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As part of the Resilient Coastal Communities Project, she's been working with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and Columbia Climate School's Center for Sustainable Urban Development on a project to address flood risk in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, and she's written about her experience on Medium.
"All areas within New Zealand have a high proportion of coastline to land area, and for my home in the subtropical Far North'a long, narrow peninsula' this is especially true,'" she writes.
"Nature-based solutions, rather than gray infrastructure, are gaining increasing recognition for their potential to provide more sustainable and more affordable long-term adaptation for floods and climate change, while delivering better water quality outcomes."
One of those nature-based solutions she's been impressed with: living reefs.
She writes that she's been able to visit many M'ori communities along New Zealand's coast, "where many indigenous M'ori communities are on the front line of the climate crisis," and see first-hand how they've... Read the Entire ArticleSelected Grant News Headlines
"We have arrived at a new age in climate history, and it is not a moment too soon," writes Matthew Yglesias at Vox.
He's referring to what he calls the "Age of Adoption," a time he says has...more
An "unexpected and substantial legacy gift" has left Canada's University of Victoria $2.5 million to fund two graduate student awards and $500,000 in research grants for post-doctoral...more
India needs to get its act together on climate change if it wants to avoid the worst effects of global warming, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund.
The report warns that...more
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week, and Oxfam released a report on the state of the world's richest people.
Here's what you need to know: The...more
One of the biggest carbon traders in the world is teaming up with one of the biggest tree-huggers to create what the New York Times calls "one of the biggest carbon markets in history."
The...more
Aya Morris spent six months in New York City as a Fulbright New Zealand science and innovation graduate student, but she's now back home in New Zealand and ready to share some of her...more
Foundation: Moore Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations Foundation, Open Society Foundations
"We are at a tipping point in our efforts to put the planet back on track to meet our climate ambitions," Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, says.
"To reach the speed...more
Foundation: Moore Foundation, Open Society Foundations
"To reach the speed and scale required to heal the Earth's systems, we need to unlock not only private capital and government funds, but also the philanthropy sector as a truly catalytic force to...more
Greenhouse gas emissions rose slightly in the US in 2022, going up by 1.3% from the year prior, according to a report from Rhodium Group.
While the data is only preliminary, this uptick in...more
Jeff Bezos is putting his money where his mouth is, with a $10 billion donation to help fight climate change.
The Amazon founder's Bezos Earth Fund will provide grants of up to $1 million per...more
The Charities Aid Foundation has set up a scheme, called the Social Enterprise Assist, that will render interest-free loans of up to £10,000 each to help social enterprise start-ups.