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This publication presents the municipal heat planning study in Connecticut and introduces a practical toolkit developed in response to the gaps identified through the research.
To reduce the amount of disease-bearing insects, researchers in a new study released transgenic mosquitoes in Brazil to breed with wild populations and limit reproduction.
Growing evidence now suggests the entire energy supply chain, particularly power generation transmission and distribution, is vulnerable to climate change and disaster events. But practitioners can mitigate losses by hardening power systems, anticipating climate risks to plans and investments, and relying on state-of-the-art technologies for adaptation.
A slowing Gulf Stream, shifts in a North Atlantic weather pattern, and El Niño climate cycles could explain why some parts of the world are experiencing sea level increases far beyond the global average. An example is the U.S. East Coast, which has been experiencing “sunny day flooding” that had not been expected for decades under conventional sea level rise projections.
Cloud to Street, a technology startup, combines satellite imagery and cellphone data with social vulnerability modelling and machine learning hydrology (mapping the floodplain) to identify the most vulnerable communities. The co-founders are working on constructing the largest inventory of past major flooding in the world over the last 20 years in a single record.
Building community resilience through active identification and prevention of risks, capacity- building of civil society and local administration, and improved preparedness, relying on available low-cost techniques, are an imperative, not luxury, for these Himalayan countries. Governments, NGOs and donor communities must work together in the Hindu Kush Himalayas for lasting change...
' It is difficult to make hard decisions in the middle of disaster recovery. We need to develop these plans in advance, at a national level, and have them ready to implement after the next big storm,' writes Rob Young in his opinion piece on Yale University's Environment 360 website...
'As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms,' according to Professor Rob Young of Yale University...
Voluntary Commitments
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.