adaptation Archive

  • Climate change adaptation: Floating schools in Bangladesh

    Climate change adaptation: Floating schools in Bangladesh

    The South Asian country of Bangladesh is one of the places in the world considered most vulnerable to climate change....
  • Moving Towards an 
Adaptation Committee

    Moving Towards an 
Adaptation Committee

    ECO supports the call from many developing country Parties for a new adaptation institution. Adaptation is still highly fragmented under...
  • Progressing the Nairobi Work Programme

    Progressing the Nairobi Work Programme

    Let’s face it, there hasn’t been that much progress here in Bonn to address the climate challenge. So ECO wants...
  • Loss, Damage and Survival

    Loss, Damage and Survival

    The failure of industrialized countries to reduce emissions and provide support for adaptation  means that some countries on the frontline...
  • The 4Qs of Adaptation

    The 4Qs of Adaptation

    Stressed negotiators hurrying into today’s adaptation focused LCA contact group need not worry if they have arrived somewhat unprepared.  ECO...
  • EU starts fast, but…

    EU starts fast, but…

    ECO is eagerly awaiting today’s side event at which the EU will present its preliminary report on its fast start...
  • How Biodiversity Supports Climate Resilience

    How Biodiversity Supports Climate Resilience

    This is the International Year of Biodiversity.  ‘So what’ ECO hears you say. ‘Nothing to do with us – we...
  • Pas d’odeur, mais beaucoup de qualités !

    Pas d’odeur, mais beaucoup de qualités !

    Le groupe de contact (de négociations) sur le financement de l’adaptation au changement climatique vient juste de se finir. Deux...
  • Taking Stock of the Gigatonne Gap

    Taking Stock of the Gigatonne Gap

    ECO is deeply concerned that the planet is on a fast track to dangerous climate change. The lack of ambition...
  • Adaptation Fund Review

    Adaptation Fund Review

    The Adaptation Fund (AF) is a self-standing fund established under the Kyoto Protocol in order to finance concrete adaptation projects...