The Insurance Industry: Adaptation Drivers
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Does wealth result in increased climate change preparedness?
With tools like the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index these kinds of questions can be answered. In attempting to answer this question wealth is measured in GDP per capita, overall GDP, and economic freedom. This yields three very interesting results: Firstly,…
The World’s Poor: Pope Francis Clarifies Their Disproportionate Risk to Climate Disruption
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Papal order shines light on climate change's impact on poor
Papal order shines light on climate change's impact on poor The papal encyclical set to be released Thursday…
Urban Adaptation Assessment Progress - June 2015
Prolonged drought, excessive heat, extreme weather… these are just a few of the hazards facing the global community in response to climate change. The ND-GAIN Country Indexprovides a means to view a country's vulnerability and their readiness to successfully implement...
Cities in Emerging Markets as Investment Meccas
I enjoyed great conversations last week with delegates and speakers from around the world at the first Chicago Forum on Global Cities, http://www.chicagoforum.org/ held in partnership with the Financial Times, and I hope it becomes an annual event. I drew…
Shifts in thinking in our unbalanced world
At the World Bank’s recent Financing Urban Resilience Workshop, I grasped three clear trends – indeed, shifts – occurring that are changing how adaptation leaders and others are managing an unbalanced world. (The workshop was led by Stephen Hammer, Lead...
ND-GAIN connects on climate adaptation at regional conferences
Members of the ND-GAIN team recently attended the European Climate Change Adaptation (ECCA) Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark as well as the North American National Adaptation Forum (NAF) in St.…
2015 Adaptation Ideas Prize Honorable Mention: Patrick Conry
In the Spring of 2015, the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, in cooperation with the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), hosted a cross-disciplinary ideas competition to gather the best thinking from Notre Dame students on the humanitarian challenge...
2015 Adaptation Ideas Prize Winner: Alicia Czarnecki
In the Spring of 2015, the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, in cooperation with the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), hosted a cross-disciplinary ideas competition to gather the best thinking from Notre Dame students on the humanitarian challenge...
ND-GAIN seeking applications for Corporate Adaptation Prize
Contact: Joyce Coffee, managing director, ND-GAIN, 574-807-9322, jcoffee@nd.edu ND-GAIN seeking applications for Corporate Adaptation Prize…
Thirty percent of corporations say climate change has impacted business materially
Contact: Joyce Coffee, managing director, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, 312-894-9028,jcoffee@nd.edu; Aleka Seville, director of advisory…
Burundi Analysis: Vulnerability, Readiness, and Recommendations
Highlights: Burundi's low ND-GAIN score reflects the nation's standing as one of the fifth poorest nations in the world. Because over 30% of Burundi's GDP depends on agriculture, and most of the population lives in rural areas, climate change could...
Preparing for New Realities: Planners Weigh in on Adapting to Climate Change
This post originally appeared on Triple Pundit: http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/05/preparing-new-realities-planners-wei... With climate uncertainty a new normal, planners from around…
Advancing Climate Resilient Development
USAID and its Climate Change Resilient Development project hosted a symposium in mid-March on Advancing Climate Resilient Development at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The project, led by Engility/IRQ, was tagged as a project…
Momentum for Change -Apply to Receive UN Award!
Organizations, cities, industries, governments and other key players that are taking the lead on addressing climate change adaptation in developing countries are encouraged to nominate their projects for a prestigious United Nations award. http://momentum.unfccc.int/…
Inaugural survey on the state of corporate adaptation underway
Contact: Joyce Coffee, managing director, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, 312-894-9028, jcoffee@nd.edu Inaugural…
UNISDR Launches RISE Initiative for Disaster Risk-Sensitive INVESTMENT
“Economic losses from disasters are out of control and can only be reduced in partnership with the private sector.” ̶ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon The United Nation’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or UNISDR, and PwC, the global...
Brazil drought – the Readiness Prophylactic
A demonstrator dressed as a bather protests against the rationing of water, outside the official residence of Sao Paulo’s Governor Geraldo Alckmin in Sao Paulo, on Jan. 26. The banner behind him reads, “Planet Water, Dry Lives.” Andre Penner/AP Last...
Lunar New Year Predictions from the Climate Leadership Conference
At a session this week (2-23) organized by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions at the Climate Leadership Conference, C2E Staff Scientist Joe Casola facilitated a discussion that asked the 60-plus corporate, nonprofit and government leaders attending to foresee 2035...
Building Global Health Resilience: Pursuits in Haiti and Bangladesh
Blog compiled with help from Sophia Chau, ND-GAIN Intern ND-GAIN focuses on building resilience to climate change as a critical component to better prepare humans and their environment for the next 100 years. Our mission lies in enhancing the world’s...
Emerging Global Risk: Failure to Adapt to Climate Change
While the world still smarts from the global recession, experts now identify climate change risks as bigger threats to our stability than economic ones. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk 2015 Report ranks failure to adapt to climate…
Increasing Water Security: Enlivening Communities in Africa and Asia
Blog compiled with help from Sophia Chau, ND-GAIN Intern More frequent and severe droughts triggered by climate change place significant stress on the regions of the globe already most arid. That’s why South Pole Carbon and HSBC India, in partnership...
China’s Role in Adaptation?
This infographic in Fast Company got me thinking: Is China the answer to African resilience? Anyone worried about climate change would be agog…
Cocoa Climate Crisis
Blog compiled with help from Sophia Chau, ND-GAIN Intern The International Cocoa organization has reported a 75,000-ton cocoa shortfall for this growing season and that figure is expected to reach the million-ton mark by 2020 unless swift action is taken....
Adaptation Potential: Africa’s Hope and Promise
Blog compiled with help from Sophia Chau, ND-GAIN Intern Hope for building communities resilient to climate change around the world emerges from the unlikeliest of places—Africa. Shortly after release of the ND-GAIN…
Which Countries Are Most Likely to Be Wiped Out By Future Disasters?
Gizmodo The results of a new report show which countries are the most vulnerable to risk—and the most ready to respond when disaster strikes. Bigger storms and more flooding…
The Best and Worst Places in the World to Live As Climate Changes
The Best and Worst Places in the World to Live As Climate Changes An index developed at the University of Notre Dame is giving us a glimpse of what countries are the best and…