Adapting to climate change presents a monumental task for a world already struggling to overcome pervasive development challenges including hunger, water scarcity and lack of basic human services.

Already, the world is experiencing the destructive effects of rising global temperatures, altered rainfall patterns and extreme weather. Short term, such impacts create pressing needs for disaster relief, such as followed the recent unprecedented floods in Pakistan and heatwave in Russia. Longer term effects will continue for decades, with intensifying and wide-ranging impacts on agriculture, water supplies and other ecosystems, and human habitation.

To build climate resilience, developing country national decision makers urgently need to integrate climate change risks into planning and policies across sectors such as agriculture, electricity production and forestry and water management.

The World Resources Report will provide practical guidance and information about integrating climate risks to policy makers and officials, based on extensive research and analysis. That agenda includes: