Climate Prep

Jojo Binay, the newly elected Vice President of the Philippines, spoke at the close of the Asian Development Bank’s Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) this past week. Apart from being his first major policy speech, his remarks at the energy-focused event are noteworthy in that they focused heavily on adaptation.
“The unique circumstances of the Philippines [...]

Here’s a repost from Nick Sundt’s WWF Climate Blog, recounting the recent Adaptation Summit in Washington, published on Mon, 06/07/2010.
The Administration of President Barack Obama took an important step toward national climate change preparedness when it convened on 25-27 May 2010 a National Climate Adaptation Summit in Washington, DC. The stated purpose of the meeting was to “to [...]

From WWF International
The world’s wealthy nations have a long way to go on the key negotiating element of climate change adaptation at Copenhagen, WWF warned today “climate change adaptation mechanisms and measures and especially finance must be a key part of any successful deal reached at Copenhagen, but it is an issue starved of attention, [...]

by John Matthews, WWF-US
Copenhagen is a very open city. For instance, it’s really rare to see a bike in a stand that’s been locked.
This is amazing, given the actual number of bicycles here in Copenhagen. There are counters at some of the major intersections that show the number of bikes that have passed by that [...]