Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Climate adaptation relates is the process of adjusting in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate hazards, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. Climate change adaptation is closely related to disaster risk management as they both aim to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to disasters. Climate change as a risk driver refers to how changes in the global climate drive extreme weather events and disaster risk.


Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

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Heat wave, France
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Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization have issued their second joint annual report on the European State of the Climate.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Documents and publications

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. The European State of the Climate 2024 (ESOTC 2024) report involves around 100 scientific contributors providing holistic yet concise insights into Europe’s climate.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Thunderstorm over fields in South Africa.
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A research scientist found that many 1970s-era models were ‘pretty much spot-on.’ Today’s models are far more advanced.

Yale Climate Connections
People wade through a flooded road in Assam, India (2019)
Update

Flooding during the pre-monsoon (April-May) season, known as kallakkadal, are caused by swelling waves originating thousands of kilometres away in the Indian Ocean. These swell waves can reportedly reach two to six metres in height.

Science and Development Network
Research briefs

In this study, the researchers showed that High Mountain Asia experiences an average of 22.4 rain-on-snow (ROS) days per year, with the Ganges Basin having the highest frequency at 45.8 days.

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Update

A proposed tech solution to help save Arctic ice cover meets criticisms of scaling and moral hazards.

Grist Magazine
Industrial air pollution
Research briefs

Almost half of global average temperature rise and a third of sea-level rise can be attributed to the “carbon majors,” the world’s 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers, a recent paper shows.

Mongabay
Riksha drivers walking through the flooded streets in Bangladesh in 2020.
Research briefs

With projected global warming, the frequency of extreme storms will ramp up by the end of the century, according to a new study.

MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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