GTZ Climate Protection Programme publishes news on adaptation to climate change from and for the development community. The newsletter is released four times per year.

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Selected articles

• Daring to Be More Inclusive: Poorest Salvage Moral Victory from the Jaws of Copenhagen Climate Deadlock
  Bonn, 21 December 2009. Until the closing moments of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, the poorest developing countries feared they had failed to exert much influence on the outcome of the climate talks. Yet these apparently ‘weaker’ nations eventually made their mark, and this was the dawn of a new era in international climate negotiations.
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• OECD/DAC Introducing a New Rio Marker for Adaptation
  On Wednesday, 9 December 2009, Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) approved a policy marker to track official development assistance (ODA) in support of climate change adaptation.
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• Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
  Climate change is a major threat to sustainable growth and development in Africa. Urgent action is needed. This includes the provision of more support through international cooperation to our partner countries in their struggle to adapt to climatic changes.
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• Uganda: Experiences with Implementing NAPAs
  Interview with Fred Onduri (Uganda), Chair of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group at the UNFCCC. The questions were asked by Nana Künkel, GTZ Climate Protection Programme.
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• Mainstreaming Adaptation – Guidance and Tools
  Eighty participants from twenty-nine countries took part in an international workshop on “Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change – Guidance and Tools” organised by BMZ/GTZ, DFID, USAID and the World Bank.
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• The World Climate Conference 3
  Interview with Stefan Rösner, Deutscher Wetterdienst, on the occasion of the World Climate Conference 3. The questions were asked by Michael Scholze, GTZ Climate Protection Programme.
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• Water and adaptation: Money alone is not enough!
  Adaptation to climate change is a top priority in the international water agenda. There is no international conference on water that does not emphasise on the critical role of the water sector in climate change adaptation.
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• Financing the Climate Agenda: Development Perspective
  As the Copenhagen climate conference approaches, climate finance in a post-2012 international climate change regime has become a central negotiation issue. One key question is what amounts are needed to support the implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures in developing countries.
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• Adaptation to climate change in practical development work
  While the international political debate largely revolves around how much adaptation is required by whom, how to finance it and how to support it, practical development cooperation is faced with the question of how adaptation can get off the ground.
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• How operational is the Adaptation Fund?
  In Bali back in 2007, the Parties reached an agreement on the governance structure for the Adaptation Fund (AF), and it was thought that the Fund would be quickly operational. 14 months later considerable progress has clearly been made, but the net result is that the AF is not yet in a position to receive project and programme proposals.
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