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 By Carina Bachofen Three Bengali women in Dhaka. By Ahron de Leeuw via Wikimedia Commons Last year marked the three-year anniversary of Cyclone Sidr, which ravaged the southern coast of Bangladesh and claimed the lives of 3,500 people. Loss of life was exacerbated by loss of development potential as the fierce storm decimated the mud [...]  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 [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Jared Diamond © Becky Hale via National Geographic 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 [...]  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 [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Click the image to download a copy of Flowing Forward 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 [...] 
By Eliot Levine, WWF-US A recent UN policy brief discusses why water-related climate change adaptation is critical for achieving sustainable development around the world. As significant water shortages already exist, water is the medium through which climate impacts are going to be felt most immediately and most severely by many people. “Adaptation to climate change is urgent. Water [...] |
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