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New Data Set Aims to Improve Climate Adaptation
2016-04-18 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: People in developed countries rarely think of weather in life-or-death terms. But millions in the developing world have no choice but to do so. The global rich have stable governments, savings accounts, insurance and more to fall back on when disaster strikes. People in poorer countries don't, so they're often faced with tough decisions in times of drought: Sell the only ox for food and plow by hand next year? Take the kids out of school and put them to work chopping firewood for extra cash? Abandon...
India's budget for climate adaptation inadequate: Activists
2016-04-11 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Indian government has come under fire after allocating 3.5 billion rupees ($52.8 million) for climate change adaptation over the next two financial years, a sum which environmental experts say is woefully inadequate given the size of the country and the challenges it faces. In a written response to a question by a member of Parliament during a session to discuss the budget, Prakash Javadekar, environment minister, said that the sum allocated to the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC)...
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Adaptation to increasing flood risk in Europe should aim to reduce impact
2016-03-18 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A JRC-led research published in Climatic Change investigated the benefits of four adaptation measures to reduce the increasing flood risk in Europe under state-of-the-art global warming projections under a high-end climate scenario. Adaptation measures include the rise of flood protections, reduction of the peak flows through water retention, reduction of vulnerability and relocation to safer areas. Under the projected increase in frequency and magnitude of river floods in the current century, traditional...
Climate change adaptation post-Paris: next steps for the Green Climate Fund
2016-03-10 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Green Climate Fund is expected to become a key channel for funding adaptation efforts in vulnerable developing countries. The GCF pursues valuable adaptation objectives, namely to increase resilience and enhance the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people, communities and regions in the world, including in areas such as health, well-being and food and water security. It can make a real difference to the lives of millions of people. Building on some key adaptation features of the GCF, it must...
Leonardo DiCaprio producing climate change-themed young adult novel adaptation
2016-02-02 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Film News: Leonardo DiCaprio is marrying his love of the environment and movies by producing an adaptation of climate change-themed novel The Sandcastle Empire. The Revenant star and his Appian Way partner, Jennifer Davisson, will produce the project, which is based on author Kayla Olson's book of the same name. The novel is set in the year 2049 when the Earth is "at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation", and a "radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the...
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