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Displaying 120 of about 236 resultsPort of Spain – A new case study from the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) highlights key findings and priorities for institutional strengthening to improve readiness to adapt to climate change in the fisheries sectors of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories, Anguilla and Montserrat.
The fisheries sectors in Anguilla and Montserra…
Data from 2017 Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and California natural disasters highlights key collaboration gaps and better ways to save money, time and lives in future disasters
After 2017’s record year of billion-dollar disaster events and additional hurricanes and wildfires during 2018, a new University of Texas at Arlington study found that inconsiste…
By Hartwig Schafer
For low-lying island states, the impacts of global warming and climate change can be a matter of survival. The irony is that while these states have not contributed much to greenhouse emissions, as they produce very little, they may face some of the worst consequences.
The Maldives is no stranger to the risks from climate chan…
Over the past decade, Haiti has been left devastated by a series of extreme weather events and natural disasters. In 2008, the country was hit by four hurricanes, killing 800 people and destroying agricultural land. Then, less than two years later, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the country’s capital. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and 1.5…
By Will Bugler
The threat that climate change poses to the tourism industry threatens to collapse the economies of several island nations around the world. Those countries that are most dependent on tourist dollars to sustain their economies also have tourist industries that are highly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. In 2017 there were 20…
By Matthew Mohan
SINGAPORE: As part of efforts to boost flood resilience, Singapore will spend an additional S$400 million to upgrade and maintain drains over the next two years, announced Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli on Wednesday (Jul 17).
Speaking at the 2019 Partners for the Environment forum, Mr Masagos said…
By Robert Huish, Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University; and Sharon McLennan, Lecturer in International Development, Massey University
Kiribati.
You may not know where it is.
Pronouncing it is tricky (Ker-a-bas). It’s a small republic of 114,000 people spread out over 32 atolls in the middle of the Pacific…
By Liam Moore
Studies and predictions of how flows of migration and displacement are influenced by climate change are gaining salience in popular discourse. However, while increased attention on this important topic is welcome, the perspectives and narratives popularised about climate-related (im)mobility are often unhelpful and misguided. Wh…
Samoa faced huge flooding in 2018 after torrential rain fell overnight, leaving a trail of destruction, 330 people evacuated and $10 million of infrastructural damage.
The lessons learned from this experience made Samoa a suitable location to host the fifth Commonwealth Global Biennial Conference on Small States under the theme ‘Building Resilience Thr…
Secretary-General António Guterres (left) with Hubert Alexander Minnis (right), Prime Minister of the Bahamas talk to the press in front of the National Emergency Management Agency in the Bahamas. Credit: UN/Mark Garten
By Christophe Illemassene
Nassau, the Bahamas: By calling the impact of Hurricane Dorian, “a generational disaster,” the Prime Mini…
Fiji, October 17, 2019– IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Fijian Government have signed an agreement that paves the way to help the country’s disadvantaged families and farmers gain access to an insurance payout in the event of a severe cyclone.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at a meeting on the sidelines of the Annual Me…
Nadi, Fiji, 30 September 2019 – The first training of the Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans and Procedures Programme (TEMPP 1), co-sponsored by the Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific (BSRP) Project of the Pacific Community (SPC) and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO), took place on 30 September - 4 October 2019 in N…
By Moushumi Chaudhury and Namrata Chand
The sea around Lautoka City, Fiji's second-largest urban area, is rising 6 millimeters per year. The people of Taiperia Village, an informal settlement on the city's outskirts, are bracing themselves against more frequent flooding. Living on the edge of land and sea is increasingly perilous, as ma…
By Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography, and Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs
Antarctica is further from civilisation than any other place on Earth. The Greenland ice sheet is closer to home but around one tenth the size of its southern sibling. Together, these two ice masses hold enough frozen water t…
3D visualization of Ritter Island and the surrounding seafloor with traces of the landslide of 1888. Graphic: Jens Karstens/GEOMAR
Ritter Island gives new insights into the dynamics of volcanic landslides
Kiel — The flanks of many island volcanoes such as Mount Etna or Mount Kilauea slide very slowly towards the sea. Whether these landslides are…