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This working paper examines the policy considerations needed for the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) approach to reach it full potential in the region, including clear evidence-based guidelines to help policy makers develop disaster management plans.
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This report and its brief present the learnings from a workshop organized in the context of a project aiming to link social protection programs (SPP) and anticipatory action (AA) in Nepal.
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Conditions that usually accompany the kind of intense hot and cold weather that strains power grids may also provide greater opportunities to capture solar and wind energy.
Washington State University
Wildfire in Stanislaus National Forest, California, 2013
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux and Université de Bourgogne have analysed trends to come in current and developing winegrowing regions around the world to adapt wine production to climate change.
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasising the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists who have analysed that summer’s events.
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
NOAA’s National Weather Service launched a new website today: The National Water Prediction Service. This new hub for water data, products and services combines local and regional forecasts with water data.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
In recent flood events, dams, it could be said, ‘weaponized’ the floods and turned high river flow into a catastrophic disaster. And as a consequence, climate change has just made a lot more assets uninsurable.
Moody's Investors Service

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