ClimatePrep

Stacy Vynne, The Resource Innovation Group The question of how to design and implement effective adaptation measures is one that I think most adaptation practitioners are still struggling with, and will continue to struggle with, for many years to come. With hundreds of adaptation initiatives underway around the world, we are beginning to develop a [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Among US cities, it appears that Chicago is among the most advanced on introducing climate adaptive measures into their planning, according to this New York Times article. If current emissions trends continue, by 2070 Chicago could have a climate that resembles that of today’s southern states of Alabama and Louisiana, with [...]