Adaptation

 

Australia's coal future is safe

Adeline Dontenville, 27th April 09

As predicted in Climatico’s last national climate policy report, Australia has just taken the lead, along with Britain, in the development of Carbon Capture and Storage. » Read more...

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Concerns over ‘Climate Refugees’ in South Asia

Aparna Sridhar, 22nd April 09

In addition to conflicts over resources, border disputes, and civil war, the South Asia region is also predicted to be one of the most vulnerable areas in climate change models. » Read more...

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Canada's Climate Canaries

Chris Fellingham, 6th April 09

While most states discuss Climate change either as an entirely future phenomena, or in terms of green house gas emissions. » Read more...

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27,000 hectares of the coastal area of Tokyo Bay to be flooded: Typhoon with sea level rise may bring unprecedented flood disaster

Takashi Sagara, 6th April 09

On April 2 2009, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) reported the results of examination of the storm surge flooding and the current defence capacity in the Tokyo Bay coastal area against flood tide at an expert panel on large-scale flood control measures of the central disaster management council. » Read more...

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The G20 Summit - A Day in Review

G20 Summit Team, 3rd April 09

As expected, the global economy took center stage at the G20 Summit held yesterday in London. » Read more...

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G20 Live Blog

G20 Summit Team, 2nd April 09

The Climatico Team will be providing a live-blog service on the climate change aspects of the G20 Summit and surrounding events in London, United Kingdom. » Read more...

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EU Council: discussion ends in agreement to have more discussion

Dafydd Elis, 24th March 09

In line with expectations, EU leaders did not make any substantial progress on agreeing their Copenhagen negotiating position in their Council meeting last week. » Read more...

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Increasing number of Americans believe that global warming is exaggerated

Paige Andrews, 22nd March 09

According to a recent Gallup Poll, an increasing number of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated. » Read more...

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Public Health and Climate Change- an intersection India cannot afford to miss

Aparna Sridhar, 16th March 09

The public health dimension associated with climate changes is a critical interface that has yet to be fully addressed by the Government of India as they continue to push forward India's action plan on climate change. » Read more...

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Climatico Report on National Climate Policy published, finds significant gap in adaptation funding

Simon Billett, 8th March 09

On March 5 2009 Climatico released its first assessment report of national climate policy across twelve of the G20 countries. » Read more...

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NGOs keep the climate heat on EU leaders

Dafydd Elis, 7th March 09

Already a whole quarter has passed since the frenzy of negotiations that led up to the 20/20/20 Package agreement at the European Council meeting last December. » Read more...

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Adaptation and biodiversity concerns over deteriorating wetlands in India

Aparna Sridhar, 4th March 09

Recently, climate change adaptation concerns  in India have emphasized Himalayan areas and agriculture farmers. » Read more...

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EU stalls on adaptation financing

Ian Ross, 2nd March 09

Like most EU talks seem to be nowadays, those today on climate change were rather fractious, specifically the debates around adaptation financing.The current EU position for Copenhagen estimates that "net global incremental investment" for tackling climate change needs to be 175 billion euros by 2020, with 100 billion euros of that spent in developing countries. » Read more...

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Disaster management in a changing climate: EU gives some thought to adaptation

Dafydd Elis, 26th February 09

Usually, the EU’s policy on global warming tends to focus on mitigation: the 20/20/20 Climate and Energy Package is the obvious recent example. » Read more...

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Bangladesh fears adaptation financing shortfall

Ian Ross, 20th February 09

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New website monitoring climate funds

Ian Ross, 19th February 09

A few weeks ago, a new website monitoring climate funds was launched. » Read more...

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Bad news for water resources in South Asia and South America

Ian Ross, 17th February 09

This week saw a double whammy of bad news for water resources, as research in South Asia and South America gave dire warnings for the future if better water resource management (WRM) was not practised. » Read more...

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Davos Climate Roundup

Chris Wright, 2nd February 09

The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ended yesterday. » Read more...

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Recipients announced for Climate Investment Funds

Ian Ross, 2nd February 09

Last year, rich countries pledged some $6 billion for the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), to which the UK is a significant contributor. » Read more...

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Good news for “South-South” technology transfer?

Ian Ross, 1st February 09

It was announced last week that two universities, one in Brazil and one in China, are to partner on developing climate change technologies. » Read more...

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