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This study explores how value-led design and the multi-level perspective (MLP) can mediate between scientific climate knowledge and traditional cosmologies to strengthen adaptation in Kenya's Maasai Mara region. The authors argue that this participatory approach advances equity by centering community voices and values, helping to create regenerative futures and safeguarding against maladaptation by bridging the gap between science and society.

This guide provides a decision-support tool for public finance providers to assess the quality of adaptation finance across project, market, and system levels. It defines high-quality adaptation finance as capital deployed efficiently to deliver resilience while moving solutions toward commercial viability or sustaining necessary public services. The tool uses a three-stage qualitative framework—Initial, Progressing, and Transformative—to diagnose strengths and gaps in interventions across grants, debt, equity, and risk transfer tools.

The Stockholm Environment Institute's 'Systemic climate adaptation framework' is a normative and analytical guide designed to help policymakers and practitioners move beyond fragmented, hazard-based approaches to climate adaptation. It provides a structure of three core pillars and six guiding principles to ensure adaptation policy is coherent, equitable, and robust under deep uncertainty.

This report by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines the gap between the recognition of systemic climate risks—interconnected risks across hazards, sectors, and borders—and their operationalization in adaptation governance. Through a comparative analysis of Europe, Southeast Asia, and the United States, the authors find that while systemic language is increasingly present in high-level strategies, day-to-day decision-making, funding, and mandates remain fragmented and focused on individual hazards or sectors. The report proposes a conceptual framework for systemic adaptation based on systemic risk framing, policy interlinkages, and the management of deep uncertainty.

The 'Criteria for Certification against the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy' provides interim guidelines for certifying climate resilience investments listed in the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT). It establishes a three-part requirement for certification: demonstrating a substantial contribution to resilience, managing maladaptation risks, and ensuring no significant harm to climate mitigation objectives. The document details the assessment processes for different investment types, including adapted activities, adapting measures, enabling activities, and enabling measures.

This technical brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) summarizes key findings from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (Working Group II) regarding gender, equity, and justice in climate change adaptation. It translates technical scientific data into accessible messages and illustrative examples, specifically contextualized for African geographies, to help practitioners implement more inclusive and effective adaptation strategies.

The Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) Methodology provides a science-based classification system and interim screening criteria to identify and scale investments that contribute to climate adaptation and resilience. It establishes a framework to distinguish between different types of resilience investments and ensures they provide a measurable reduction in vulnerability without causing maladaptation or significant harm to other sustainability goals.

This fact sheet, published by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network in 2022, distils findings from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report regarding climate change impacts, future risks, and adaptation strategies specifically for Central Africa.

This research paper examines whether climate change adaptation efforts inadvertently shift risks and vulnerabilities between different people and places, concluding that such redistribution is largely ignored in practice and empirical research.

This briefing by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) outlines the political and economic requirements for countries to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris climate agreement. It emphasizes the need for 'climate compatible development' that balances emission reductions with poverty eradication and sustainable development, particularly in developing nations.

This policy brief analyzes the Green Climate Fund's (GCF) role as a primary financier for climate change adaptation in 2015. It outlines key tasks for the GCF to ensure effective, country-owned adaptation, including the scaling of direct access for national institutions, the piloting of 'enhanced direct access' through small grants, and the development of robust investment and accountability frameworks that avoid maladaptation.

This research paper examines the social dimensions of vulnerability to climate change in the UK, arguing that adaptation strategies often overlook the distribution of vulnerability among marginalized groups and may inadvertently reinforce existing inequalities.

This briefing, published by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network in 2014, distils the findings of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report specifically for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It outlines the observed and projected impacts of climate change on SIDS, including sea level rise, temperature increases, and the degradation of critical ecosystems like coral reefs. The document discusses the high economic costs of adaptation relative to SIDS' GDP, the risks of 'maladaptation', and the necessity of international cooperation and finance to avert existential threats to atoll nations.

This report, produced by Adapting to Climate Change in China and others, identifies opportunities for South-South cooperation and learning to integrate climate adaptation into development processes, aiming to prevent maladaptation and benefit developing countries and communities.

The Climate and Development Research Review is an executive summary of a meta-synthesis of 572 research papers published between January 2010 and August 2011. It identifies four primary themes in climate-compatible development: decision-making under uncertainty, natural resource management, climate finance, and the low-carbon transition. The document emphasizes the need for adaptive, people-centered policies grounded in local realities to avoid 'maladaptation' and the necessity of systemic public policy changes to achieve a low-carbon transition.

The 'Advancing Resilience Measurement' report documents a consultation held on May 17-18, 2022, in Washington, D.C., convened by the University of Arizona, the Global Resilience Partnership, and USAID. The event brought together 50 experts to establish core principles and priorities for measuring resilience across four thematic areas: demand-driven evidence, psychosocial well-being, systems resilience, and climate adaptation. The report aims to address gaps in current measurement approaches to better inform development policy and programming.