ClimatePrep

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 Regie Junio, Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Philippines       Three years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a non-government organization in implementing development projects funded by official development assistance. One of the main objectives of the project was to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) through a participatory coastal resources management approach (PCRM) in the [...]

By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Ecosystem-based Adaptation. If you understand what adaptation is, then the term “ecosystem-based adaptation,” or EbA, should be self-explanatory. But it’s not. There is perhaps no concept more confusing or misunderstood than this one. So what does Ecosystem-based Adaptation really mean and why are we so confused about it? To understand the [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US “How is climate adaptation work different than what I have been doing?” This is the number one question I hear as a member of the adaptation team here at WWF-US. From San Francisco to Nairobi to Hanoi, it’s everyone’s first question at the beginning of a meeting or at a start of [...]

By John Matthews, CI An enormous amount of attention has been paid to the loss of the ancient glaciers in the Himalayas and across the Tibetan plateau. Their retreat and the loss of glacial mass have been tied to rising air temperatures, longer warm seasons, and shifting precipitation patterns. But while dramatic and newsworthy, the loss [...]