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Eliot Levine, Jonathan Cook, Sarah Freeman (WWF-US) “Adaptation is not a specialist issue — it’s an issue of how decisions are made, and how to utilize the information provided by specialists in the process of decision making”. – Workshop Participant, 2011 World Water Week Water management institutions are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that [...]

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions With COP17-CM7 underway in Durban, agriculture has a high place on the agenda.  The world’s population has just passed 7 billion people, and is due to reach 8 billion in 14 years’ time.  As if the challenge of population growth is not enough, agriculture is having to adapt to [...]

By Jonathan Randall, Millennium Challenge Corporation Imagine you are walking down the street on your way to your favorite sandwich shop.  You are dreaming about the amazing chicken sandwich you are about to order when all of a sudden an activist from Veggie Lovers Unite! hands you a flyer.On the front page it says “Switch [...]

By: Stacy Vynne, the Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) For the past four years, the organization that I work for, The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), has been running a series of Climate Futures Forums in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Forums are essentially based on the principles of Community Based Adaptation (CBA) [...]

By Devyani Parameshwar, Intellcap While mitigating the future rise in global temperature has received much attention worldwide, support to help those vulnerable adapt to the inevitable impacts of rising temperature has been limited. The estimated annual cost of adaptation is USD 100 bn, and bilateral and multilateral funding pledges form just a fraction of this [...]

By Shaun Martin, WWF-US It can be challenging to find climate change adaptation resources that explain complex concepts to lay audiences in easy-to-understand language. Academic journal articles, project case studies, vulnerability assessments, and the like often speak to the experts rather than newcomers. Providing these types of documents to those new to the field is [...]

By Jessica Frank, Twin Twin works in partnership with over 50 farmer organisations world wide, facilitating market access and helping to build business and organisational capacity. We are currently developing our strategy to support smallholder producer organisations to effectively plan adaptation interventions with their members; an initial project with Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative Enterprises in Uganda [...]

By Dr. Nathaniel Seavy and Tom Gardali, PRBO Conservation Science PRBO Conservation Science is a non-profit organization with a mission to conserve birds, other wildlife, and ecosystems through innovative scientific research and outreach.  PRBO’s highest priority is to develop and promote conservation practices that address the challenges of rapid environmental change. Since the early 1980’s, [...]

By Geoff Barnard, Climate and Development Knowledge Network The symptoms are familiar.  You seem to hear about a new climate information portal or knowledge platform being launched every week.  You check it out and it seems impressive at first glance.  Nice graphics.  Promising headings. Ambitious objectives. Cool tools. But as you click further you start [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond  is a world-renowned expert on ancient societies. His now  famous book, Collapse, is a study of the choices societies have made throughout history in the face of change – climate change,  as well as others — and the consequences of such choices. In early 2011, my colleague, [...]