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AfricaAdapt

dietvorst wrote 6 days ago: AfricaAdapt is an independent bilingual network (French/English) focused on sharing knowledge on cl … more →

Tags: Africa, Policies & legislation, Water Resources Management, Web sites, AfricaAdapt, climate change, S0908-Net

EU member states report very differently on climate adaptation

Jac van Tuijn wrote 2 weeks ago: Cover of the PEER-report that compared the existing NAPA's from EU member states. Two new reports ex … more →

Tags: Europe

NGO's write benchmark Copenhagen climate treaty!

Project 90 by 2030 wrote 3 weeks ago: Dear friends, A proposal for a Copenhagen Agreement has been drafted by global NGO’s IndyAct, David … more →

Tags: climate change activism, Policy reviews, Sustainable living, climate change, Climate negotiations, Climate Treaty, Copenhagen, Environment, Global Warming

US climate experts conclude climate change already started

Jac van Tuijn wrote 3 weeks ago: Publication of the new USGRP-report by the US government can be seen as the full acknowledgement of … more →

Tags: climate change, Global Warming, USA, Weather & climate events

UN undersecretary-general Holmes pledges 3 billion dollar annually for risk reduction

Jac van Tuijn wrote 3 weeks ago: Disaster resistant school in Pakistan. At the start of the Global Platform for disaster risk reducti … more →

Tags: Risk Assessment, Flood Risk, World Wide, Natural Disasters

Climate change adaptation in the water sector

dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Ludwig, F., Kabat, P., Schaik, H. van and Valk, M. van der (2009). Climate change adaptation in the … more →

Tags: Water Resources Management, Water supply, South Africa, climate change, Yemen, Philippines, S0907-Publications, climate variability, Thailand

Climate change affecting the U.S.2 comments

Holly Doremus wrote 1 month ago: The US Global Change Research Program has just issued a report on Global Climate Change Impacts in t … more →

Tags: Federal Climate Policy, jane lubchenco, John Holdren, US Global Change Research Program

US Senator Landrieu praises Dutch approach to flood protection

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: By turning the coastal map of the Netherlands up side down, it shows much similarity with the map of … more →

Tags: USA, coastal zone management, Spatial Planning, River deltas, Netherlands

Tower shaped installation can produce water from desert air

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: Impression of a possible water tower for collecting air humidity. Research scientists at the German … more →

Tags: Africa, Drought, climate change, irrigation, water shortage, Water Resources

Europe's lowest area Dutch Zuidplaspolder to become an icon of climate adaptation

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: Typical Dutch scenery in the Zuidplaspolder, near Rotterdam. The lowest land point of the Netherland … more →

Tags: projects, Spatial Planning, Netherlands

Roads with high pavements can serve as emergency river beds for flash floods

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: High pavements can act as a storm drainage. Flash-flooding from rainfall should be combated by adapt … more →

Tags: flood prevention, storm water, flood protection

India gears up to use remote sensing in managing water resources

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: India's LandSat2 satellite for environmental earth observations. With a view to evolve fresh strateg … more →

Tags: Weather & climate events, India, Asia, flood prevention, River bassins, Water Resources

Climate change: the price tag for adaptation

dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Countries staring into a gloomy future of low food production, less water, higher storm surges, long … more →

Tags: Financing, Policies & legislation, Water supply, climate change, National Adaptation Programmes of Action, National Economic and Environmental Development Study, OECD, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

The price tag for adapting to climate change

dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Countries staring into a gloomy future of low food production, less water, higher storm surges, long … more →

Tags: Costs, UN, Water supply, Development aid, climate change, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Global adaptation science trickles down too slowly to local knowledge, says commission

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: Cover of the CCCD-report 'Closing the Gaps' on climate adaptation. Knowledge about adapting to clima … more →

Tags: World Wide

Climate Change Adaptation: Farmer Workshop 3

Project 90 by 2030 wrote 1 month ago: Dear Friends, The Swartland is traditionally known as the bread basket of the Western Cape. However, … more →

Tags: Food Security, Seminars & Talks, Sustainable living, Adaptation, climate change, Farmers, Goedverwacht, Workshops

Drowning the East Coast

Dan Farber wrote 1 month ago: NOAA Flood Model According to WaPo, Sea levels could rise faster along the U.S. East Coast than in a … more →

Tags: climate change, Adaptation, Science

Sec. Chu pushes cool roofs - and Fox pushes back4 comments

Cara Horowitz wrote 1 month ago: Perhaps not surprisingly, given his long tenure at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Energy Secretary … more →

Tags: climate change, Energy, Federal Climate Policy

Namibia, Guinea, El Salvador and Yemen will be hard hit by fiercer storm surges

Jac van Tuijn wrote 1 month ago: Nigeria will loose much land in the Niger delta. Fiercer storm surges brought on by climate change, … more →

Tags: coastal protection, Sea level rise - global, Wetlands, World Wide, Natural Disasters


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