Adaptation

Analysis & investigations

  • Adaptation, Culture

Seeing the storm ahead

Adaptation is not only about finance and technology - it is about visualising change. Bertie Harrison-Broninski reads John Vaillant's 'Fire Weather' and Stephen Robert Miller's 'Over the Seawall'.
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  • Adaptation, Agriculture

Paddy farming below sea level – how traditional knowledge could save the future

Climate adaptation should not be approached with universal solutions. Designed primarily by and for affluent communities, the solutions considered best practice are often examples of “maladaptation,” causing more problems in the long term than the challenges they are trying to solve.
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Opinion

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  • Opinion

A Sri Lankan village was offered help from the UN’s Green Climate Fund – now they feel misled

New research looked at an adaptation project funded by the World Bank & UNFCCC-run Green Climate Fund. Instead of helping farmers, it helped their corporate partners.
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  • Opinion

What is the financial cost of loss and damage from climate change?

Even conservative estimates show the climate crisis has cost poor countries more than half a trillion dollars already - it is past time to define and fund loss and damage, say A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci
Climate Reparations
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  • Opinion

Why we need a Global Climate Reparations Fund

Loss and damage from climate change has already cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Professors A. Karim Ahmed and Audrey Chapman propose a mechanism to address the moral and financial debt owed by highly industrialised nations.

Podcasts

  • Adaptation, Politics & law
Are the Iran protests a climate story? 
Bertie is joined by Dr Sanam Mahoozi to discuss reporting of Iran’s environmental crises.
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  • Adaptation, Culture, Politics & law
Can climate cause regime change?
Dr. Dagomar Degroot returns to talk to Alasdair about climate change’s role in societal collapse.
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  • Adaptation, Forests
Have wildfires become a major public health risk? 
Bertie speaks with Copernicus senior scientist Mark Parrington about 2025’s record-breaking wildfire pollution.
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  • Adaptation
What happens when climate adaptation goes wrong?
Bertie speaks to environmental journalist Stephen Robert Miller about his new book, 'Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature'.
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  • Politics & law
“A misuse of treaties”: Russian oligarchs are using investor-state disputes to sue Ukraine
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  • Bioenergy, Politics & law
Drax’s US environmental violations now total over 18,000 incidents
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  • Bioenergy, Politics & law
Drax biomass led to disabling health conditions, say unions and workers
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  • Agriculture, Politics & law
La loi Duplomb: a gift for the French agro-industrial complex? 
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  • Politics & law
A longstanding battle: Māori efforts to protect the Whanganui River
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  • Fossil fuels, Markets, Politics & law
How Exxon is using international law to sue the Dutch government
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  • Fossil fuels, Markets, Politics & law
“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South
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  • Bioenergy, Politics & law
Drax-owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US
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