"Today, as negotiators haggle over the details of a climate agreement in Paris, my home town in southern India is literally underwater," says Arivudai Nambi Appadurai, WRI India's Adaptation Strategy Head for Climate Resilience Practice. "Chennai has seen 17 days straight of rain, precisely the kind of extreme weather event that experts say will only become more common in a warming world."
PRICES MAY VARY. As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now. While large-scale innovations in policy and technology are necessary to preserve the planet, the wisest and most lasting adaptation solutions originate at the local level. However, with something as large as the climate crisis, it can be hard to know where to begin. Climate Action for Busy People is a hopeful
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Rainwater evaporation areas between the houses ©Thorbjørn Hansen Sustainable Stormwater Management in Kirkebjerg Location: Brøndby, Denmark Size: 10 ha Project duration: 2018 – 2019 Client: Gaihede a/s Project type: participation and site planning In Denmark, the consequences of climate change were felt early on, particularly due to increasing ...Read more
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Senior fellow David Wheeler quantifies and makes available in an accompanying database the vulnerability of 233 countries to three major effects of climate change (weather-related disasters, sea-level rise, and reduced agricultural productivity) and develops a methodology for donors and other to craft cost-effective assistance for climate adaptation.
Yes, the world needs to reduce carbon emissions, but that's not enough. Technologists need to step in and start developing work-arounds of all kinds.
This research area focuses on climate risk management, addressing questions of how we can improve the resilience of countries, companies and communities to current and future changes to the climate. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken, including from human geography and economics perspectives.
Climate News Network: Airborne corridors which carry huge volumes of water, are set to get larger, causing more catastrophic floods
Proponents who unsuccessfully pushed for government funding to shore up the local harbour of a picturesque Nova Scotia fishing village against climate change say the costly washout of a section of road during Thursday’s flash floods was both predictable and preventable.
A Future Scenario workshop by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) was held in one of the two most vulnerable regions of Honduras, Choluteca, in September this year to test and thoroughly revise a draft climate strategy by the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock. The “Strategy for risk management and climate change adaptation
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We're harvesting data from Twitter with Right Relevance to build maps that show how influencers within the climate change conversation shift over time.
Researchers say sea levels could also rise by six metres or more even if 2 degree target of Paris accord met
Our drain pipes, reservoirs, power lines, roads, sewage systems and more are all designed based on past climate data. But with the climate crisis comes the uncomfortable realisation that the past can't predict what we'll need in the future.
A 600-plus-page report from the National Academies of Science includes 80 recommendations for how the U.S. can achieve its target of net-zero emissions by 2050.
