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  • Heather McGray & Kathleen Mogelgaard, World Resources Institute

    Not Just Mitigation: National Climate Plans Raise Adaptation’s Profile

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    August 13, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Heather McGray and Kathleen Mogelgaard, appeared at the World Resources Institute.

    As the world prepares for a pivotal climate conference in Paris this December, countries are offering their national plans to tackle a changing climate. These plans, known as intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), contain details of what each country is prepared to do as part of a new global climate agreement. While the public focus is often on mitigation – how much countries are willing to reduce emissions, by when, and with what degree of transparency – adaptation to the impacts of climate change demands the same level of attention. In fact, the last round of international climate talks in Lima invited parties to include adaptation in their INDCs.

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  • “No Precedent in Human History”: Ruth Greenspan Bell on Why Climate Change Demands More Than the UNFCCC

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    Friday Podcasts  //  June 19, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara
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    The stakes are high for the UN climate conference in Paris later this year, so high in fact, some scholars feel it’s foolish to be putting all our eggs in one basket.

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  • Small-Island States Continue Long Crusade for Recognition of Climate Damages

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    Friday Podcasts  //  April 24, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara
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    “Even though small-island nation states generally are responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, small islands are already expending scare resources on strategies to adapt to growing climate threats and to also repair themselves after they have hit,” says Maxine Burkett, associate professor of law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in this week’s podcast.

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  • Fiona Harvey, Ensia

    Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the UN Climate Talks But Were Afraid to Ask

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    March 5, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Fiona Harvey, appeared on Ensia as part one of a context series leading up to COP-21 in Paris beginning November 30. 

    Climate change negotiations seem to crawl along interminably at the pace of the glaciers they are meant to protect, with little perceptible progress as meeting follows meeting and conference follows lackluster conference. But this year we are seeing remarkable momentum building toward a historic conference in Paris in the closing days of 2015, by the end of which we will either have a new international agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, or we will have seen the last of truly global efforts to strike a deal on saving our planet.

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  • William Butz: Investment in Human Capital, Not Engineering, Central to Climate Resilience

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    Friday Podcasts  //  December 5, 2014  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    “How does climate change affect people by age and sex, and where they live?” asks William Butz, director of coordination and outreach at the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital, in this week’s podcast. “And how to do they respond? How do they adapt or fail to adapt?”

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  • Next Stop, Lima: Building Momentum for a New Global Agreement on Climate Change

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    December 1, 2014  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    This fall, a series of significant events signaled what many see as a shift toward meaningful collective action on climate change.

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