General documents on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, including policy issues related to climate change adaptation.

1. Confronting climate change: avoiding the unmanageable and managing the unavoidable [United Nations Sigma XI Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change, 2007]
2. Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance [Richard Klein et al., 2007]
3. The Stern Review: the economics of climate change [N. Stern et al., 2006] (executive summary) (link to full report)
4. What does the Stern Report really say? [Dimitri Zenghelis, 2007] (powerpoint presentation) 
5. Putting climate change adaptation in the development mainstream [OECD, 2006]
6. Climate change impacts and risk management: a guide for business and government [Government of Australia, 2006]
7. How will global warming affect my world? A simplied guide to the IPCC's "Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" [UNEP, 2003] 
8. Adapting to climate change: lessons learnt, work in progress, and proposed next steps for the World Bank in Latin America [World Bank, 2005]
9. Poverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation [Piya Abeygunawardena et al.]
10. Surviving climate change in small islands: a guidebook [The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2005]
11. Adaptation to climate change: international policy options [ Pew Centre on Global Climate Change, 2006]
12. Climate change and development [Institute of Development Studies, 2004]
13. Vulnerability, adaptation and climate disasters [Institute of Development Studies, 2004] (Click here for abstracts of articles including case studies) [Institute of Development Studies, 2005]
14. Drying up, drowned out: voices from the developing world on a changing climate [Tearfund, 2005]
15. Adapting to climate change: a check list for development - Guidance for designing development under a changing climate [UK climate change partnerships, 2005]
16. A synthetic assessment of the global distribution of vulnerability to climate change from the IPCC perspective that reflects exposure and adaptive capacity [ Columbia University, 2006]
17. Look before you leap: a risk management approach for incorporating climate change adaptation in World Bank operations [Burton and van Aalst, 2004]
18. The Vital Climate Graphics [UNEP, 2002]
19. The Vital Climate Graphics: the impacts of climate change [UNEP, 2002]
20. The Vital Climate Graphics (update) [UNEP, 2005] 
21. Vital Climate Graphics for Africa; the impacts of climate change (English) (Francais) [UNEP, 2002] 
22. For whom the bell tolls, vulnerability in a changing climate: a synthesis from the AIACC project [N. Leary et al., 2006]
23. A plan of action to support climate change adaptation through scientific capacity, knowledge and research [N. Leary et al., 2006]
24. A summary report on the Development and Adaptation Days at COP12 [IISD, 2006]
25. The impacts of climate change on the risk of natural disasters [M.K. van Aalast, 2006]
26. Financial Risks of Climate Change [ABI: Association of British Insurers, 2005]
27. Social and ecological resilience: are they related? [Adger, N., 2000]
28. Identifying underserved end-user groups in the in the provision of climate information [Emma R.M. Archer, 2003]
29. Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Least Developed Countries (LDCS) [Saleemul Huq, Atiq Rahman et al., 2003]