Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

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21st January 2019
Partnership with parliamentarians enriches Pakistan’s climate and development debate A major research project has tailored climate change information for the use of parliamentarians in Pakistan – enabling them to apply new knowledge to some of the country’s pressing social and environmental challenges. Samavia Batool and Abid Suleri report.
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18th January 2019
How climate researchers and businesses began speaking the same language: A case from Senegal Researchers from the action-research project, PRISE, describe how new knowledge partnerships are making development more environmentally and economically sustainable in Senegal.
Feature
4th January 2019
Climate action in Chile: Towards multi-level governance With ecosystems that range from the world’s driest desert to the ice fields of Patagonia, Chile is truly a climate laboratory: one that faces a multitude of threats across its 16 diverse regions. The country has high ambitions for climate action - multi-level governance systems will help Chile achieve its goals.
Feature
19th December 2018
Countries must follow technical achievement of COP24 by stepping up ambition Delegates to COP24 in Katowice, Poland closed the conference on Saturday with a considerable achievement: they signed off an almost-complete ‘rulebook’ – or set of guidelines – for implementing the Paris Agreement.
News
19th December 2018
Game-changing report finds that climate action will avert millions of air pollution deaths The COP Special Report on Health and Climate Change has turned the economics of climate change on its head and exposed an environmental outrage on a planetary scale. Mairi Dupar reports from Katowice, Poland.
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17th December 2018
East African climate services connect with local communities Met departments and others are strengthening climate services in East Africa and it is having a positive impact on development, reports Bill Leathes of the Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological service.
Feature
11th December 2018
Modelling Mozambique's low-emissions future Almeida Sitoe, Sadie Cox and Tim Woods report on a major low-emissions project that is modelling future development pathways for Mozambique and providing scenarios for the next version of its NDC.
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6th December 2018
Chile's Framework Law on Climate Change: In conversation with Carolina Urmeneta Maria Carolina Urmeneta Labarca heads the Office of Climate Change in Chile’s Ministry of Environment. Here, she shares her insights into Chile's integrated climate governance, from national to local levels.
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Completed
Future Climate for Africa

Future Climate for Africa is a 5-year project that aims to generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and ensure this science has an impact on human development across the continent, through making infrastructure, urban and rural plans and investments more climate resilient.

Completed
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Completed
Climate Resilient Cities in Latin America

This action research project aims to identify and promote innovative solutions for climate compatible development in small and medium sized cities that are experiencing rapid growth – in order to ultimately improve the lives of the people who are most affected by climate change.

Feature
19th November 2018
Global efforts to support climate adaptation must embrace long-term, socially-equitable solutions Georgina Kemp and Bruce Currie-Alder of IDRC reflect on forthcoming opportunities and challenges for the newly-launched Global Commission on Adaptation.
Feature
13th November 2018
Maharashtra’s story of developing its State Climate Change Policy Prutha Vaze provides an insider’s perspective on developing the Maharashtra State Climate Change Policy. Ms. Vaze, a Technical Expert for the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme, has been embedded with the state government for the last three years.