Climate change

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

Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

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La Nina and warmer-than-average ocean temperatures will be major drivers of tropical activity.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hurricane Florence seen from Space in September 2018
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If the National Hurricane Center’s early forecast is right, the North Atlantic could see 17 to 25 named storms, 8 to 13 hurricanes, and 4 to 7 major hurricanes by the end of November. That’s the most named storms in any NOAA preseason forecast.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications
This report aims to summarize the current state of knowledge on adaptation measurement and provide practical guidance on what adaptation measurement might look like in different sectors.
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Documents and publications
This research presents unprecedented datasets of current and future projected weather files for building simulations in 15 major cities distributed across 10 climate zones worldwide.
Global concept of climate change
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Climate adaptation encompasses many approaches. In some cases, adaptation takes the form of physical structures that can be seen and touched, such as constructing flood control infrastructure like dams and weirs
Climatelinks
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC137322
Documents and publications
The aim of this report is to investigate the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, based on empirical analyses.
Marine heatwaves during winter could have dire impacts on New Zealand fisheries and herald more summer storms
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The ocean heat could fuel an unusually active hurricane season.
Yale Climate Connections
Research briefs
A new paper shows that social networks can play a significant role in influencing the financial behaviors and perception of catastrophic risks brought about by climate change.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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