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.…