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Displaying 105 of about 1105 resultsWell, it’s official: 2021 was one of the planet’s seven hottest years since records began, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) declared this week. The year was about 1.11℃ above pre-industrial levels – the seventh year in a row that the average global temperature rise edged over 1℃.
The WMO report echoes two separate official US analy…
This learning brief summarizes an original research study which was prepared for the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) by Environmental Governance Consulting, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, during the 2018–2020 period. Saint Lucia has made a commendable effort over the past two decades to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change on…
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Climate.Culture.Peace is a knowledge-building initiative, aimed at exploring the interconnections between culture, climate change, peace and disaster resilience. It includes a 5-day virtual conference and a knowledge portal with a focus on heritage places and institutions, which are threatened by climate-related disasters…
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We are organizing two meetings with IPCC authors and stakeholders on Tuesday, January 18th at 9am and 4pm CET to present the progress of the fact sheets and discuss various options.
Parallel sessions discussions will be held to focus on the fact sheets about specific sectors (Cities-Buildings-Transport, Energy, Health, T…
Most scientists researching California's extreme weather events have focused their investigations on the last decade and predict a more tumultuous future. But new UArizona research finds that an increasing trend in extreme weather began half a century ago.
It may seem as if California is always either flooding or on fire. This climatic whiplash is not…
This flyer provides information about the most important parts of this IDRM approach. It elaborates on the different phases of IDRM, the target groups and actors involved as well as on common types of insurance schemes. Such an Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM) approach was piloted within the project "Developing Risk Management Approaches for C…
This edited volume aims to address the gap between interrelated policy agendas that have the potential to identify and reduce systematic risks, promote sustainable development and significantly affect the future of humanity. The theoretical perspectives emerging from empirical evidence of this integration call for greater attention in the internati…
This report is the result of a collaboration between sixteen of the world’s leading banks with UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and management consultancies Oliver Wyman and Mercer to pilot scenario-based assessments of transition-related risks and opportunities as envisioned by the Recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task For…
The ongoing policy discussions about climate change resilience and the role of prevention and insurance, including the recent blog by Matthew Kahn and Somik Lall, reminded me of the 1985 science fiction movie “Back to the Future”, where a teenager is accidentally sent three decades back in a time-traveling automobile built…
Climate change is threatening the Winter Olympics and the future of snow sports by making conditions much more dangerous to athletes and participants, finds a new report.
Slippery Slopes: How Climate Change is threatening the 2022 Winter Olympics, hears from leading skiers, snowboarders and bobsledders on their fears for the future of snow sports as ou…
This report is about the degree to which companies had disclosed taking climate risks into account within financial statements, and auditors in their audits thereof. The report includes whether the assumptions and estimates that companies used were transparent and consistent with other aspects of reports. So far, there has been a growth in net…
Registration is now open for the COP27 Resilience Hub Virtual Platform.
Following the success of the inaugural Resilience Hub at COP26 in Glasgow, the Resilience Hub is back for COP27.
With a more diverse set of Managing Partners and Regional Resilience Hubs taking place around the world in the run up to the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik…
This paper investigates the long-term (2070–2099) potential impacts of climate change on global food trade networks of three key crops: wheat, rice and maize. The researchers propose a simple network model to project how climate change impacts on crop yields may be translated into changes in trade. Countries' reliance on global food trade networks…
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) commissioned Frontier Economics and Paul Watkiss Associates to produce an assessment of barriers that are preventing investment in climate change adaptation in the United Kingdom. This report presents the findings of a rapid literature review, a set of case studies to provide context specific assessments of barriers an…
This plan is the Community Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Plan for the community of Hagley Gap. It is one of several CDRM and CCA Plans that support the formation of the Zonal Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Committees/Plans for St. Thomas. The Hagley Gap Disaster Risk Management and Climate Cha…