Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

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The study is aimed at examining the intersection between climate change and education, with specific focus on how extreme weather events negatively impacts education outcomes.
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This report investigates the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation strategies for Mazovia region and the municipality of Stare Babice, in Poland.
Rain clouds at the coastline
While most attention surrounding El Niño focuses on drier conditions and water shortages, cascading effects impact food and energy production, air quality, human health and more.
World Resources Institute
For this new study, the researchers focused on the history of atmospheric rivers dumping rain on California. Leonard Lake in northern California was chosen due to its relatively stable history going back thousands of years and its geographical features.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
Hurricane Florence seen from Space in September 2018
New work finds hurricanes are intensifying faster close to the coast—a trend that’s likely to ramp up in a warmer world
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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This brief examines solutions on the Adaptation at Altitude Solutions Portal that have been implemented either across borders or in multiple countries with shared borders.
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As developing countries transition from planning to implementation in their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, a critical step is securing financing to implement priority adaptation actions articulated through the NAP process.
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
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In this study, authors use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes.

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