The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)  is scaling up its efforts to build resilience to natural disasters and climate change in Nepal via DFID’s Nepal Resilience Portfolio - DFID has gone out to tender with contracts for two major new programmes worth an estimated £7 million.

A new report by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is warning that the majority of new local plans in England are failing to cut carbon emissions and to plan for the scale of severe weather predicted over future years.

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the World Bank to develop technical guidelines to improve climate resilience for the hydropower and dams development community.

A a new report by the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is warning that without significant investment to improve the resilience of cities around the world, climate change may push up to 77 million more urban residents into poverty by 2030.

EU ministers have approved the ratification of the Paris Agreement by the European Union at an extraordinary meeting of the Environment Council in Brussels.

A new report by the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says that while steps are being taken to prepare for climate change, a lack of evidence is making it difficult to judge whether Scotland’s vulnerability to climate impacts is increasing, remaining constant, or decreasing.

The World Bank has launched an innovation challenge to develop big data solutions to strengthen climate change resilience, including global water issues.

New research from Warwick Business School has shown that models used by economists to calculate the effects of climate change policies can produce polar opposite recommendations.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), World Resources Institute (WRI), U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and a network of partners have launched the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) to help communities, companies and investors use data to improve climate resilience planning.

The UK is facing a significant and growing risk of severe drought impacts, according to the first study to look at the long-term resilience of public water supply published by Water UK, which represents all the UK water companies.