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Lessons Learned from an Arctic Resilience Assessment

Susan Evans, WWF Canada

As a Canadian working in the field of climate change adaptation, it should come as no surprise that my first foray into applying my knowledge on the ground was in the Arctic, where change is happening faster than anywhere else on the planet!

In 2009, [...]

Resilience Regionalism in Southeast Florida: A Governance Model for Climate Adaptation

Steve Adams, Senior Advisor for Climate Adaptation – Institute for Sustainable Communities

Signed in 2009, the four counties committed to developing a region-wide climate action plan.

Since 2008, adaptation has rapidly climbed the policy agenda at every level of government. Previous posts here at ClimatePrep have documented the leading efforts across the US and [...]

Safe Islands in an Ocean of Trouble: Adaptation in the Maldives

By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron

Malé, capital of Maldives © Shahee Ilyas

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 [...]

What Price Adaptation? What Does Good Adaptation Look Like?

By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron

"Simply recognizing what constitutes good adaptation and how to avoid maladaptive practices can significantly reduce overall costs and go a long way towards ensuring long-term resilience." © Kate Holt

Assessments of the global cost of adaptation have varied drastically, ranging from $4-109 billion per year. The World Bank [...]

Pushing Adaptation Policy: Not an Easy Task

This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Danube-Carpathian region.

Flock in flight. Danube River on the Romanian/Bulgarian border © Anton Vorauer/WWF-Canon

Compared to other river systems such as the Ganges river in south Asia, the Danube basin is not likely to be dramatically affected by climate change. Nevertheless, some parts [...]

Farming with the Titimangsa: Losing Weather (and Water) in Time

By Nikolai Sindorf, WWF-US

In 1997 I went to the western part of Java in Indonesia to perform research on agricultural water management. Java is one of the most densely populated regions and high-yielding rice paddy lands in the world. The focus [...]

Notes from Copenhagen: Water and Climate Change

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US

On 12 December 2009, WWF-US CEO Carter Roberts spoke to a distinguished group in Denmark’s Kronborg Castle at an event organized by TERI and the Yale School of Forestry and sponsored by Coca-Cola. In a session moderated by Rajenda Pachauri, head of the IPCC, Roberts spoke about the importance of water and [...]

Notes from Copenhagen: Adaptation support key

The world’s wealthy nations have a long way to go on the key negotiating element of climate change adaptation at Copenhagen, WWF warned today “climate change adaptation mechanisms and measures and especially finance must be a key part of any successful deal reached at Copenhagen, but it is an issue starved of attention, commitments and [...]

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