NEWS: Insurers on the frontline of climate change say more investment is needed in resilient infrastructure
NEWS: Focus on limits to adaptation within the new IPCC report could sharpen focus on loss and damage within UN talks
Adaptation Fund must find predictable stream of money in the wake of carbon market collapse, say board members
Former Environment Secretary Lord Deben says national flood programmes have been neglected in past two decades
USA’s Secretary of State visits vulnerable Mekong Delta and promises to support efforts to cope with rising sea levels
Leading planning agency calls for more resilient infrastructure, warning global warming cost country $32.9 billion since 1990
Submissions to UN say they require $1.4 billion in funding to prepare for extreme weather events
Focus on land in adapting or prepare for the imminent social chaos – the choice is ours says UN desertification chief Monique Barbut
Working against internationally binding CO2 reduction targets, the US pivots to climate change adaptation
Monique Barbut says Convention should develop adaptation ‘indicators’ for 2015 climate change summit in Paris
Conservation International study highlights need for adaptation funding to be increased and targetted at specific regions
Golf courses around the world could be facing a bleak future unless they move quickly to introduce climate change adaptation strategies
Leaders convene in Fiji for four day summit as rising tides and storms start to take toll on world’s most climate vulnerable countries
Belgium, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the USA offer nearly $200 million in climate adaptation investment to the world’s poorest countries
Industry think tank warns “quasi-irreversible” shift in ocean temperatures will end business as usual and calls for more adaptation investment
As extreme weather events become more common, the mobile phone is being recognised as an important tool for warnings that can save lives
Local expert tells RTCC lives could have been saved if government had enforced rules banning construction of buildings on flood plans
UNEP chief Achim Steiner says companies must factor in accelerating environmental change into their long-term planning
New report assesses climate impacts for world’s most vulnerable regions, finds many unable to cope with even moderate warming
Morning Summary: New storm barriers, flood walls, levies and sand dunes proposed for NYC in response to damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012