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 ...
Communities across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges in the Anthropocene. These challenges are particularly acute ...
Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town Adapting to climate change is becoming more and more urgent. It is ...
Johanna Nalau has received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is the Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change WGII and affiliated with the World ...
Investment in climate-change mitigation and adaptation to limit global warming to 2°C by 2100 would greatly reduce economic damage, and the cost of inaction is equivalent to 11% to 27% of cumulative ...
In late July, the U.S. Department of Energy released a 141-page review of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the United States. The report questioned formative peer-reviewed work on climate ...
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Adapting to the impacts of climate change

FROM prolonged droughts and destructive floods to heatwaves, cyclones and creeping food insecurity, the impacts of climate change are already reshaping lives and livelihoods.With an estimated 3.6 ...
Heatwaves, flooding, storms and droughts driven by climate change are making life more difficult for people around the world. Societies will need to adapt to these changes, but governments, businesses ...