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Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems are about ensuring we implement climate change adaptation more effectively and more efficiently.

Europe is in the midst of a heat wave, and while Olympic athletes in Paris for the 2024 Summer Games might be spared the worst of it, the weather will still be hot.

A major international project supported by WMO is using the Paris 2024 Olympics as an opportunity to advance weather forecasting research, especially of localized, high impact hazards in urban areas.

You're traveling in France, in Paris, to the Olympic Games sites, on vacation or for work. Would you know how to react in the event of a catastrophic event or danger caused by natural phenomena or human action?

Leading heat physiologists Professor Mike Tipton and Dr Jo Corbett warn that intense heat at the Paris Olympics could lead to competitors collapsing and in worst-case scenarios dying during the Games.

The aim of this report is to investigate the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, based on empirical analyses.

Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six months when the world's athletes arrive for the Olympics, another pounding heat wave would spell trouble for organizers.

This article examines recognition of differences in the capacity of people to deal with floods in Flood Risk Management (FRM) in England (United Kingdom), Finland, Flanders (Belgium) and France. Flood risks worldwide are increasing due to climate change.