Policy Gaps & Needs Analysis for the Implementation of Adaptation and Loss & Damage NDCs of Sri Lanka, Nepal & Bangladesh

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SLYCAN Trust

Gender Sensitive NDCs and the Development of Gender Action Plans at the Country Level

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate Displacement and Internal Migration in Sri Lanka.

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate Change and Agricultural Insurance in Sri Lanka

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SLYCAN Trust

Community-Based Mangrove Conversation and Restoration using Local and Technical Knowledge

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SLYCAN Trust

Reviewing Adaptation Actions in the Urban, City Planning, and Human Settlement Sector

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SLYCAN Trust

A stakeholder consultation on the urban, city planning, and human settlement sector of Sri Lanka was held at the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment on 26th July 2019. Initiated by the Climate Change Secretariat and organised with the technical support of SLYCAN Trust, it focused on the review and update of Sri Lanka’s Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plan relating to the urban, city planning and human settlement sector. Experts from government institutes and international organizations contributed to the discussion.

Building Resilience through Economic Diversification

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SLYCAN Trust

With global attention focused on the implementation of adaptation activities to address the impacts of climate change and efforts towards climate-resilient development, economic diversification has been viewed as a means of a country’s drive towards sustainable economic growth and stability.

Impacts of Salinisation on Agricultural Livelihoods

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SLYCAN Trust

Agriculture is one of the main sectors impacted by the impacts of climate change and its effects are very much felt due to the dependency on the natural resources that this livelihood has. Among the impacts on the agriculture sector are the impacts of the slow onset events of climate change.

Accessing Climate Finance and Gender Sensitive Climate Action

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate change renders women disproportionately vulnerable to its impacts as a result of persisting gender norms and discrimination. This is evidenced in terms of the impacts of climate change affecting scarcity of water, food security, disaster situations and fuel shortage, thereby having a drastic impact on women’s human rights as well as on gender equalit

Moving Grounds: Climate Migration and Refugees

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SLYCAN Trust

As climate change alters long-term weather patterns and leads to increasing droughts, floods, and storms, more and more people are turned into climate migrants a

Women, Children and Climate Change: The Struggles of Vulnerable Groups Forced to Move

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SLYCAN Trust

In the past decade, extreme weather events have been triggered all over Sri Lanka, taking place more and more frequently and intensely. The severe drought conditions in districts such as Jaffna and Polonnaruwa have continued unceasingly since 2016. More recently, the intense floods experienced in May-June 2018 in most Southwestern and Central regions of Sri Lanka saw the displacement of tens of thousands of families.

Climate Migration: The New Wave of Refugees?

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate change is considered the greatest threat that Earth has to counter in this century. Due to intensified human activity and unsustainable use of the planet’s resources, the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased while the planet’s ability to absorb the excess carbon dioxide has decreased due to the elimination and degradation of natural carbon sinks such as forests and oceans. This imbalance in the atmosphere has led to increased global warming over a long period of time, and scientists have confirmed the existence of climate change.

Colombo's Urban Wetlands: On Becoming and Staying a Ramsar Wetland City

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SLYCAN Trust

The city of Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka and its economic, political, and cultural focal point. Since October 2018, it is also South Asia's only Wetland City under the Ramsar Convention. With concerted efforts from government, communities, and all affected stakeholders, this opens the way for Colombo to become a model for urban wetland conservation and benefit from the many ecosystem services they offer.

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation with the SDGs and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

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SLYCAN Trust

Three landmark global agendas were produced in 2015: the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.[1]

Sri Lanka's Preparedness to Address Climate Hazards

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SLYCAN Trust

Sri Lanka, being a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has submitted its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2016.