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 [...]

Editor’s Field Journal: Friends in High Places

By John Matthews, CI  I have just returned from the first of three quick trips to China. Even by my standards, the first journey was extremely peripatetic, full of constant motion. But sometimes having so many changes in quick succession shows surprising connections — hidden threads and themes. Share/Save //

Getting Better Together

Ashes await the return of the river (c)John Matthews/WWF-US

By John Matthews, CI When I was in graduate school, I spent a lot of time reading mostly abstract scientific papers about how the world’s climate was shifting. My time in the field was spent measuring how changes in rainfall and air temperatures have been affecting dragonflies. I began to feel very worried about how even [...]

First Encounters

Fishermen on a boat carrying wood. Danube Delta, Romania Project (c) WWF-Canon / Michel GUNTHER

  This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Danube-Carpathian region.  “For this freshwater strategy meeting, we should invite someone from the climate group, you know, to see what they have got to say.” “Ok, let’s see who we can contact.” This is more or less how it all started in the summer [...]