This working group will explore how improved agricultural management can help to make land-use systems more resilient against climate change. Management of pastureland and cropland strongly affects agricultural productivity, environmental impacts, and resource-use efficiencies. Management aspects need to be better understood and represented in simulation models and future scenarios to
Motivation Climate change, alongside biodiversity loss and other planetary crises, is arguably “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” (Lancet 2009) because it destroys our living conditions on the planet – through increased storms and floods, heat and drought, harvest failures and famines, infections, conflicts and migration. It
Research on Climate Resilience is embedded in the overall PIK strategy. Climate impacts will affect the ability of societies to stay within the Planetary Boundaries, e.g. regarding sustainable freshwater use, land system change or biosphere integrity. Climate impacts will also provide new challenges for managing the Global Commons, like land,
The updated FAA 118/119 Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Analysis Best Practices Guide 2.0 provides practical how-to advice for USAID staff and contractors conducting the analysis.
Among the most significant impacts of climate change is the potential increase of food insecurity and malnutrition. But, how exactly? This infographic shows how more frequent and intense droughts and floods affect the most vulnerable households at risk of hunger, and what WFP is doing to help people adapt and
The GEF supports adaptation to climate change in developing countries through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), which supports urgent, medium and long-term adaptation needs in least developed countries (LDCs), and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), accessible by all developing countries.
Global warming is an extremely serious and urgent issue. As much as the media can make it look otherwise when, for example, comparing it to cybersecurity issues, it’s not. There are no disputes within the scientific community, there is no need for fear mongering – if we don’t make radical
If humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the average temperature of the Earth’s lower atmosphere could rise more than 4°C (7.2°F) by the end of the 21st century. But what does a rise in the global average temperature really mean? How would we experience it on a daily basis?
Researchers from the ESA Climate Change Initiative tackle the issue of consistency between satellite-based Climate Data Records (CDRs), in a new paper published today [3 July,2020] in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/doi/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0127.1/348541/Consistency-of-satellite-climate-data-records-for
