GIZ 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

• New IPCC Special Report: Extreme events
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Special Report on ‘Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ (SREX) in November 2011. It is the work of an international team of 220 experts who have assessed current knowledge about climate science, climate change impacts, adaptation, and disaster risk management.
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• A brief update on the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
  Climate change can stall poverty reduction and reverse achievements in human development. Adaptation to climate change must therefore be integrated into poverty reduction strategies and national development planning.
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• Climate change adaptation – finding new opportunities for private sector engagement
  How are business and production affected by climate change impacts? And in which situations are investments in adaptation measures cost-effective and sustainable? Efforts to understand the opportunities and challenges that climate change adaptation presents for the private sector are relatively new, but urgently needed.
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• National Adaptation Plans for least developed countries in the UNFCCC process
  An interview with Erwin Künzi, Senior Advisor, Environment and Natural Resources at the Austrian Development Agency, and Jan Verhagen, researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, focusing on adaptation and mitigation in agricultural systems. Both are members of the Least Developed Country Expert Group of the UNFCCC.
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• Working towards climate-compatible development
  What is the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), and how does it work? Alexander Fröde of GIZ’s Climate Change Task Force talked to Sam Bickersteth, Chief Executive Officer of the CDKN.
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• Regional climate change adaptation strategies in Germany
  Climate change is a reality. An increase in the global temperature of at least 2°C by 2100 can no longer be avoided. Ambitious climate protection endeavours can help to prevent even greater and more rapid warming, but climate change is inevitable; it will have an impact, which means that proactive and prompt adaptation measures are crucial.
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• Adaptation and development – experiences from a programme in the Pacific
  Climate change is already a widely observable reality in the Pacific, as it is in many island contexts. The presidents and prime ministers of all the Pacific island states have put it high on their political agenda at home and internationally. Adapting to climate change is essential for the Pacific island states, which together emit only 0.03 per cent of global greenhouse gases.
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• Monitoring and evaluation – tracking the effectiveness of adaptation
  Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plays a central role in capturing whether and how interventions lead to the successful achievement of their objectives. This is of particular importance in the relatively new field of adaptation to climate change, where interventions are still in the phase of being defined and tested.
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• Training course: 'Integrating climate change adaptation into development cooperation'
  What do 'Regional Land Use Planning to Protect Biodiversity', 'Supporting Coffee Growing by Small Farmers' and 'Promoting Infrastructure in Informal Settlements' have in common? All three are GTZ development projects in Africa that could be affected by climate change in the future.
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• The Second International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change - Managing Adaptation Processes
  The Second International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change - Managing Adaptation Processes was held in New Delhi, India from 10 to 12 November 2010. It was hosted by ADB, BMZ/GTZ, DFID, USAID and the World Bank.
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• BMZ: The environmental and climate assessment – a new instrument in German development cooperation
  A new guideline on appraising environmental and climate aspects and incorporating them into bilateral development cooperation projects funded by the German Government comes into force on 1 January 2011.
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• OECD-DAC: Germany’s environmental and climate assessment in the context of the OECD’s adaptation policy
  On 28-29 May 2009, 75 high-level representatives, including 13 ministers, deputy ministers and heads of agencies, along with representatives from all 30 OECD member countries and five countries currently applying for accession to the OECD, participated in a high-level meeting on the environment and development.
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• DED: Environmental and climate assessment in Ghana
  One of the members of DED’s Climate Change Competence Team was in Ghana from 13 to 26 September 2010 with the remit of developing recommendations on how climate aspects might be integrated into DED’s country programme.
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• GTZ: Climate proofing – nature conservation and rural development in Laos
  Environmental and climate impact assessments have already been used in practice in several pilots around the world. They lead to environmental and climate considerations being included in programmes at the design stage and also raise awareness among partners and programme staff. We feature an example from Laos PDR.
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• The role of scientific climate change information for adaptation practice
  Interview with Prof. Martin Todd, Professor of Climate Change, University of Sussex, UK. The questions were asked by Michael Scholze, GTZ Climate Protection Programme.
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• GTZ’s climate proofing for development – a climate perspective on development
  The impacts of climate change on developing countries are manifold. In recent years GTZ has been advising an increasing number of projects on how to adapt to climate change.
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• 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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• No. 10, July 2011
  giz-2011-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-11-10.pdf, 0.10 MB (English)
• No. 9, April 2011
  giz-2011-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-11-09.pdf, 0.14 MB (English)
• No. 8, December 2010
  gtz-2010-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-10-08.pdf, 0.11 MB (English)
• No. 7, November 2010
  gtz-2010-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-10-07.pdf, 0.16 MB (English)
• No. 6, July 2010
  gtz-2010-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-10-06.pdf, 0.10 MB (English)
• No. 5, March 2010
  gtz-2010-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-10-05.pdf, 0.12 MB (English)
• No. 4, December 2009
  gtz-2009-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-09-04.pdf, 0.00 MB (English)
• No. 3, September 2009
  gtz-2009-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-09-03.pdf, 0.09 MB (English)
• No. 2, May 2009
  gtz-2009-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-09-02.pdf, 0.14 MB (English)
• No. 1, February 2009
  gtz-2009-en-climate-newsletter-adapt-09-01.pdf, 0.17 MB (English)