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Entrepreneurial Solutions for Adapting to Climate Change

ND students had the chance to enter the McCloskey Business Plan Competition with innovative approach to enhancing resilience and improving livelihoods in the face of climate change. Opportunity space: Food security Water access Coastal protection Ecosystem services Human habitats Infrastructure resiliency…...

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Entrepreneurial Adaptation Prize: SIREN

Q&A by Entrepreneurial Adaptation Prize Winner, Janaee Wallace Part of the McCloskey Business Plan Competition ($5,000 for the most innovative solution related to global adaptation) What is SIREN? SIREN stands for STEM Innovations through Research and Entrepreneurship Now. It is a...

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Interest in climate adaptation?

“Interest in climate adaptation?” I received an email with this subject line in the summer of 2013 from Managing Director Joyce Coffee. Though I considered myself literate in climate change issues at the time, I had to look up exactly...

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New index lists nations in dire need of help with regard to 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...

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How to help the countries most vulnerable to climate change

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,...

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Accepting Change: Key For Poor Countries To Survive Effects Of Climate Change

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...

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Keys to help poor countries adapt to climate change

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,...

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Poorer Countries vulnerable to Climate Change need Help to live in Warming World

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...

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How Do We Help The Countries Most Vulnerable To Climate Change?

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...

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Disease, Migration, and Climate Change: Unpacking Urban Resilience

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...

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