https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyjtrfYpVCs ND-GAIN's 2013 Annual Meeting was the premier gathering of domestic and international thought leaders on adaptation. The event was held at the non-partisan Wilson Center, and was attended by…

It will take the world’s poorest countries more than one century just to reach the level of climate change readiness that the richest countries already enjoy, according to data released today (Dec. 12) by the 2013 University of Notre Dame...

Today the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) announced that PepsiCo and Monsanto are the 2013 winners of its ND-GAIN Corporate Adaptation Award, an annual award for contributions to awareness, science or action in creating resilience to climate...

This essay was published in the NDIAS Quarterly, Fall 2013 [Scientific] thinking, born out of engineering and mathematics, implemented in computers, drawn from a mechanistic mind-set and a quest for prediction…

This blog was originally written for Leopold Leadership 3.0. A bit more than a year ago, my lab and I spent a day trying to figure out …

This year's winners are Monsanto and PepsiCo! Monsanto | Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) The Water Efficient Maize for Africa project (WEMA) is a public/private…

The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) opened the call for applications to its Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index Corporate Adaptation Award.

The Global Adaptation Index (GAIN)—the world’s leading Index showing which countries are best prepared to deal with the droughts, super-storms and other natural disasters that climate change can cause—is moving to the University of Notre Dame. GAIN, which ranks countries annually based on...

The ND-GAIN Index was recently featured in the Woodrow Wilson Center’s New Security Beat blog.

Joyce E. Coffee, who has extensive experience working on climate change and sustainability — particularly in the government and corporate sectors — has been named managing director of the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN).

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Several Leopold Leadership Fellows and I have a series of guests posts at the …

With funding from The John Templeton Foundation, ND-GAIN and the Tecnológico de Monterrey hosted this forum to highlight the ongoing and future work they are conducting on this issue, which has included a national survey of SMEs and online guidelines...

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Notre Dame will be the new home of The GAIN Index, now becoming ND-GAIN. The formal announcement was made April 18 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN) and Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI)...

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The University of Notre Dame will become the new home base of the Global Adaptation Index, a tool showing which countries are best prepared to deal with droughts, storms and other natural disasters that may be caused by climate change.

A group of Leopold Leadership Fellows are presenting at the AAAS meeting in Boston, February, 2013. We are looking to engage conversation on our general session topic and specifically on time-effective methods of engaging in environmental outreach…

ND-GAIN is featured in the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Risk Report.

A while back I posted about writing a mission or vision statement for one's research lab and the idea was picked up by Nature magazine. I argued that universities and business do it, even centers and…