Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative

In this era of “big data,” policymakers too often focus on overly broad statistics, saysAmy Luers of the Skoll Global Threats Fund in this week’s podcast.

The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) and the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) will work with faculty and staff from the Universidade Católica de Moçambique (UCM) to assess the impacts of early-warning systems for climate-related disasters in the country...

Contact: Joyce Coffee, ND-GAIN, 312-894-9028, Joyce.Coffee.3@nd.edu  Climate indicators and country risk ratings developed by the University of Notre DameGlobal Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) will be instrumental in a new partnership announced Tuesday (Feb. 25) whose goal is to develop the Climate Change Risk Management...

Climate indicators and country risk ratings developed by the University of Notre DameGlobal Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) will be instrumental in a new partnership announced Tuesday (Feb. 25) whose goal is to develop the Climate Change Risk Management (CCRM) application.

ND-GAIN’s 2013 Annual Meeting was the premier gathering of domestic and international thought leaders on adaptation. The event, held at the non-partisan Wilson Center, was attended by more than 100 leaders from major multinational corporations, NGOs and government agencies who...

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 leaders from major multinational corporations, NGOs and government agencies who are developing...

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 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 partnership, led by the Kenyan-based African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and funded by the Bill and...

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).

Several Leopold Leadership Fellows and I have a series of guests posts at the Soapboxscience blog at Nature this week. A series of three posts address #reachingoutsci…

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...

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)...

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.

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

This year's winners are Ushahidi, PING, MEDA, and Engineers Without Borders - Austin Chapter! Ushahidi | Crowd Source Technology Platform Ushahidi is a nonprofit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Ushahidi...

The 2012 Annual Meeting and Scientific Convening of the Global Adaptation Institute (fromerly GAIN) was a two-day meeting designed to provide growth and networking opportunities to enrich GAIN's mission to increase the world's understanding of the urgent need for adaptation...

During the Annual Meeting & Scientific Convening of the Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN), Dr. Dieck-Assad, a member of the GAIN Council of Scientists, highlighted the need to more frequently showcase positive adaptation projects on the ground.