Futures Forum: Climate Week in Sidmouth ... The New Economics Foundation and systems change >>> "Coastal Communities and their Local Economies" >>> Saturday 7th March at 4.30pm
Last month, this was addressed at a meeting of the Institute of Directors:
Plymouth will 'hold the line' against effects of climate change, claims leading expert
By Plymouth Herald | Posted: February 10, 2015
PLYMOUTH will ‘hold the line’ against the effects of climate change for the next 100 years, a leading coastal erosion expert has claimed.
Prof Gerhard Masselink, a professor of coastal geomorphology at the University of Plymouth, told business leaders attending a climate change debate organised by the Institute of Directors, that the city would do whatever it costs to protect its assets, people and companies and spend millions of pounds on upholding its sea defences over the coming decades.
Prof Masselink along with Dr Steven Wade, head of scientific consultancy at the Exeter-based Met Office, the other keynote speaker at the Monday night event at the Plymouth Arts Centre, warned that coastal zones “may need to be rethought” as the cost of repairing weather damage becomes too great.
Plymouth will 'hold the line' against effects of climate change, claims leading expert | Plymouth Herald
Futures Forum: Climate change: "There is a 65% greater risk of flooding." >>> "We need to make sure businesses and communities are more resilient."
This is being addressed in many other places around the world:
Gambia: Coastal Resilience Project Strives to Ease Climate Stress
Futures Forum: Climate change: "There is a 65% greater risk of flooding." >>> "We need to make sure businesses and communities are more resilient."
This is being addressed in many other places around the world:
Gambia: Coastal Resilience Project Strives to Ease Climate Stress
17 FEBRUARY 2015
The project "enhancing resilience of vulnerable coastal areas and communities to climate change", is a four year project devised to enhance resilience of vulnerable coastal areas and communities to climate change and to reduce the country's vulnerability to sea level rise.
The project "enhancing resilience of vulnerable coastal areas and communities to climate change", is a four year project devised to enhance resilience of vulnerable coastal areas and communities to climate change and to reduce the country's vulnerability to sea level rise.
allAfrica.com: Gambia: Coastal Resilience Project Strives to Ease Climate Stress
allAfrica.com: Gambia: Climate Watch the Gambia Launched
Building coastal resilience to reduce climate change impact in Thailand and Indonesia
Latest news and case studies from the Building Coastal Resilience to Climate Change Programme
Thailand - Fighting coastal erosion in Krabi - Using bamboo to protect newly seeded mangroves
Thailand - How 'fish houses' are being used to improve fisherfolks' livelihoods in coastal regions
Indonesia - Improving access to climate information in South Sulawesi
Ocean acidification threatens coastal communities across the U.S.
February 23, 2015
allAfrica.com: Gambia: Climate Watch the Gambia Launched
Building coastal resilience to reduce climate change impact in Thailand and Indonesia
Latest news and case studies from the Building Coastal Resilience to Climate Change Programme
Thailand - Fighting coastal erosion in Krabi - Using bamboo to protect newly seeded mangroves
Thailand - How 'fish houses' are being used to improve fisherfolks' livelihoods in coastal regions
Indonesia - Improving access to climate information in South Sulawesi
Building coastal resilience to reduce climate change impact in Thailand and Indonesia
Fish farmers’ livelihood affected badly by death of fish stocks
Mar 6, 2015
Fish farmers have lost their entire stocks over the weekend due to plankton bloom.
Hundreds of tonnes of fish, both farmed and wild were washed up on the Straits of Johor, between Malaysia and Singapore causing fish farmers thousands of ringgit in losses.
According to reports in BBC.com one farmer, Bryan Ang, woke up on board his floating fish farm and found nearly all his stock dead.
Fish farmers’ livelihood affected badly by death of fish stocks
Mar 6, 2015
Fish farmers have lost their entire stocks over the weekend due to plankton bloom.
Hundreds of tonnes of fish, both farmed and wild were washed up on the Straits of Johor, between Malaysia and Singapore causing fish farmers thousands of ringgit in losses.
According to reports in BBC.com one farmer, Bryan Ang, woke up on board his floating fish farm and found nearly all his stock dead.
Fish farmers' livelihood affected badly by death of fish stocks - The Rakyat Post - The Rakyat Post
BBC News - Mass fish deaths off Singapore coast spark concern
Putting the Focus on Climate Change
Posted: 03/06/2015
When I am traveling up and down the Central Coast, I’ll often take Highway 154 through the Santa Ynez Mountains past beautiful Lake Cachuma, a source of drinking water for 220,000 people in southern Santa Barbara County.
But as the drought drags on, I — like many — am often struck by the sight of brush where once glistening lake water filled the cavernous space that is now much of Lake Cachuma. At full capacity just a few short years ago, Lake Cachuma is now just 28 percent full and depleting rapidly, despite significant conservation efforts.
Interior secretary visits eroding Alaska village; climate change leaves community vulnerable
February 17, 2015
KOTZEBUE, Alaska – Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is getting a firsthand look at the effects of climate change on Alaska coastal communities.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1vTc1dX) reports Jewell on Monday visited Kivalina (kiv-ah-LEE'-nah), a community of 370 on a barrier island just off Alaska's northwest coast.
The island for decades was protected from erosion by sea ice that provided a natural sea barrier to fierce Chukchi (chuk-CHEE') Sea storms.
Jewell says erosion's effects on the village are obvious, as is residents' fears of losing their homes.
BBC News - Mass fish deaths off Singapore coast spark concern
Climate change ‘threatens self-determination’ of citizens in island States, UN rights council told
Children in the village of Tebikenikora, on Kiribati’s main Tarawa atoll. Will they have to move one day as a result of climate change? UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
6 March 2015 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council today, senior UN officials joined high-level delegates from Pacific Island States that are on the frontline of the global battle against sea-level rise to examine the potentially devastating impact of climate change on human rights.
6 March 2015 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council today, senior UN officials joined high-level delegates from Pacific Island States that are on the frontline of the global battle against sea-level rise to examine the potentially devastating impact of climate change on human rights.
Putting the Focus on Climate Change
Posted: 03/06/2015
When I am traveling up and down the Central Coast, I’ll often take Highway 154 through the Santa Ynez Mountains past beautiful Lake Cachuma, a source of drinking water for 220,000 people in southern Santa Barbara County.But as the drought drags on, I — like many — am often struck by the sight of brush where once glistening lake water filled the cavernous space that is now much of Lake Cachuma. At full capacity just a few short years ago, Lake Cachuma is now just 28 percent full and depleting rapidly, despite significant conservation efforts.
Putting the Focus on Climate Change | Rep. Lois Capps
Focusing on Climate Change
Climate change affects fresh water - Business Insider
Focusing on Climate Change
Climate change affects fresh water - Business Insider
Interior secretary visits eroding Alaska village; climate change leaves community vulnerable
February 17, 2015
KOTZEBUE, Alaska – Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is getting a firsthand look at the effects of climate change on Alaska coastal communities.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1vTc1dX) reports Jewell on Monday visited Kivalina (kiv-ah-LEE'-nah), a community of 370 on a barrier island just off Alaska's northwest coast.
The island for decades was protected from erosion by sea ice that provided a natural sea barrier to fierce Chukchi (chuk-CHEE') Sea storms.
Jewell says erosion's effects on the village are obvious, as is residents' fears of losing their homes.
Ocean acidification threatens coastal communities across the U.S.
February 23, 2015
The first nationwide vulnerability assessment for ocean acidification, published today in Nature Climate Change, shows that coastal communities in 15 states that depend on the nation’s approximately $1 billion shelled-mollusk (e.g., oysters and clams) industry are at long-term economic risk from ocean acidification.
Investor pressure to stimulate catastrophe re/insurance demand
by ARTEMIS on MARCH 5, 2015
Large corporations are under increasing pressure to disclose and ultimately financially protect themselves against weather, climate and natural disaster risks, the result of which will be a growing demand for insurance, reinsurance and risk transfer.
Artemis first wrote about the call to get corporations to take responsibility for their disaster and weather risks fives years ago. But in the last couple of years the pressure is mounting, with the United Nations and other global organisations now pushing for international accounting standards to include a level of disclosure.
by ARTEMIS on MARCH 5, 2015
Large corporations are under increasing pressure to disclose and ultimately financially protect themselves against weather, climate and natural disaster risks, the result of which will be a growing demand for insurance, reinsurance and risk transfer.
Artemis first wrote about the call to get corporations to take responsibility for their disaster and weather risks fives years ago. But in the last couple of years the pressure is mounting, with the United Nations and other global organisations now pushing for international accounting standards to include a level of disclosure.
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