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Roundup in Resilience: January 16, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 16, 2026

UK actuaries warned that hidden aerosol cooling offsets 0.5°C of warming masking true climate sensitivity, the Winter Olympics host pool shrinks precipitously by the 2050s, US incomes have contracted 12% since 2000 due to nationwide climate disruptions, European adaptation investments face a steep funding shortfall, and Chinese communities increasingly self-organise climate adaptation through grassroots knowledge-sharing.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: January 9, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 9, 2026

Analysis indicates 53% of Alpine ski resorts face very high snow-risk under 2°C warming, pollen allergy patterns expose how ideology mediates climate perception, the UK Department for Transport’s climate adaptation strategy acknowledges that critical infrastructure face flood risk, researchers propose ‘compounded resilience’ combining climate adaptation with emissions reductions in local governance, and UK winter rates of wildflower bloom is 30x normal signalling ecosystem phenology shifts.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: January 2, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 2, 2026

Earth breached 1.5°C warming on a three-year rolling basis, the UN reframed climate change as a human rights crisis, 2025 emerged as the year of devastating floods, Portugal's wine sector recorded a 14% harvest collapse due to unprecedented drought, and Bhutan exposed critical governance and infrastructure failures threatening water security.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: December 26, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 26, 2025

Arctic reindeer face 80% population declines by 2100, research reveals adaptation's most cost-effective tools are surprisingly simple, over half the world's coastal settlements have retreated inland over three decades, polar bears exhibit real-time genetic evolution in response to ice loss, and US ski seasons risk losing 14–60 days by 2050.

Technology

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Roundup in Resilience: December 19, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 19, 2025

GEF funds mobilised $52 million across coastal restoration and smallholder livelihoods, Asia faces a $4 trillion water infrastructure gap, some of Africa's forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source, India confronts over $200 billion annual adaptation costs at 2°C warming, and Canadian farmers demonstrate that incremental agronomic investments can yield record harvests despite drought and floods.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: December 12, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 12, 2025

Qatar and Ghana launched their National Adaptation Plans, Klarna mobilised AI for community-led resilience across six high-impact projects, China confronts a $226 billion annual adaptation funding shortfall, and Yale researchers introduced ‘tethered resilience’—a framework reframing climate migration beyond move or stay binaries.

Technology

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What Exactly are the 59 Belém Adaptation Indicators? A Categorised List and Analysis of All Indicators

What Exactly are the 59 Belém Adaptation Indicators? A Categorised List and Analysis of All Indicators

Documenting the Belém Adaptation Indicators’ journey from 5,339 to 59 metrics. The long-awaited operational tool for the Global Goal on Adaptation, with the initial long list of thousands now refined into a concise group of voluntary metrics, provides the first roadmap for measuring the world’s collective resilience.

Analysis

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Roundup in Resilience: December 5, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 5, 2025

Exploring whether COP30’s call to triple climate finance by 2035 can be implemented, AI guides Indian farmers through monsoon chaos, Asia’s cities need $1.7 trillion annually for climate adaptation, agroforestry shows promise for West African cocoa under specific conditions, and genomic sequencing reveals evolutionary resilience strategies in butterflies and moths.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: November 28, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 28, 2025

Malaria mosquitoes expand habitats across Africa, Bangladesh's coastal households struggle, Albania commits €8.46 billion to climate adaptation through 2036, UAE research reveals stormy days set to double and Vietnam tallies $3 billion in storm losses, exposing critical adaptation gaps.

Investment

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Roundup in Resilience: November 21, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 21, 2025

COP30 negotiators haggled over 100 indicators to measure progress while starving frontline communities of resources, Canada committed CAD$263 million to IFAD's smallholder farmer adaptation, a landmark FAO-UNDP report on agrifood found that only 16% of measures in NAPs address climate impacts or vulnerable populations, and a call to triple adaptation finance commitments meets developed world barriers.

News

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Roundup in Resilience: November 14, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 14, 2025

COP30 in Belém crystallised adaptation's dual reality: adaptation philanthropy surged 120% to $870 million, Gates committed $1.4 billion for smallholder farmer adaptation, and a $300 million health-climate coalition was mobilised, However, African and Arab nations pushed back against adaptation indicators fearing unfair fiscal burdens, and while funding commitments surged the $284–365 billion annual adaptation gap persists.

Investment

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Roundup in Resilience: November 7, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 7, 2025

Pre-COP30 preparations crystallised around adaptation themes, adaptation market design flaws in the spotlight with blended finance stalled at $15.5 billion in 2024, Vietnam confronted a succession of storms reshaping its urban strategy, Fidelity Bank Ghana attempts to scale adaptation finance across the continent, and the Philippines showcased regional adaptation leadership.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: October 31, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 31, 2025

UNEP reported developing countries receive less than 10% of needed adaptation funds, heat‐related deaths hit 546,000 annually, the UN’s Guterres acknowledged humanity's failure to meet the 1.5°C target, elite athletes launched Adapt2Win urging governments to prioritise adaptation finance, an Indonesian naval officer linked climate change to terrorism and piracy, and attribution science confirmed Hurricane Melissa was made four times more likely by warming.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: October 24, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 24, 2025

Malaysia embedded adaptation into its climate bill after public pressure, UK experts warned three major cities face "unliveable" conditions, Adaptation Futures spotlighted Asia's dual role on the climate frontline and as a solution incubator, the UN Climate Chief declared a "serious need for speed" remains in adaptation, and climate change drove India's worse than average seasonal monsoon.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: October 17, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 17, 2025

India pushed for an "adaptation COP" in Brazil, Christchurch hosted the world's largest adaptation gathering ahead of COP30, Climate Fund Managers closed a landmark $1 billion adaptation infrastructure fund, scientists confirmed warm‐water coral reefs have passed their thermal tipping point, the Loss and Damage Fund will launch its first call for proposals at COP30, and the UK's climate advisors urged preparing infrastructure for 2°C.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: October 10, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 10, 2025

Germany committed record climate finance with greater leverage for adaptation, global youth gather for Climate Adaptation Action Day, the UK and Malaysia deepen cooperation on resilience, biologists warn of “ecological traps” as seasonal cues misfire, and New Zealand funds an implementation-first research programme for adaptation.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: October 3, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 3, 2025

A new report on adaptation finance for Small Island Developing States, research revealed corals may be adapting to ocean acidification, the Asian Development Bank approved $3.5 billion in adaptation investment, adaptation experts debate how to measure climate resilience progress, the European Investment Bank doubled adaptation finance, and Ghana's climate minister pushes for debt relief to enable locally-led adaptation.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: September 26, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 26, 2025

Nordic governments launched a $100 million adaptation fund for Africa, Japanese scientists unveiled a breakthrough in flood prediction, Pakistan's Prime Minister called for adequate climate adaptation finance, researchers discovered that dragonflies face extinction, and a study quantified the benefits of proactive climate preparation.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: September 19, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 19, 2025

The World Economic Forum quantified the climate's economic toll, business leaders made the case for revolutionising private adaptation finance, the UN warned of an increasingly erratic global water cycle, Brazil confronts a surge in mosquito-borne disease, and military spending starves climate adaptation funding.

News

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Roundup in Resilience: September 12, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 12, 2025

A UN report showcased governance innovations in climate adaptation, London's Tube struggles to adapt to record summer heat, the Africa Climate Summit pushes for transformative adaptation finance, scientists reveal climate's troubling link to increased sugar consumption, and the 2026 World Cup faces extreme heat conditions.

Technology

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Roundup in Resilience: September 5, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 5, 2025

East Asia sweltered through record-breaking summer heat, scientists warned of an Atlantic current collapse, the mental health toll of environmental grief, Latin American children face climate-driven poverty, and Uganda's coffee farmers pioneer adaptation strategies.

Technology

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Roundup in Resilience: August 29, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: August 29, 2025

Brazil secured Amazonian support for a $125 billion forest fund, World Water Week put water at the heart of the climate fight, attribution science showed climate change made Mediterranean wildfires 10 times more likely, warming European waters force a great fish migration, and a 40-year study revealed South American forests can't keep up with warming.

News

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Week in Review: August 15, 2025

Week in Review: August 15, 2025

Zambia hosts the UN's largest adaptation gathering as African youth demand direct climate finance, politically green German cities receive most of the country's adaptation funding, ASEAN wrestles with resilience through nature, and grassroots mapping tools to crowdsource climate resilience

Analysis

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Week in Review: August 8, 2025

Week in Review: August 8, 2025

The Africa Union talks climate resilience, a new adaptation philanthropic fund, research into the willingness to pay for climate action, the intersection of heat and labour productivity, the private sector call for clarity on financing resilience, and new weather records in Japan, Vietnam and Hong Kong

Resilience

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Week in Review: August 1, 2025

Week in Review: August 1, 2025

Europe and parts of the US swelter under another punishing heatwave, ecosystem restoration gets adaptation finance, and the WHO talk health and climate in the run up to COP30

News

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