Stories: Vulnerability and Adaptation

This piece was written with analysis from Athena Ballesteros, Edward Cameron, Yamide Dagnet, Florence Daviet, Aarjan Dixit, Heather McGray, and Clifford Polycarp.

As negotiators in Doha move toward a new global climate agreement this week, politicians and planner

What is the best way to protect vulnerable rural communities from the damaging impacts of climate change? Insurance could be an answer, but it raises a number of difficult questions.

What do you do when extended droughts make your family’s traditional farming vocation harder and harder to sustain?

This post was written with Youba Sokona, coordinator of the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) at the United Nations Economic Commission

This week, WRI released a new report summarizing assessments of institutional readiness for adapting to climate change.

This piece was written with Polly Ghazi, Writer/Editor for the World Resources Report.

The Cancun Adaptation Framework agreed during COP16 provides potential for a new action orientation to adaptation under the UNFCCC.

WRI’s new report, Making Adaptation Count, proposes a framework for monitoring and evaluating adaptat