A curated library of resources to learn about climate change

This video summarises key findings from the latest global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges. Outlining developments in emissions reduction efforts, it also examines the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

This detailed presentation breaks down the state of climate change and decarbonisation; how the world got here, what needs to be done, new trends, and how to think about solving the climate crisis.

As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced through a rapid transformation of societies. This report provides a clear roadmap for required actions.

This working paper describes how India could make progress towards meeting its climate change mitigation commitments, which involve achieving net zero emissions by 2070, by electrifying public transport, decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, and adopting renewable energy.

To aid India’s net-zero journey, this article summaries decarbonisation levers across six key sectors and focuses on four cross-cutting decarbonisation opportunities, including green hydrogen and natural climate solutions.

This report analyses the current state of knowledge regarding the role of nature-based solutions in climate change mitigation, and how such solutions can contribute significantly to keep temperature rising to 1.5 degrees and achieve net-zero by 2050.

This video highlights key findings from the United Nations Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report 2022. It assesses current global efforts, and examines global adaptation finance pathways.

This article breaks down climate change adaptation – focusing on what it means, the different focus areas for adaptation strategies (including climate risks like heat and floods, health, food, water, nature), and potential limits to adapting to climate change.

To make climate change more tangible beyond data, this docu-series captures how communities are building resiliences in some of India’s most climate vulnerable states, such as Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.

This video discusses design interventions and land-use strategies for the most climate-vulnerable areas in the United States of America, and how experts are thinking about ‘everything change’ when it comes to design.

This short video explains how differing backgrounds, genders, and socio-economic realities play a key role in how people experience climate impacts, and why it is essential to account for these for effective decision-making processes.

The report assesses the progress of adaptation actions across the world. It also highlights the benefits of actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt, such as nature-based solutions, and calls for countries to step up funding and implementation of adaptation actions.

This guide highlights how funders and implementing entities can scale up investment for Locally-Led Adaptation (LLA), by showcasing 13 investment-ready delivery mechanisms across continents.

Highlighting the need to invest more in avoiding and reducing climate risks, this article focuses on sector-specific hazard-linked Nature-based Solutions that can restore and rejuvenate natural ecosystems, and mitigate the extent of loss and damage caused due to hydro-met disasters in India.

As climate and disaster risks increase, countries need support to build resilience. This guide outlines the impacts of climate and disaster risks on progress towards achieving the SDGs and suggests appropriate actions.

This podcast series shares perspectives from people involved in just transition efforts around the world — coal plant workers, local politicians, public health activists, scientists and more — to paint a picture of what a just transition should look like.

The world needs to radically switch to a sustainable, net-zero future. This transition needs to happen fast, but it also has to happen in a fair and inclusive way. This article breaks down the momentum around a just transition, and the benefits it offers to the world.

This report incorporates inputs from the 18-member Committe on Just Transition in the coal sector, constituted under the India-US Strategic Partnership. It addresses pre-requisites to enable a just transition, and the implementation of a just transition framework, among other things.

Investors are yet to pay sufficient attention to the social impacts of climate change. This guide outlines a range of existing, well-tested investor approaches to enable a just transition, and provides a framework that individual institutions and collaborative initiatives can apply.

This report details five elements to enable a just transition in India, including restructuring the economy and industries, repurposing land and infrastructure, reskilling existing and skilling new workforce, revenue substitution, and responsible social and environmental practices.

Over the last few years, the issue of loss and damage has become contentious in international climate negotiations, regarding which countries are liable to pay for damages suffered due to climate change. This video traces the issue till COP27, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.

India experienced nearly one disaster a day in the first nine months of 2022 – and this is the new abnormal in a warming world. This report attempts to build an evidence base on the frequency and expanding geography of extreme weather events in India, and consolidate fragmented data.

Climate change is affecting all aspects of human life and the natural world, leading to increasing losses and damages. This report recommends actions to reduce and manage both economic and non-economic losses and damages, with a focus on the role of governments

To sufficiently address long-term, slow-onset changes due to climate change, this report lays out a generic framework to assess and develop measures at various levels to deal with large scale climate vulnerabilities and residual risks that could contribute towards national loss and damage.