Governing Transboundary Climate Risks
The global effects of climate change require solutions beyond the adaptation efforts of any single actor. Managing transboundary climate risks will require collaborative approaches that cross borders, where actors engage with one another to identify shared risks and potential opportunities. This category explores avenues to enhance regional and global adaptation efforts to better manage and address transboundary climate risks.
Transboundary climate risks and adaptation in mountain areas: a brief for Parties and Observers to the UNFCCC
This brief highlights why it is crucial for transboundary climate risks and mountain areas to be accounted for across different negotiation tracks. It also lays out concrete recommendations for UNFCCC Parties and Observers on the road to COP29 and beyond.
Strengthening regional cooperation to address cascading climate risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Learn about the barriers and enablers of enhanced regional cooperation on adaptation to manage the cascading impacts of climate change in this 8th APAN forum event. The event focused on mountainous regions, such as the Hindu Kush Himalaya, and how these regions can tackle cascading risks and scale up solutions.
Solution Story: Reducing the risk from Himalayan tsunamis – How global cooperation is helping mountain regions meet the growing threat from glacial lake outburst floods
Discover this Solution Story describing how global cooperation is helping mountain regions meet the growing threat from glacial lake outburst floods.
Mountain Governance Dialogue: Andean platform and regional / intergovernmental programs work together to strengthen the Andean Mountain Initiative
This event recognised governance experiences of platforms in mountain areas of the world, identified opportunities for synergies at the regional and global level, and identified opportunities and collected inputs for strengthening the Andean Mountain Initiative through exchanges and training.