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Resilience to climate change is less about building walls than cultivating the social capacities for people to navigate ...

Rowena Hill receives funding from Research Councils and Local Authorities to complete work on the impacts of climate change. She is affiliated with the Climate Security National Foresight Group. When ...

Climate adaptation should not just be about rebuilding after disaster; it should primarily be about keeping societies ...

The UNDP Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (2020–2025) shows that locally led climate adaptation, backed by flexible funding, capacity-building and global partnerships—can deliver real, ...

Many Australians will have been reading up recently on whether they are likely to be among the 1.5 million reported to be at risk of sea level rise or the 190% increase in heat-related deaths in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A climate technology advisor, investor and educator. For years we rarely talked about adaptation because it would constitute ...

As COP30 opens today in Belém, Brazil, the world faces a defining test: will nations turn climate finance promises into action, or allow adaptation efforts to falter amid rising climate disasters?

The world stands at a crossroads. The latest science leaves no doubt. We are on course in the short-term to overshoot the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit agreed in Paris. The U.N. secretary-general has ...

As the world grapples with how to tackle climate change, countries that signed the Paris Agreement outline their commitments ...