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Rowena Hill receives funding from Research Councils and Local Authorities to complete work on the impacts of climate change. She is affiliated with the Climate Security National Foresight Group. When ...

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Stone pillars in the surge tank area of the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Japan has financed enormously ...

New research from the World Resources Institute finds that each $1 investment in climate adaptation can yield more than $10.50 in returns over 10 years, reflecting not only the avoided losses from ...

As the world grapples with how to tackle climate change, countries that signed the Paris Agreement outline their commitments ...

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In London, UK, last week, on a rare overseas trip, I attended the launch of a new campaign initiated by the Climate Majority Project to refocus the efforts of climate advocates from mitigation ...