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Has climate change adaptation lost its way?
2014-04-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Poor farmers regrow trees on their land in the Sahel for food, animal fodder, fuel and crop protection. Communities threatened by rising seas on the Carteret atoll in Papua New Guinea move permanently to Bougainville, the country's main island. The Netherlands devises coastal and river-flood protection schemes with a planning horizon of two centuries. Scientists collaborate to breed new varieties of drought-tolerant maize for Africa. What do these efforts have in common, beyond targeting the rising...
Climate change, migration or adaptation?
2014-02-08 02:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Severe drought has U.S. West fearing worst -- front page headline, New York Times, Sunday, Feb. 1 A young couple on the Canada Line asks for directions to the airport. They are flying home to San Francisco after a week skiing in Whistler, despite the fact there was not much snow. But there was more snow in Whistler, the man says, because theres none in Tahoe. California is in its third year of drought, its worst in 500 years. Within three months, 17 of its rural communities will run...
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WHO urges integration of mental health into climate change adaptation
2014-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
This Day: he health impacts of climate change, and the importance of integrating health into adaptation planning, have become increasingly prominent in recent years - though arguably not prominent enough. For example, there have been several declarations from health organisations including the Senator Iyiola Omisore which trained a number of ministers of health in climate policy and many adaptation initiatives now advocate prioritising the health sector. Often the health impacts which are highlighted are...
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The Nature Conservancy Releases Country-Level Temperature And Precipitation Data For Climate Resilience And Adaptation Planning
2013-11-25 03:56:04| pollutiononline News Articles
The Nature Conservancy has released a newcountry-level datasetfor its online Climate Wizard mapping tool that enables users to visualize future climate conditions using the most recent modeled data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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Cost of climate change adaptation could destabilise African countries, UN warns
2013-11-20 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: African countries are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and could struggle to feed and defend their people as temperatures rise, according to a major UN report. The cost of developing drought-resistant crops, providing early-warning systems for floods, droughts and fires, and building seawalls, dykes, and wave breaks will be vast, says the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) emissions gap report, launched this week at an African environment ministers' meeting in Warsaw. It will cost Africa...
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