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On the eve of COP30 in Brazil, Notre Dame convenes faculty in São Paulo

Since its founding, the University of Notre Dame has sought to address the world’s most pressing challenges through scholarship, partnership, and service. Responding to the growing urgency of environmental change requires precisely this kind of collaboration, bringing together universities, researchers,...

New data analysis tool from researchers at Notre Dame sheds light on city-level water-related climate risks

As the reality of a changing global climate manifests in severe flooding and intensifying droughts, the risk and preparedness for these extreme weather events is distributed unevenly worldwide.

ND-GAIN Adaptation Briefs: Showcasing Global Progress and Strategies for Climate Resilience

The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) is proud to release a new Adaptation Brief in its ongoing series of highlighting what works in climate interventions across the globe. The latest ND-GAIN Adaptation Brief highlights the Supporting…

ND-GAIN releases latest Country Index update

The lastest update to the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative's (ND-GAIN) Country Index is now live. The ND-GAIN team will release a second Country Index update in late Fall, which includes the integration…

New global tool measures climate resilience at the city level

Jakarta, Indonesia, faces a paradox. Its economy and population are soaring, but the city itself is sinking. Excessive groundwater use is causing land subsidence of up to ten inches annually. Experts warn that by 2050, the subsidence, combined with rising sea...

Arun Agrawal to lead Notre Dame’s new University-wide sustainability initiative

Arun Agrawal, a renowned scholar of environmental politics and sustainable development, will join the University of Notre Dame on Jan. 1, 2025, as the inaugural director of the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative, a key priority in the University’s strategic...

Environmental governance mitigates human displacement caused by weather-related disasters, study shows

Weather-related disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and droughts displace about three times as many people as conflicts and violence do worldwide. From 2008 to 2018, around 263 million people were forced by extreme weather events to move within their...

Downwind states face disproportionate burden of air pollution

A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing interstate air pollution further complicates efforts to reduce emissions and adds to an already disproportionate burden on “downwind” states, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame. …

New ND-GAIN data shines spotlight on small islands’ climate vulnerability and adaptation efforts

Palau, which lies in the western Pacific, is one of several island countries added this year to ND-GAIN “We will not sign our death certificate,”…

Measuring Climate Resilience at the City Level

Building on its pioneering Country Index, which ranks climate vulnerability and readiness across more than 180 countries, the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) will soon begin tracking the progress of such efforts in cities around the world....

Former ND-GAIN Research Associate brings food systems into focus at UN climate summit

Later this month, more than 70,000 participants will attend the UN climate summit in Dubai. In the months leading up to the summit, known as COP28, Mohammed Farrae, a Master of Global Affairs graduate (2022) from the Keough School…

Keough School expert to play key role in COP28 climate talks on food systems

For the first time in history, agriculture will be part of the 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) discussions. Paul Winters, associate dean for academic affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre...

Bridging knowledge with action: Notre Dame climate experts discuss the future of our planet

At the University of Notre Dame, climate change researchers and their students are bringing real-world solutions to communities worldwide, providing perspective on policy issues and encouraging shifts in human behavior to face that uncertainty with resilience.

Climate-prepared countries are losing ground, latest ND-GAIN index shows

Updated annually, ND-GAIN’s Country Index quantifies the climate vulnerability and readiness of more than 180 countries by aggregating 45 core indicators over 20 years.

Research collaboration brings an international perspective to local floods

This summer, a team of undergraduate researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Dublin City University (DCU) joined together to analyze a subwatershed in the St. Joseph River Basin to better understand barriers and opportunities…

Dublin Global Gateway facilitates new ND and DCU research collaboration

After the success of the Ireland Climate Inventory project, a virtual summer 2021 initiative, the Dublin Global Gateway (DGG) is delighted to announce the launch of a new research collaboration between the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI) and the...

Notre Dame and Dublin City University launch student research exchange focused on water policy and climate adaptation

This summer, eight undergraduate students from …

With NSF grant, interdisciplinary Notre Dame team aims to develop national model for community-university partnerships that can help revive Rust Belt cities

An interdisciplinary team of Notre Dame faculty is leading an effort with institutions in Ohio and Kentucky to replicate an experiential learning model for attracting and retaining diverse STEM workforces in Rust Belt cities through university-community partnerships that strengthen quality...

ND-GAIN and Dublin Global Gateway partner to build climate change inventory of Ireland

Even the most prepared countries need to focus more on climate change, according to the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index. The annual study—which measures how 181 countries compare…

New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate risks to human health

In a first-of-its-kind study that combines assessments of the risks of toxic emissions (e.g., fine particulate matter), nontoxic emissions (e.g., greenhouse gases) and people’s vulnerability to them, University of Notre Dame postdoctoral research associate Drew (Richard) Marcantonio, doctoral student Sean...

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