Climate Prep

Welcome!

I’m the Publisher for ClimatePrep and have been funded by HSBC for about two and a half years. The team I work with includes the rest of the ClimatePrep staff (Eliot, Daphne, and Ryan), other WWF-US technical staff around water science and management, and a broad network in the UK, Brazil, India, and China.

About three years ago, HSBC gave WWF a mission: to manage water in four basins around the world in a way that is sustainable, good for species and ecosystems, and that is resilient as climate change alters our precipitation, water quality and quantity, and flow regimes. As a scientist hired as a kind of consultant for the HSBC teams, I was amazed by the scope of the mission we had. In my experience, there is no comparable program globally.

In this space, you’ll see and hear a lot of stories that go beyond the four HSBC target countries. That’s because we’ve learned a lot about how to secure water resources for people and nature in a shifting climate from those initial rivers and are actively spreading these lessons around the more than 100 countries where WWF works. Lessons we’ve learned in India are being used in the Danube of central and eastern Europe, and ideas from Brazil are exchanged with the Mekong in southeast Asia.

We hope you’ll stay tuned and in touch!

Most recent entries:

Friends in High Places (May 20, 2010)
John weaves together the story of John Wesley Powell’s views of the American West in the 19th century with an account of two insightful meetings in China.

The Bright Red Line of Faith (May 18, 2010)
A source of life and sanctuary for the dead, the Ganges river is both worshipped and mistreated as it winds from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean. In this entry John describes his encounter with “Mother Ganges.”