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UNEP-FI workshop: Water & Climate Risk in the Private Sector
12/10/11 10:00
Recently, I was speaking to a representative for a major global corporation in China about climate change and the need for preparing and adapting for coming impacts. He was curious but somewhat skeptical. Climate change was primarily an issue he had heard about from a carbon perspective — how can we reduce carbon emissions? Why should he worry about impacts? I asked him about some of his business interests. He mentioned preparing infrastructure, medium- and long-term planning, investment strategies. He mentioned agriculture and energy. He never mentioned water. I said, even if you don’t realize you’re in the water business, you’re in the water business. And the water business means that you’re also in the climate adaptation business. Carbon may be important for meeting laws and regulations. Water is going to be important for profits and economic security.
Along those lines, last March the United Nations Environment Program–Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) approached the World Bank, Conservation International, and (most importantly) the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation to help organize a workshop for corporate and private investors and banks to look at how the risk landscape is shifting and will continue to shift with climate.
The workshop is scheduled for 21 October 2011 in Washington, DC, USA, and only a few slots remain. REGISTER NOW! Registration and workshop details are below! Read More...
Along those lines, last March the United Nations Environment Program–Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) approached the World Bank, Conservation International, and (most importantly) the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation to help organize a workshop for corporate and private investors and banks to look at how the risk landscape is shifting and will continue to shift with climate.
The workshop is scheduled for 21 October 2011 in Washington, DC, USA, and only a few slots remain. REGISTER NOW! Registration and workshop details are below! Read More...
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Major UN adapation meeting
28/09/11 15:03
Climate Adaptation Futures: Second International Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2012 May 29–May 31, 2012, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
On the way to Rio+20, join us to consider what science, policy, and action the world needs to adapt to climate change!
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On the way to Rio+20, join us to consider what science, policy, and action the world needs to adapt to climate change!
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New UN adaptation and vulnerability site
16/09/11 15:34
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have jointly launched a new website for PROVIA – the Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation. Read More...
Report from Kenya: The Nairobi Guiding Principles of 2009
24/04/09 12:35
So many critical issues surround climate change adaptation (and so much bad news keeps popping up from climate impacts science), I sometimes find knowing where to focus very difficult. But sometimes there is good news. I’ve just returned from a very fast meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, at the United Nations compound. Under the sponsorship of the Danish government, a new global framework and set of guiding principles for climate adaptation has been created (available as a PDF download). These principles are aimed at three distinct audiences: participants in and observers of the big UNFCCC CoP meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009, those institutions that are funding climate adaptation work right now, and the international movement to define climate adaptation theory, policy, and practice in coming decades. Here, I will provide personal reflections on my attendance on the discussions leading up to, at, and beyond the Nairobi meeting.
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