Tag Archive | climate change
Climate change: water supply in developing countries will be hit hardest
Adapting raw industrial and domestic water supply to climate change could cost US$ 12 billion per year, with up to 90% of this needed in developing countries, according to new research [1]. A research team from the Netherlands, US and UK found that the highest costs are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though US$ 12 billion seems […]
Research grants: IDRC’s Graduate Research Awards on Climate Change and Water (2010−2011)
The International Development Research Centre’s Climate Change and Water programme aims to help developing country researchers to understand the consequences of climate change on water resources and to find ways to improve the ability of citizens and governments to adapt to the changing environment. The program has recently launched a call for proposals for its new graduate research […]
Climate change: the unpredictability of adaptation funding for developing countries
Money has been a contentious aspect of global climate change. Are rich countries keeping their end of the bargain in helping poor countries adapt to increasingly erratic weather patterns? Are some poor countries exaggerating financial needs or their ability to spend funds? There are two main issues: the amount of external finance needed to help […]
Climate change: high adaptation costs for water sector, World Bank study says
“Water supply and flood management, ranks as one of the top three climate adaptation costs in both the wetter and drier scenario, with Sub-Saharan Africa footing by far the highest costs” says a new World Bank report. The draft global report of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study (EACC) calculates the cost between […]
The price tag for adapting to climate change
Countries staring into a gloomy future of low food production, less water, higher storm surges, longer dry periods and other expensive consequences of climate change have been told they can adapt at a cost ranging from several hundred billion dollars to over a trillion dollars. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [is helping] […]
Climate change: How much money for adaptation?
With barely six months left before countries have to clinch a climate change deal in Copenhagen in December [2009], a call for more money – over and above development aid – to help poor countries adapt to climate change has been backed by a major report. The report – Closing the Gaps: Disaster Risk Reduction […]
