Western Africa is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change with worsening impacts of rising temperature, rainfall variability and extreme weather events. Reliance on rain-fed farming and...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries IFAD 