Building an innovative market mechanism to finance climate adaptation projects in vulnerable communities.
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The HGF is proud to announce a newly launched project on VRCs to enable adaptation metrics for integrated systems and contexts, supported by the Green Climate Fund and UNDP in Cote d'Ivoire. We look forward to meeting you in Glasgow from November 8 - 11.
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In the wake of the G7, read this incisive commentary by Deborah Glaser on the need for the White House to increase its focus on leading on climate adaptation:
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📢 SAVE THE DATE: Upcoming webinar on '#Challenges of #Adaptation Metrics: IPAM's Proposed #Framework'
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏰ 1630 IST | 1300 CET | 0700 EST
For more info on @IPAM_Metrics, tune in to
➡️adaptationmetrics.org/ !!!
#AF2020
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Blog Post: We Live with a System Replete with Disincentives to Sustainable Adaptation
Do you agree?
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#sustainability #climateadaptation #MandE #adaptationmetrics #incentives
For those who couldn't make it to the webinar, the full set of presentations can be found here:
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The formulation of climate #adaptation metrics is one of the great challenges of our time. Join the International Platform on Adaptation Metrics, IPAM adaptationmetrics.org/ for its Membership Opening on Nov. 5: forms.gle/8isNCufDCcZHWJyH6
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The formulation of climate #adaptation metrics is one of the great challenges of our time. Join the International Platform on Adaptation Metrics, IPAM adaptationmetrics.org/ for its Membership Opening on Nov. 5: forms.gle/8isNCufDCcZHWJyH6
Tag: @TheHGF @bc3research @AAAInitiative
Annnd part 2 of Elizabeth Ristroph's blog post is up. Here, she concludes with an impassioned call to action for Louisiana to "do better" in adapting to sea level rise and several effective tools, including the VRC, that can get them there:
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Restoring sinking coast lines in the face of sea level rise would seem to be environmentally beneficial, but is it environmentally just? thehighergroundfoundation.or…
Check out our new blog post on the need to apply whole-system thinking to adaptation, courtesy of Paul Forte:
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Well worth checking out: Parts I-IV of Blake Gentry's long-form read on climate adaptation in the Arctic by indigenous communities are now up on our blog site. thehighergroundfoundation.or…
We want to learn about – and hope we might contribute to - the transformational adaptation of Utiqiagivk and similar communities. thehighergroundfoundation.or…
Given the data and assessment challenges of adaptation, any progress on integrating Machine Learning into VRCs and other solutions for understanding climate risk, exposures, and alternative adaptation investments has to be a top priority:
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#VRCs #ML #AI
HGF has created a database of contingent valuation approaches that may apply for climate impacts and adaptation evaluation. We welcome dialogue, and hope to use it to support VRC methodology development. thehighergroundfoundation.or…
We Carry Our History with Us: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
Thinking outside the box about indigenous peoples and our lives under climate change is our goal. See our new web page and consider contributing. thehighergroundfoundation.or…
Check out Higher Ground's new blog; first post on indigenous communities:
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Karl Schulz of @TheHGF explores Vulnerability Reduction Credits (VRCs) as a new way to measure the outputs of climate #Adaptation projects
Greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.3% globally in 2013 according to @GlobalCarbonProject. Progress in Europe with a 1.8% decrease in emissions