Climate change

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

Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

A firefighter surveys wildfire damage in Queensland, Australia
Update
At least seven times over the last two millennia, our new research shows bushfire-prone southeast Australia has endured bushfire weather as bad or worse than what was experienced during the devastating Black Summer bushfires.
Conversation Media Group, the
Flooding in Pakistan
Research briefs
This April and May, large regions of central Asia were hit by a series of storms resulting in heavy downpours and flash flooding. The unusually high rains and subsequent floods in April and May followed a three-month dry period from December to March.
World Weather Attribution
Update
According to a 2019 survey, only 8% of Canadian health care facilities acknowledged climate change in their strategic plan or had identified climate risks in specific policies.
The Energy Mix
Stop disasters game
Research briefs
Nearly 2/3 of Americans play video games and video game developers are working on ways to incorporate climate content into games. However, little research has examined whether video game players have unique value as an audience for climate communication.
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
compilation of images of different types of weather like sun and rain separated by diagonal lines
Research briefs
A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels.
Massachussets Institute of Technology
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Documents and publications
This report is shedding light on the profound challenges Pakistan faces due to climate change. It is a national level survey conducted in 16 districts in four provinces across Pakistan.
Update
Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role of global warming in historic floods that have recently devastated countries from Brazil to Kenya.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
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Documents and publications
This policy brief underscores the importance of protecting human health in the EU climate change policies.

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