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- The Portland Clean Energy Fund, a tax-funded grant program to fight climate change and social inequities, created a heat response program called Cooling Portland.
- As climate impacts bite, greater resilience becomes critical. Tom Mitchell sets out four areas where businesses can protect themselves and others, while seizing opportunities to market resilience-enhancing products.
- As climate impacts bite, greater resilience becomes critical. Tom Mitchell sets out four areas where businesses can protect themselves and others, while seizing opportunities to market resilience-enhancing products.
- India's farmers face mounting losses as drought worsens, with some even driven to suicide, spurring calls for social protection to ease the pressure. About 30 farmers died by suicide daily in 2021.
- India's farmers face mounting losses as drought worsens, with some even driven to suicide, spurring calls for social protection to ease the pressure. About 30 farmers died by suicide daily in 2021.
- Smallholder farmers in Kenya who fall victim to floods will soon be indemnified with recovery funds almost immediately after the disaster, according to officials.
- Smallholder farmers in Kenya who fall victim to floods will soon be indemnified with recovery funds almost immediately after the disaster, according to officials.
- After Christchurch earthquakes, the engineering community was alarmed at the performance failures of modern buildings. One design initiative to come from the destruction and loss in New Zealand was to build structures with functional recovery in mind.
- After Christchurch earthquakes, the engineering community was alarmed at the performance failures of modern buildings. One design initiative to come from the destruction and loss in New Zealand was to build structures with functional recovery in mind.
- From the 12th to the 14th of February 2023, northern and eastern regions of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Te Ika-a-Māui (North Island) were hit by extremely heavy rainfall associated with the passage of ex-tropical cyclone Gabrielle.