The Importance of Protected Areas as National Adaptation and Mitigation Responses to Climate Change

Carolina Figueroa, Parques Nacionales de Colombia

Cocuy National Natural is located in the high Andes and conserves a few of the remaining glaciars in Colombia. © Carolina Figueroa

In Colombia, recent extreme weather events have led to damaging floods in the Andean and the Caribbean region. Thousands of people have lost their houses and [...]

Thoughts on Managing Change, from Jared Diamond

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, [...]

How is Climate Change Adaptation Different from Business as Usual?

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US

©Martin Harvey, WWF

“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 [...]