The purpose of “The Social Dimension of Ecosystem-based Adaptation” is to address and raise awareness of the social dimension of ecosystem-based adaptation, focusing on social impacts of EbA and on social considerations in designing and implementing EbA. It can be downloaded from:
 

Climate change is already threatening the well-being of millions of people, and a new academic article discusses the potential of EbA to address these social impacts.
Citation: Richard Munang, Jesica Andrews, Keith Alverson and Desta Mebratu, “Harnessing Ecosystem-based Adaptation To Addres...

The new IPCC report, released in March 2014, warns that climate change is already having substantial effects on every continent and that its negative effects will continue to grow substantially unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.
After more than five years, the “Working G...

The report from the University of Aarhus and the Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, published in 2014, is freely available online (English), and is focused on interventions in the urban context.
Citation:
Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Ecosystem based approaches to cl...

An article in the Climate and development journal concludes that the literature on EbA interventions on climate variability, change, extremes and natural hazards contains information supporting the EbA approach, but also asserts that the evidence base has a number of gaps that must be addressed.

The fifth assessment report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) appeared in full and final version on January 30th, 2014. The report states that human influence on the climate system is clear and has been the main cause of warming. The evidence has been increasing ...