building vulnerability Articles
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Before disaster strikes: Preparing for complex emergencies with anticipatory action
Enhancing disaster preparedness and building resilience in fragile settings requires fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities involved. Floods, landslides, cyclones, droughts, and heat waves are just a number of rapid and slow-onset disasters that are becoming increasingly prevalent as a result of climate change. The vulnerability of both human and natural systems is increasingly ...
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US contributions to a World Bank administered clean technology fund
The proposed Congressional appropriation of US$400 million per year over five years to support the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries could demonstrate much awaited United States leadership in responding to the global crisis of climate change. If these resources are invested wisely, the benefits will reach under-served communities in developing countries in desperate ...
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3 Ways Governments Can Involve the Private Sector in Climate Change Adaptation
As the impacts of climate change become ever-clearer, so does the challenge of adaptation. While the World Bank estimates that developing countries will need $70-$100 billion annually through 2050 to adapt to climate change, the public sector alone cannot meet this financial goal. Rather, the world needs the human, technical, and financial resources of the private sector to help bridge this ...
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Carbon Sequestration: Addressing Climate Change and Food Security through Sustainable Agriculture
Introduction To meet the demands of a growing, increasingly urban global population (approximately 9 billion by 2050), the World Bank calculates that global food production must increase by 70% in the next 35 years. This is a great challenge not only because of the volume of food that must be produced, but because agricultural conditions will not remain constant or predicable in the years to ...
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Scaling-up investments in natural infrastructure
Wetlands occur wherever water meets land. These deltas, marshes, rivers, lakes and watersheds are the water systems that link the natural world and human societies, and make it possible to clean, store and provide water to grow food and run businesses. As we prepare to participate in the 7th World Water Forum in South Korea, I want to bring attention to the need to scale up investments in ...
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Why city resilience will be an issue at Rio+20
Once, the word of the moment was sustainability, and within years sustainable development became a widely-used to concept. Now, the popular term is "resilience", and the resilience of cities to environmental and social pressures is seen as a major issue for governments and peoples around the world. This concept underlay many of the events at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi (12-15 December), ...
By SciDev.Net
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Adapting for a Green Economy: companies, communities and climate change
Drawing on the results of a 2010 survey of corporate signatories to the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Environment Programme Caring for Climate initiative, as well as on existing literature, this report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries. It then offers ...
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How innovative financing models can build climate change resilience
Communities across the world continue to experience weather-induced food shortages due to drought, floods, devastating wildfires, and other climate change impacts. These populations—particularly those in rural, developing regions—will require tools and significant investment to protect themselves and their livelihoods from a warming world. This week, the Board of the Green Climate ...
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The Strategic Inter-Institutional Agenda in Guatemala
Working together to create resilient communities, the Partners for Resilience3 (PfR) identified a significant opportunity to increase collaboration between the governing bodies in Guatemala. Partners for Resilience joins the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), the Executive Secretariat of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (SE-CONRED), and the National Council ...
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