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Climate change tack shifts to adaptation
2013-06-16 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Efforts to curb global warming have quietly shifted as greenhouse gases inexorably rise. The conversation is no longer solely about how to save the planet by cutting carbon emissions, it is becoming more about how to save ourselves from the warming planet`s wild weather. It was Mayor Michael Bloomberg`s recent announcement of an ambitious plan to stave off New York City`s rising seas with flood gates, levees and more that brought this transition into full focus. After years of losing the fight...
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Corps Develops Strategies for Expected Climate Adaptation
2013-06-12 16:18:47| ENR.com: Headline News
Water utilities and agencies are slowly but surely moving toward developing strategies for dealing with realities of climate change.
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Women are 'key drivers' in climate change adaptation
2013-05-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Plans to protect ecosystems and help people adapt to climate change ? also known as ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) ? must involve vulnerable groups, including women and communities greatly hit by global warming if they are to succeed, according to scientists who met in Tanzania last month (21-23 March). Scientists and policymakers at the UN-ledinternational workshop on EBA in Dar-es-Salaam, also said that more needed to be done to monitor and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of such adaptation,...
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Climate Change Adaptation: A Race Against Time
2013-05-07 21:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Adaptation and mitigation. Identified by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and by scientists as the two major responses to address the problem, these were also the twin preoccupations of a climate change conference held recently in Dhaka. Some 200 environmentalists, scientists, policymakers, academics, government and non-government officials as well as international development partners converged on the capital city of Bangladesh to discuss ways community-based adaptation...
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On Climate Change Adaptation, Put Local Communities First
2013-05-06 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: How can we make climate change adaptation measures more effective? I recently traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to discuss ways to address that very question. I took part in the 7th annual Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA7), hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Bangladesh Center for International Studies. The conference provides a forum for organizations working on climate change adaptation to come together, learn from each other, and identify...
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