A New Year’s Resolution for Everyone: Developing Useful Adaptation Case Studies

By Shaun Martin, WWF-US

Workshop Participants in Kota Kinabalu ©Shaun Martin

I don’t know about you, but I have had my fill of boring PowerPoint presentations that have little relevance to my work. I just can’t take it anymore – and that’s unfortunate, because recently I am listening to a lot of presentations. So in [...]

Building Climate Adaptation Capacity in Amazon Floodplain Communities

This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Figure 1. Location of the community of Igarape do Costa © WWF-Brazil

Located in the lower Amazon floodplain of Brazil, the Santarém region harbors important fisheries that many people depend on for employment, food security, government tax revenues, and items to export [...]

Notes from Copenhagen: Adaptation support key

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, commitments and [...]