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Roundup in Resilience: February 20, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: February 20, 2026

A new global standard, ISO 14092, launched to offer a common playbook for climate adaptation, São Paulo found itself in a climate paradox of near‐record low reservoirs and lethal flash floods, the EU’s scientific advisers urged Brussels to plan for a 3.3°C world, the Green Climate Fund approved one of the largest adaptation packages yet for glacier‐dependent regions, and climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025.

News

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Roundup in Resilience: February 13, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: February 13, 2026

Analysis identified more than 900 adaptation‐relevant laws and policies across 35 countries, South African cities are being forced to abandon 1‐in‐100 year floodlines as storms intensify, heatwaves in Australia are pushing flying foxes towards extinction, Fiji launched a fund to turn displacement risk into community‐designed projects, and Singapore is re‐weighting toward climate adaptation as a national survival and competitiveness strategy.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: January 30, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 30, 2026

Australian heat waves became five times more likely due to global emissions, North Atlantic whales adapt to climate change through diet shifts and resource partitioning, climate change threatens 50% of global drinking water via groundwater contamination, England allocated £30 million for coastal adaptation pilots, and Kyrgyzstan's FAO-supported ecosystem restoration targets 6,000 hectares by 2030.

Technology

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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 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: 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: 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

+5

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