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Climate swells tide of migrants

...floods or drought. A new report produced by the UK-based Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), and partly authored by journalists from the Climate News Network, concludes that much needs to be improved in...

20 Dec 2015

Climate swells tide of migrants

News / Carbon & Climate

El Nino has emerged and expected to strengthen: Australian weather bureau

...floods in South America. "This past week the central tropical Pacific is 1.6 degree Celsius above normal, and slowly warming still - and forecast by models to continue warming," Andrew Watkins, superv...

5 Aug 2015

El Nino has emerged and expected to strengthen: Australian weather bureau

News / Carbon & Climate

Cli-fi is all the rage

...floods and battles with criminals. Ultimately civilisation – and the environment – is rebuilt. “There’s a new term, cli-fi, that’s being used to describe books in which an altered climate is part of t...

28 Dec 2015

Cli-fi is all the rage

News / Energy

Carbon levy mooted for big fossil fuel firms

...flooding, sea level rise, land and forest degradation, desertification. Pressure is growing to work out if and how these big fossil fuel producers can be held financially responsible for the damage t...

11 Dec 2015

Carbon levy mooted for big fossil fuel firms

Press Releases / Designing City Resilience

Engineering diversity in infrastructure design key to city resilience

...flood protection and alleviation schemes prevent widespread damage from extreme weather; energy supply utilities and data systems are built continue to operate when a part of the network is knocked ou...

29 May 2015

Engineering diversity in infrastructure design key to city resilience

News / Policy & Finance

Don't view lightly climate change, global warming, warns Najib

...floods in decades with loss of lives and destruction of property. "As an example, The Kelantan Drainage and Irrigation Department recorded rainfall of 1,295 millimetres from Dec 21 to 23, 2014, which ...

27 Feb 2015

Don't view lightly climate change, global warming, warns Najib

News / Water

Local authorities, experts disagree on new urban area on Dong Nai River

...flood drainage”. The document showed that local authorities in early 2008 told the provincial agriculture department to hire the Southern Water Resources Science Institute to conduct a survey on possi...

1 Apr 2015

Local authorities, experts disagree on new urban area on Dong Nai River

News / Policy & Finance

Ban delivers favourable report card on early-stage talks at Paris climate summit

...floods, disastrous droughts and violent cyclones and storms, and rising seas inundate low-lying island States and shorelines where many major cities are located. “In the global economy, the transition...

4 Dec 2015

Ban delivers favourable report card on early-stage talks at Paris climate summit

Opinion / Water

Managing the politics of water

...floods and droughts, developing an integrated strategy to combat climate change, ensuring the quality of water courses, and holding regular summits to negotiate tradeoffs between water and other publi...

21 Mar 2016

Managing the politics of water

News / Energy

Nepal’s hydropower output falling due to climate change, developers claim

...floods and highly-destructive storms – could become much more common. Developers demand compensation “Insurers don’t provide full compensation, so for developers like us this has become a problem,” s...

22 Jul 2015

Nepal’s hydropower output falling due to climate change, developers claim

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change offers rare respite for African farmers

...floods and rising sea levels. “ Amounts of rainfall have recovered substantially, and it was a surprise that the increase in greenhouse gases appears to have been the dominant factor. Professor Rowan...

19 Jun 2015

Climate change offers rare respite for African farmers

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Greenpeace urges Binay to support climate resilience in Typhoon Lando

...flooding on Luzon soils. “Binay and the DA’s approach to the typhoon response is a good opening offer, but falls short of providing a long-term solution. Our farmers are facing their bigg...

27 Oct 2015

Greenpeace urges Binay to support climate resilience in Typhoon Lando

News / Food & Agriculture

Lao farmers devastated by severe drought

...flooding in some parts of the world and a devastating lack of rain in others. “The drought has taken place longer than usual, as El Niño has led to unseasonably little rain,” he said. “However, over t...

20 Jul 2015

Lao farmers devastated by severe drought

Press Releases / Designing City Resilience

City resilience challenges that will resonate across the world

...flood events and other climate change impacts. Participating cities are working toward having, or already have, a resilience plan in place. New York City, for example, published One New York: The pla...

6 May 2015

City resilience challenges that will resonate across the world

News / Policy & Finance

Toughen climate action every five years, UN draft suggests

...floods, droughts and heatwaves. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which fears rising sea levels, welcomed the new text as preserving key options such as rising funds to help developing nati...

6 Oct 2015

Toughen climate action every five years, UN draft suggests

News / Carbon & Climate

Philippine cities most at risk from disasters, study shows

...floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, volcanoes and landslides in more than 1,300 cities. It said of the 100 cities with the greatest exposure to natural hazards, 21 were located in the Philippines, 1...

5 Mar 2015

Philippine cities most at risk from disasters, study shows

News / Carbon & Climate

Warming world spells trouble for growing and ageing populations

...floods and storm surges: the restoration of mangrove forests, the protection of flood plains, and greater investment in forests, all of which will deliver benefits wider than simple protection against...

1 Dec 2014

Warming world spells trouble for growing and ageing populations

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The year of resilience

...floods and storms, ultimately provides $9.50 in savings. Similarly, the European Union estimates that €1 ($1.18) spent on flood protection brings €6 in savings. In the United Kingdom, for example, inv...

19 Jan 2015

The year of resilience

News / Carbon & Climate

World mayors warn of threats to mankind, commit to UN development goals

...floods, rising sea levels, and other climate-related threats," the pledge said. The UN is due to adopt the SDGs in September. They include 17 commitments from world leaders to eradicate hunger and ext...

23 Jul 2015

World mayors warn of threats to mankind, commit to UN development goals

News / Cities

Mercy Corps, Rockefeller climate resilience network looking for experts

...floods and drought are becoming a day-to-day climate reality in many parts of the world.” Protecting lives and livelihoods in a rapidly urbanising region, where poor and migrant populations are highly...

26 Feb 2015

Mercy Corps, Rockefeller climate resilience network looking for experts

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