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Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions With COP17-CM7 underway in Durban, agriculture has a high place on the agenda.  The world’s population has just passed 7 billion people, and is due to reach 8 billion in 14 years’ time.  As if the challenge of population growth is not enough, agriculture is having to adapt to [...]

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 [...]

By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron The Maldives is a country with many pseudonyms and identities. The great Venetian explorer Marco Polo referred to the Maldives as the “flower of the Indies”; to the scores of holidaymakers and honeymooners the island nation is popularly known as the “pearls of the Indian Ocean”. In recent years, as the [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US We recently had the great pleasure of meeting with New York Times bestselling author Jared Diamond (Collapse; Guns, Germs, & Steel) for a wide-ranging conversation, and will post a video of that interview soon. However, to set the stage for our meeting we wrote to Dr. Diamond with some initial questions. This [...]

By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron Speaking at the UN Climate Conference in Bali in December 2007, Al Gore quoted the Spanish poet Antonio Machado telling the assembled delegates, “Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk.” The foundations for the path to climate change adaptation are built upon lessons learned from [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US One of ClimatePrep’s primary goals is to highlight unique solutions to some of the toughest challenges presented by climate change. This week we would like to draw attention to a project in Peru that combines an old technique for gathering water with modern technology to develop a low cost solution to dwindling, [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US The information, graphics, and quotes found in the article below were repurposed from an earlier report on this subject by Scientific American. The original article, with additional pictures can be found here. In India, the ancient kingdom of Ladakh, between Pakistan, Afghanistan and China, is the highest inhabited region on Earth. It [...]

This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon. 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 to both domestic and foreign markets. Climate change is creating difficulties, but not [...]

by Jonathan Cook, WWF-US For the past six months, I have managed a WWF project, supported by the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Program, that tries to address the significant adaptation challenges facing a fascinating but often neglected ecosystem: mangrove forests. Mangroves – the guardians of tropical coastlines – are among the many ecosystems [...]