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Africa: Innovative Adaptation Cuts Climate Risks
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 December 2015
Bolivia produces national, regional and even city weather predictions and warnings. But getting that information into the hands of people in the path of an oncoming drought or… Read more »
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West Africa: Extreme Weather Set to Foil Sahel Knowledge
SciDev.Net, 4 December 2015
Technology and expertise from outside are needed to support traditional knowledge and help people in Africa's arid Sahel region cope with climate change, according to researchers. Read more »
Innovative Adaptation Cuts Climate Risks
As extreme weather and other climate impacts strengthen around the world, building resilience to them will require innovative thinking, particularly from the people closest to the problems, writes Thomson Reuters Foundation.
For the people living in the Sahel region of Mali, climate change is not a question of debate; it's an undeniable reality and a pressing concern. For decades the climate has been getting hotter and drier.
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From restoring degraded land to financing hydropower dams and creating jobs for refugees, the world needs to come up with more innovative solutions to the linked challenges of ... Read more »
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Governments will push hard at UN climate talks to right what they see as a global wrong that is now becoming starker: a drought of financial support to help the people who are ... Read more »
