climate change adaptation projects

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Drought and desertification have become increasingly pressing problems for a growing number of countries. The UN estimates land degradation costs between 3-5 percent of global agricultural Gross Domestic Production.[read more]

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In many ways meeting the challenge of climate change and sustainable development is often most effective at the municipal level. Cities strike a balance between meeting the diverse needs of its inhabitants with the ability to adopt and adapt to the realities and challenges of global warming, development, infrastructure and energy.[read more]

Denmark, Switzerland and Australia rank 1, 2 and 3 in terms of resiliency to climate change, according to the GAIN Index 2012, an open-access, open-source and open-data online tool that in addition to summarizing, scoring and ranking 176 countries’ resiliency to climate change can be used by public and private sector planners and...[read more]

Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York CityOn Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works committee takes up the important issue of climate change science and adaptation.Hopefully, it's a first step toward some real solutions to address record heat, drought, storms and other effects of climate change that we're now all...[read more]

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Today’s Senate hearing isn’t just about the science of climate change. It’s also about the actions that need to be taken now to adapt to the reality of a changing climate. Businesses and governments each have a critical role to play in building resilient communities and economies.[read more]

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The dust is still settling on the recent United Nation’s Rio+20 environmental summit, and reactions range from disappointment at the lack of national governmental consensus to optimism at the range and success of local governmental and corporate actions.  None of this alters the fact that climate change is a slow-moving disaster...[read more]

Global climate is on track for changes including a greater than 2°C rise in average temperature, and that’s going to result in adaptation costs for developing countries well above the World Bank’s 2°C estimate of $70 billion by 2020 and as much as $100 billion per year by 2050.[read more]

Several scientific reports now indicate that, even while advocating a 1.5 to 2 C degree rise in average global temperatures over the next century, we may now be at or even passed critical tipping points and heading into a world of irreversible global warming.[read more]