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by and - For cities, adapting to climate change doesn't just mean building more things. Good climate adaptation means including and engaging poor and marginalized communities.
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by Isabella Suarez - February 10, 2020Climate solutions are often divided into either mitigation actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or adaptation actions that help people adjust to climate change. But strategies and technologies that do both at once exist, and should be top priorities.
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$350,000 to be awarded to transformative urban initiatives tackling the climate crisis and inequality around the world.
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by Talia Chorover and Jessica Arriens - January 06, 2020After Typhoon Ondoy struck an informal settlement in Pasig City, the government wanted to relocate residents up to 60 miles away. Instead, they built their own apartment complex designed to withstand floods and storms.
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by Maria Hart, Jillian Du and Caroline Coccoli - December 12, 2019Urban climate action is good for the planet. How do you make it good for people, too?
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by Steve Gaines, Erin OReilly, Eliza Northrop and Lauretta Burke - December 10, 2019Coral reef tourism, worth $35.8 billion globally every year, could experience revenue losses of over 90% based on the current trajectory of warming. Here's how ocean industries can try to avoid that kind of devastation.
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by Miguel Calmon and Rafael Feltran-Barbieri - December 05, 2019Countries that rely on agricultural exports need to start thinking now about how they can protect that trade by boosting agricultural resilience to climate impacts.
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by Taryn Fransen, Ben Welle, Camron Gorguinpour, Margaret McCall, Ranping Song and Alexander Tankou - December 2019This paper discusses steps countries can take to incorporate ambitious, relevant, and tangible transportation solutions into enhanced NDCs for communication to UNFCCC by 2020.
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by Subrata Chakrabarty, Noëmie Leprince-Ringuet, Ranping Song and Alexander Tankou - December 2019This guidance aims to help countries incorporate more ambitious, relevant, and tangible power solutions into enhanced NDCs for communication to the UNFCCC by 2020.
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by Ichiro Sato, Paige Langer and Fred Stolle - December 2019This guide supplements, as a sector module, the overarching guide, Enhancing NDCs: A Guide to Strengthening National Climate Plans by 2020 (Fransen et al. 2019), and will assist countries in enhancing their NDCs with clearer and more tangible forest and land-use sector contents.
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by Jessica Arriens - November 07, 2019Rainy season arrives at the same time in the lowlands of central Uganda and the country’s eastern highlands. Both regions grow coffee. Yet the climate risks Uganda's coffee farmers face vary considerably depending on where they're located.
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November 01, 2019
Join experts from WRI and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) at this briefing on the Global Commission on Adaptation’s Flagship Report and Year of Action for climate adaptation.
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by Crystal Romeo Upperman, Gillian Marcelle and Carole Excell - October 21, 2019Disasters like Hurricane Dorian are especially devastating on small island nations like those of the Caribbean. To adapt to climate change, the region (with international help) should invest in resilience as well as response.
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by Gaia Larsen, Giulia Christianson and Niranjali Amerasinghe - October 15, 2019The demand for green bonds is high, but only 3-5% of the proceeds go to climate resilience. That's in part because there hasn't been a standard for how to evaluate whether a project will increase resilience to climate change — until now.
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Financial Implications of Parched Power: Insights from an Analysis of Indian Thermal Power Companies
This paper provides quantitative evidence to help investors better understand and measure the financial impacts from water shortages in the thermal power sector, drawing on data and analysis of Indian companies. It introduces a new methodology to estimate the water shortage-induced impacts to earnings on five Indian thermal power companies from FY 2014-2017. It also uses outputs from climate models to analyze potential future changes to water availability in India, which could increase the risk of water shortages.
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RELEASE: New Research Finds Climate Adaptation Is an Opportunity for Transformative Change in Cities
Urban adaptation should incorporate climate risks into planning, work with vulnerable communities and focus on nature-based solution.
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by Jillian Du - October 09, 2019Monsoons have been stronger in northern India in recent years. Residents of one city are embracing a low-tech solution to control flooding: conserving farmland.
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At the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and several governments announced financial commitments of $790 million and assistance to enhance resilience of over 300 million small-scale food producers in the face of mounting climate impacts.
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by Taryn Fransen, Ichiro Sato, Kelly Levin, David Waskow, David Rich, Sadya Ndoko and Julie Teng - September 2019This guidance helps countries structure how to enhance their national climate plans under the Paris Agreement.