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The policy brief "How Can Africa Manage the Transboundary Climate Risks It Faces?" examines how climate change impacts and related actions in one nation can create risks that extend beyond borders, termed transboundary climate risks (TCARs). These risks can hinder economic progress, disrupt trade and food security, and affect infrastructure across Africa.

• Somalia
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

The climate risk report for the Central and South Asia region is part of a series of standardised regional climate risk reports the Met Office is producing in collaboration with ODI. Understanding future climate risks depends on analysing both future climate conditions, and the socio-economic vulnerabilities exposed by those conditions.

• Uzbekistan
• Kazakhstan
• Turkmenistan
• Bangladesh
• Afghanistan
• Bhutan
• India
• Climate Finance
• Climate Science
• 2024

The blog written by written by Zac Lowndes-Bull, Engagement Manager Climate Finance, Pegasys, in collaboration with the STAAR Facility discusses the growing interest in integrating social protection measures into climate change responses. It highlights recent international developments, such as the formation of the Loss and Damage Fund and the Global Shield Initiative, which increasingly consider social protection in their strategies.

• Social Protection
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

This report recommends investing in water-saving measures, traditional soil and water conservation techniques, agroforestry, livestock integration, and organic farming. It also suggests enhancing governance of land and natural resources, testing nature-based restoration in degraded areas, and building data infrastructure for climate-resilient agriculture.

• Morocco
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2023

This WOW Helpdesk query provides the findings of key issues around the economic empowerment of women, people with disabilities and other excluded groups. This rapid desk-based research will support interventions of the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) - drawing on what is publicly available from online searches. The findings show that there is very little published evidence around people with disabilities and the energy transition, but many points stated on WEE also apply to the economic empowerment of people with disabilities.

• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021

This evidence digest includes a guest blog on prioritising disability inclusion in climate action, and the latest evidence and guidance on disability inclusion, at time of writing. This includes programme learning, the impacts of COVID-19, and finance for disability inclusion.

• Zimbabwe
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2021

This guidance note guides practitioners on integrating climate considerations into social protection, emphasising its importance, proposing adaptation strategies, and providing key resources.Climate change will reshape the challenges social protection policies address, necessitating significant adjustments.Social protection can help mitigate climate-induced poverty, support resilience and adaptation, and contribute to environmental sustainability. To remain effective, programs must expand coverage, adapt to mass climate shocks, and include vulnerable groups like migrants and urban populations.

• Bangladesh
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Niger
• Somalia
• Zambia
• Social Protection
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2023

The toolkit builds on the WOW programme’s recent work which investigated how women are affected disproportionately by climate change across various supply chains and worked with companies who are identifying opportunities for achieving a gender-just transition to net zero.

• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2024

This tool guides FCDO staff in integrating five core environmental principles—integration, prevention, rectification at source, polluter pays, and precautionary—into policy development. It provides a structured framework with targeted questions to ensure environmental considerations are embedded in decision-making processes. After internal trials, the Energy, Climate and Environment Directorate implemented the tool across the FCDO on November 1, 2023, aligning with the statutory duty's commencement.

• United Kingdom
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Nature Facility
• 2023

The purpose of the primer is to help the UK government in its thinking around how to better understand the differential effects of climate change and support the inclusion of women in climate action. The primer brings together the latest thinking about how women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and climate change intersect, specifically how climate action can support women’s economic empowerment and how women’s economic empowerment can contribute to climate and environmental outcomes.

• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021