Building Cities’ Resilience Thru Knowledge Sharing
Enhancing the cities' resilience is crucial due to more natural disasters, extreme events due to climate change and rapid urbanisation.
The Cost of Getting to Net-Zero
What will it cost for governments and companies to reach net-zero, and what are the economic costs to fulfil the net-zero goal?
Climate Change Action through Tracking Carbon Emissions
Measuring and tracking the carbon emissions of each country or industry is a great tool to see whether climate actions are kept and adequate.
Climatic Threats to NZ’s Coastal Properties
With the sea levels rising twice the rate, owners could see their coastal properties uninsurable earlier than expected. Who will pay?
NZ’s Infrastructure Strategy Tackles Climate Change
The NZ Infrastructure Strategy features the impacts of climate change, the century's defining challenge; infrastructure is a vital solution.
What the University of Auckland’s THE Impact Rankings 2022 Means
The University of Auckland got 6th place in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022. Read more to know what it is all about.
Is the 1.5°C Global Warming Limit Still Achievable?
Is there still hope to meet the Paris Agreement targets, and how the energy transition will be affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Climate Change Linked to Rising Disaster Events and Losses – UNDRR Reports
The frequency of extreme events worldwide is getting hard to ignore, especially the enormous suffering and losses caused by the crises.
Building Climate Resilience in MENA Countries
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are globally the driest regions, with severe droughts bringing enormous suffering to the community.
Climate Adaptation and Infrastructure Asset Management’s Important Role
Climate change and extreme events on infrastructure led the IAM discipline to adopt adaptation approaches and strategies for infrastructure.
NZ’s Sea Levels Rising Twice the Rate?
Data from the NZ SeaRise informs that sea-level rise in New Zealand is rising "twice as fast", reducing authorities' response time.
Draft NZ Climate Adaptation Plan Released for Public Submissions
New Zealand's national adaptation plan presents the climate change impacts, identifies priority risks and how to address these risks.
Climate Change Causing Future Winter Storms Now
The Weizmann Institute of Science led a study that shows that storms are intensifying in Southern mid-latitudes in recent decades.
Climate Change Preparation Using Climate Risk Tools
The UNEP published the "Climate Risk Tool Landscape, 2022 Supplement" to inform financial institutions on managing climate-related risks.
Earth Day Celebration Highlights the Climate Crisis
Google celebrated the 22 April 2022 earth day with a doodle featuring time-lapse imagery from Google Earth showing climate change impacts.
Reducing Flood Risks with Nature-based Solutions
Read about the probabilistic risk analysis framework and how it can boost the adoption of nature-based solutions to mitigate flood risks.
Climate Change Mitigation through Lifestyle and Consumption Shifts
The hope is to mitigate and adapt to climate change with more people making eco-friendly lifestyle changes regardless of social status.
Why is Nuclear Power More Attractive Today
Transitioning to a net-zero economy makes small modular nuclear power a feasible, sustainable and reliable solution to replace fossil fuels.
Climate Resilient City Template – Almere, Netherlands
The newest city in the Netherlands provides a glimpse of what a future climate-resilient city looks like. Read to know more.
Climate Change Will Hospitalize More People?
As climate change warms the planet, a new study finds that many will suffer hyponatremia and be hospitalised.
What the Global Climate Adaptation Research Collection Tells Us
A climate adaptation literature stocktake reveals that studies were fragmented. Researchers identified priorities for adaptation research.
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