Insights from the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa & Asia

Bruce Currie-Alder

Program Leader

April 2018

Hotspots and CARIAA

Glacier-fed river basins1.3 billion people live in glacier

and snow-fed river basins of Hindu Kush Himalayan

mountain region

Semi-arid regions 2.5 billion people live in

the world’s arid and semi-arid regions

Deltas500 million people

worldwide live in delta regions

Why it works: Collaborative Science

Cross-cutting Themes

• Migration/ mobility• Gender & equity• Economics • Climate science• Scenarios • Research-into-Use

Country Tables

• Ghana• India• Bangladesh• Pakistan• Kenya

Program Strategies

•Knowledge management & Communications•Monitoring and evaluation

1. Climate Hotspots

2. Effective Adaptation

3. Migration

4. Gender & Social Difference

5. Private Adaptation

Key References

• Vulnerability to climate change in three hot spots

in Africa and Asia

• Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change:

insights from the semi-arid regions

• Research-into-Use in CARIAA : guidance note

• A reflection on collaborative adaptation research

in Africa and Asia

• Impact of a global temperature rise of 1.5

degrees Celsius on Asia’s glaciers

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