The lastest update to the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative's (ND-GAIN) Country Index is now live. The ND-GAIN team will release a second Country Index update in late Fall, which includes the integration of B-Ready data for the Economic Readiness indicator.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
Jakarta, Indonesia, faces a paradox. Its economy and population are soaring, but the city itself is sinking. Excessive groundwater use is causing land subsidence of up to ten inches annually. Experts warn that by 2050, the subsidence, combined with rising sea levels and extreme weather, could leave a third of the city underwater. In response, the Indonesian government is weighing plans to relocate the capital at an estimated cost of $35 billion.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative | News
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Arun Agrawal, a renowned scholar of environmental politics and sustainable development, will join the University of Notre Dame on Jan. 1, 2025, as the inaugural director of the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative, a key priority in the University’s strategic framework.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative | News
Weather-related disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and droughts displace about three times as many people as conflicts and violence do worldwide. From 2008 to 2018, around 263 million people were forced by extreme weather events to move within their own countries’ borders, a number that is expected to rise as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters. A new study by University of Notre Dame researcher Sisi Meng shows that environmental ...| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative | News
A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing interstate air pollution further complicates efforts to reduce emissions and adds to an already disproportionate burden on “downwind” states, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
Palau, which lies in the western Pacific, is one of several island countries added this year to ND-GAIN| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
Images of catastrophic flooding filled social media in October as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia dropped more than 6 inches of rain on New York City in less than 24 hours, inundating streets, subway tunnels and basement apartments across the city.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
Later this month, more than 70,000 participants will attend the UN climate summit in Dubai. In the months leading up to the summit, known as COP28, Mohammed Farrae, a Master of Global Affairs graduate (2022) from the Keough School of Global Affairs and former ND-GAIN Research Associate, has been preparing to convene key groups that will showcase climate-smart strategies for agricultural food systems. This effort is critical because agriculture contributes to climate change while simultaneousl...| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
Climate change research has typically focused on the energy sector and the need to adopt cleaner technologies to power homes, cars and factories. But a growing awareness of how our food systems contribute to global warming has brought increasing numbers of agriculture experts to the discussion table.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
At the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), hosted this month by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), world leaders plan to “demonstrate a new era of implementation by turning their commitments under the Paris Agreement into action” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve global adaptation and mitigation efforts through enhanced funding.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
The most climate-prepared countries in the world are losing ground, according to the latest update of the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index. Updated annually, ND-GAIN’s Country Index quantifies the climate vulnerability and readiness of more than 180 countries by aggregating 45 core indicators over 20 years.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
This summer, a team of undergraduate researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Dublin City University (DCU) joined together to analyze a subwatershed in the St. Joseph River Basin to better understand barriers and opportunities to climate adaptation in the region.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
After the success of the Ireland Climate Inventory project, a virtual summer 2021 initiative, the Dublin Global Gateway (DGG) is delighted to announce the launch of a new research collaboration between the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI) and the Dublin City University Climate and Environmental Change Programme (DCU-BCES).| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
This summer, eight undergraduate students from Dublin City University (DCU) and the University of Notre Dame will partner for a new research exchange program focused on water policy and climate adaptation. | Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
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Even the most prepared countries need to focus more on climate change, according to the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index. The annual study—which measures how 181 countries compare on vulnerability to climate impacts and readiness to successfully implement adaptation solutions—shows that top-ranked nations such as Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and Sweden have seen declining scores in the last five years.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change. Their fifth assessment report led to the Paris Agreement in 2015 and, shortly after, a special report on the danger of global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Nobel Prize-winning team stressed that mitigating global warming “would make it markedly easier to achieve many aspects of sustainable development, with greate...| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame will host its fourth annual research symposium on Thursday, June 3, and Friday, June 4, 2021, from 1 to 5 p.m. (ET) both days. This event is free and open to the general public.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
The City of Santa Ana, California is planning to vote on a resolution declaring a climate and public health emergency. The resolution asks that the city council make a commitment to oppose fossil fuel expansion, to accelerate the use of clean energy, to support policies that will reduce lead contamination, and more.| Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
The annual update to the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index shows sources for some vulnerability indicators have changed, including food dependency and urban concentration. | Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative