Climate Futures Forums: A Participatory Approach to Adaptation Planning in the United States

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) [...]

Identifying Opportunities & Assessing Vulnerability: Essential Characteristics of Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Last August I found myself in a dark room at a conference facility outside of Delhi, listening to what was meant to be an adaptation talk.  The speaker was supposed to be walking us through adaptation options for conservationists and natural resource planners in India, but with only 15 minutes left [...]

Igniting the Fuse: Raising Awareness and Countering Common Misperceptions on Adaptation

By Shaun Martin, WWF-US At a recent gathering of 200 conservationists, a speaker asked her audience to identify which of the following activities were examples of “adaptation,” – restoring mangroves, removing dams, introducing new crops, building corridors, or promoting community forestry. Almost in unison, the audience answered that all of these were examples of adaptation. Wrong. [...]

Flowing Forward: Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Water Sector Projects

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Periodically on ClimatePrep we like to draw attention to new and interesting publications that we feel are worth highlighting. This week we would like to point out Flowing Forward, a new report written by WWF for the World Bank. Flowing Forward provides guiding principles, processes, and methodologies for incorporating climate change adaptation [...]

Home on the Range? Planning for Change on the Prairies

By Anne Schrag, WWF-US In April, I was stymied by a late-season blizzard; in mid-June, extreme flooding washed out a section of Trans-Canada Highway.  Finally, in late June I was able to make the drive from our Bozeman, Montana field office to Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan to lead a planning workshop on climate adaptation. The direct [...]

Video: Marianne Fish on Coastal Adaptation with a Species Focus

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US As part of ClimatePrep.org’s continuing feature on sea turtles and adaptation, we interviewed Marianne Fish, Program Leader for Marine and Coastal Adaptation with WWF – Latin America and the Caribbean. She spoke about incorporating adaptation into existing conservation efforts, “no regrets” strategies, and how sea turtles are a focal species for adaptation [...]

Helping Coral Reefs Adapt – An Innovative Approach

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US The Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminars bring distinguished scientists from a variety of fields to present cutting edge research of central importance to international conservation. Dr. Andrew Baker, an Assistant Professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami, presented in 2009. He discussed the effects of climate change [...]