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Adaptation in COP17 Durban: Opportunities for Clarity and Consolidation

By Heather McGray on November 26, 2011
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The Cancun Adaptation Framework agreed during COP16 provides potential for a new action orientation to adaptation under the UNFCCC.

Making Adaptation Count

By Heather McGray on October 17, 2011
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WRI’s new report, Making Adaptation Count, proposes a framework for monitoring and evaluating adaptat

Q & A on the Release of Climate Science 2009-2010

By Kelly Levin on October 12, 2011
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Today, WRI releases Climate Science 2009-2010, the latest installment in our periodic review of the state of play of the scienc

Learning Lessons from Wildfires, from Texas to Brazil

By Kelly Levin on September 15, 2011
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This post was written with James Anderson, Communications Coordinator at the World Resources Institute.

Famine in the Horn of Africa

By Heather McGray, Aarjan Dixit and Samah Elsayed on August 24, 2011
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As the climate changes, the global community and national governments both need to take action to prevent the kind of humanitarian disaster underway In parts of the Horn of Africa.

Report from Bangladesh: Turning Local Adaptation Lessons into National Policy

By Heather McGray on April 27, 2011

How can national policies support communities to adapt to climate change?

Adapting to Climate Change In Bangladesh

By Aarjan Dixit on April 14, 2011

Floating gardens, raised homes, and reflections from the field.

Towards a Climate Safe Common Future

By Gro Harlem Brundtland, Special Envoy on Climate Change for the UN Secretary-General on February 28, 2011

The two defining challenges of this century are climate change and poverty. Our challenge is to find a way to deal with both, at the same time.

This piece originally appeared on the World Resources Report website.

Climate Adaptation: Can Developing Countries Prepare for a Hotter Tomorrow?

By Manish Bapna and Kelly Levin on February 10, 2011

As well as urgently cutting emissions, nations everywhere need to take steps to adapt to a very different world.

Decision Making in a Changing Climate

By Kelly Levin on December 14, 2010

What are countries doing to prepare for climate change? A World Resources Report side event in Cancun highlights pioneering case studies from the developing world.

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