The ClimateReady Podcast: Adapting to Climate Change & Uncertainty
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
COP26 Reflections: Putting the Climate Conference into Context
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the dust settles from COP26, we take one last look back at the recent global climate conference that was held in Glasgow, Scotland in early Novembe...
The Adaptation Academy: Classrooms for Catalyzing Climate Action
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As climate change continues to dominate the current headlines thanks to COP26, we at ClimateReady wanted to take a look into the essential adaptation ...
From Cairo to Costa Rica: Placing Water at the Heart of National Climate Commitments
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, it is clear that countries face serious strategic choices in how they address mitigation and build adapt...
Countdown to COP: A Primer on This Year’s UN Climate Conference
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Delayed for a full year due to the pandemic, the next major climate conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins later ...
COP26 Miniseries Teaser
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ClimateReady is coming back with a four-part miniseries focused around the UN’s climate change conference, or COP26, starting at the end of October,...
Coping with Climate: Climate Grief and Adaptation
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Regardless of whether or not you realize it, the climate crisis may be taking a toll on your mental well-being. Combine that with the ongoing COVID-19...
Old Solutions, New Problems: Indigenous Adaptation in Peru
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Modern hydrology and engineering have solved some tremendous problems, allowing societies to expand and thrive in regions once considered too difficul...
Sparking Change: What We Can Learn from Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With our daily lives inundated with news and anxiety around the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, it’s easy to forget another major story from just a fe...
Utilities of the Future, Today: How Public Utilities are Pioneering Climate-Smart Infrastructure
08 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We count on public utilities to provide services integral to everyday life. When we turn on the tap or flip a light switch, the assumption is that wat...
Picking Your Climate Battles: When Is Managed Retreat the Best Option?
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when climate change renders our homes and communities uninhabitable? Can we maintain our deep place-based connections from afar? As clima...
Lessons from Chiloé, Chile: Transforming Natural Resource Governance Amid Environmental Change
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental change is not occurring in isolation, especially for communities and groups who may live close to and depend very directly on local ecos...
Rewriting History: From Bad Math to Reasons for Optimism on the Colorado River
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The story of water management in the Western United States is epitomized by the Colorado River. Water managers in the early twentieth century set up s...
Live from COP25: Quenching the Thirst of Climate Adaptation
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode of ClimateReady was taped live at the ongoing UNFCCC COP25 in Madrid, Spain. Ingrid and a special co-host, the Executive Director...
Urban Adaptation: The City Water Resilience Approach
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As cities continue to grow, increasing demands are being placed on urban water systems. Climate change and other unprecedented stressors will exacerba...
AI for Adaptation: Addressing Climate Challenges with Data Science
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is the preeminent problem of the 21st century. Why not address it with 21st century solutions? While still in development, advances in ...
Special Episode - Postcards From The Future
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of ClimateReady, we take a look back at last season’s “Postcards from the Future.” In these segments, we ask what the wo...
What the Heck Is Resilience? Moving Words into Practice
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainable development has been the guiding principle for meeting today’s needs without compromising the future of our planet. But what happens whe...
Microscopes for Microphones: Bringing Science into Adaptation Policy
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Each year climate negotiators gather for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, or COP, to discuss how to a...
What Would Hammurabi Do? Adaptive Governance and Climate Change
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Civilizations have always depended on water. It’s no surprise, then, that laws pertaining to water and water governance have been around for thousan...
A High Probability of Uncertainty: How Do We Plan with Unknowns?
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody has data from the future - it hasn’t happened yet. But for centuries we’ve assumed that the past can predict the future. What if it can’t...
Fight or Flight: Coastal Community Adaptation
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017 nearly 10 percent of U.S. citizens were affected by major disasters. Hurricane Harvey that year was estimated to have resulted in more than $1...
Ensuring Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions to Reducing Risk
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Infrastructure or ecosystems? Nature or economic development? Historically, those have been the tensions expressed about investing how we innovate, gr...
“C” is for Climate Change: Lessons About Climate Change Education
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For most students, climate change is a topic they’ve heard about — maybe a topic they really care about. While nearly every discipline is affected...
Adapting funding to fund adaptation: Tales from Manila
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can we know if a climate adaptation project will be effective and useful? Unlike mitigation and meeting emission reduction targets, adaptation mea...
Go with the Flow: Managed Rivers, Unmanaged Climate
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Freshwater ecosystems are in trouble. For centuries -- and until very recently -- rivers and ecosystems were always managed using history as a referen...
Women, Water, Wisdom: New Spaces in Climate Policy and Practice
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Pacific Ocean is the most sparsely populated region on earth, while the island nations and peoples are also among the most threatened by climate c...
Rivers to the Rescue! Understanding the Benefits of Ecosystems in Adaptation (Part 2)
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Can ecosystem services and biodiversity improve climate resilience? Water management has historically been viewed through a narrow, results-driven eng...
Rivers to the Rescue! Understanding the Benefits of Ecosystems in Adaptation (Part 1)
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Can ecosystem services and biodiversity improve climate resilience? Water management has historically been viewed through a narrow, results-driven eng...
Are We Tapped Out? How Urban Water Utilities Are Adapting to New Impacts
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Billions of people worldwide depend on municipal water utilities to deliver clean drinking water and treat their waste. There’s a reason that the wo...
New Approaches to Managing Risk: Climate Adaptation in Zambia
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015 a drought in Zambia led to failures at the Iolanda Water Treatment Plant, which serves Zambia’s capital and largest city. Changes in water a...
Designing & Planning for Resilience in Water Infrastructure
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Water infrastructure is expensive and long-lived. How do we design and plan for resilience if we can’t see what the future holds in terms of climate...
Climate Finance & Green Bonds
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ClimateReady Podcast we learn more about the critical role of climate finance, including the growing role of green bonds within...
Climate Change & Community-based Adaptation in the Himalayas
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ClimateReady Podcast we focus on some tangible on-the-ground efforts in climate adaptation. We interview Ms. Neera Shrestha Pra...
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the ClimateReady Podcast focuses on the uncertainty so often found in the decision making processes related to water management. Clima...
COP23 Water & Climate Policy Primer
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ClimateReady Podcast we take our listeners into the world of climate-water policy in the lead up to COP23 in Bonn (Nov. 6-17). ...
Climate Adaptation Crash Course
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural episode of the ClimateReady Podcast, we interview Doug Parsons, host of the America Adapts Podcast (www.americaadapts.org). We discus...