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...

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...

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 change as fifth among...

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...

This infographic in Fast Company got me thinking:  Is China the answer to African resilience? Anyone worried about climate change would be agog at what this map says:  That Africa (including, it looks like, even the African Sahel, based on the arrow) will be...

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....

The Washington Post   What is the best place to weather climate change? Research by the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, or ND-GAIN, suggests it is Scandinavia. In a pinch, though, any developed country will do. As these maps by...

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 2014 Index,…

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 are some of the most most obvious ingredients in...