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Seeking a Cure for Portal Proliferation Syndrome
By Geoff Barnard, Climate and Development Knowledge Network The symptoms are familiar. You seem to hear about a new climate information portal or knowledge platform being launched every week. You...
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Vulnerability Assessments: Working with Smallholder Coffee Producers
By Jessica Frank, Twin Twin works in partnership with over 50 farmer organisations world wide, facilitating market access and helping to build business and organisational capacity. We are currently...
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Some of My Favorite Climate Change Adaptation Resources
By Shaun Martin, WWF-US It can be challenging to find climate change adaptation resources that explain complex concepts to lay audiences in easy-to-understand language. Academic journal articles,...
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Climate Change Impacts like Drought and Floods: STOP SAYING THAT!
By Shaun Martin, WWF-US With this post I am inaugurating a new series called “STOP SAYING THAT!,” a look at the use of language in climate change adaptation and how well-intentioned, knowledgeable...
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No Regrets Adaptation Actions: STOP SAYING THAT!
By Shaun Martin, WWF-US For the past two years, I have on occasion encountered the term “no regrets” being used to describe adaptation actions that will ostensibly solve everyone’s problems....
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Understanding Human-Climate Complexities by Playing Interactive Games
By Andrew Zubiri, Global Environmental Facility As London prepared for the Olympics a few weeks ago, a different type of games were held in the Washington DC office of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)....
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Helping Vulnerable People Cope with Climate Change: STOP SAYING THAT!
Shaun Martin, WWF-US Allow me to begin by saying I am all for helping vulnerable people. As in previous entries in this series, I am less concerned whether or not this phrase is technically correct and...
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Thirty Percent Increase in Precipitation by 2100: STOP SAYING THAT!
By Shaun Martin, WWF-US It’s Monday morning, October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy is strengthening as she approaches the US east coast. In Washington, DC the US federal government is closed, public...
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Embracing Uncertainty: Is it that Hard?
By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Call me crazy, but I have no idea how long I will live and yet I am still planning for my retirement. Nor do I know what illnesses may come my way or when they will occur, but I...
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Honest Conversations: Climate Change and Uncertainty
By Sara S. Moore Uncertainty is hard. Planning for uncertain events, particularly highly uncertain and dangerous events, is even more difficult. Even certain events with uncertain timing, like an...
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Conducting Social Science Research: Reflections
By Alexander Stubbings In 2011, I was studying climate change at the University of East Anglia. When it came time to choose a thesis topic, I knew I wanted to use the natural sciences to help solve a...
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We Need Evidence, Not Anecdotes
By Dr. Hannah Reid Natural ecosystems are widely acknowledged to be important in helping the world’s poor secure food, water, shelter, energy, a safe environment in which to live and work, and a...
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Conservation in a Changing Climate: Asia’s High Mountains
By Manishka De Mel Comprising the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya, Tien Shan, Pamir, Kunlun, and Altai Sayan ranges, the High Mountains of Asia are characterized by the world’s tallest peaks and snow-covered...
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