Contact: Alex Gumm, 219-746-5953, agumm@nd.edu  The University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) has announced it will assess the climate vulnerability and readiness of every U.S. city with…

As climate changes in the decades ahead, nations all over the world will invest billions to make themselves more resilient to rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves.   A new study led by researchers…

COP22 was the conference of action. It’s time to implement the Paris Agreement. Amidst the first week of this international meeting of climate action leaders, the United States elected Donald Trump as president. The grim mood that consequently settled…

This post originally appeared the South Bend Tribune Opinions The dramatic floods in West Virginia and the recent wildfires…

The Paris Climate Agreement put climate adaptation squarely on the climate agenda when it established a global goal to “enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change.”…

One of the biggest threats to a thriving world today is that the world’s poorest people face disproportionate risk from climate change. …

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have developed a global league table that identifies the nations that are most vulnerable to climate change. Poor nations are considered to the ones that are most vulnerable to climate change and least...

That's one of the biggest questions lingering after the Paris climate agreement succeeded in mobilizing 195 nations around reducing their emissions to prevent a warmer world. According to a global index managed by the University of Notre Dame in Indiana,...

Accepting that climate change is happening, and not merely relying on financial support from wealthy nations, is the key for poor countries to survive the effects of climate change, experts say. Embracing that a different type of climate may alter...

By analyzing 25 years of data, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana developed a Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) that ranks 192 nations annually on their readiness to face a warming world. The index takes into account risks increased by climate change, including food insecurity,...

Climate change will impact almost every region of the planet in the coming times and the impact can be seen in terms of unpredictable and inclement weather, which would impact crop yields. It is important for governments to be ready...

Now that the Paris climate agreement has successfully pushed 195 nations to reduce their emissions in the struggle to prevent global warming, a new questions arises: How will the countries most vulnerable to climate change - usually the poorest ones...

Over 300 urban influencers from 30 countries nestled into Barcelona’s Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau for the City of Barcelona and UN-HABITAT’s Barcelona Resilience Week. Together we broached all things urban; panels and presenters discussed and disseminated issues from the...

The good news is that identifying those most in need – step one – is now a good deal easier thanks to a global league table developed by the University of Notre Dame. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN)...

After spending three days in sunny San Diego at CCBJ’s Environmental Industry Summit, I suspect most attendees left with a strong commitment to their work and a sense of inspiration for the evolving environmental field. However, many also carried apprehension...

Contact: Joyce Coffee, Managing Director, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, 312-894-9028, jcoffee@nd.edu The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) won a Business…

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Professor Patrick Regan has been appointed the Associate Director of the University of Notre Dame Environmental …