Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation

National Adaptation Forum with Lara Hansen and Amber Pairis

Content Type: Events You are invited to be a part of the 1st National Adaptation Forum (NAF): Action today for a better tomorrow. Please join us as we kick-off the inaugural convening of adaptation practitioners and experts from around the country focused on moving from adaptation planning to adaptation action.Goals of the NAF:Provide a professional development opportunity for the adaptation inclined.Contribute to...

Climate Adaptation Help Panel

Content Type: Events Are you a conservation practitioner or resource manager worried about climate change but not sure what to do about it? Join a discussion with a panel of adaptation practitioners and get the help you need. Be the first on your block to learn what we already know about how the climate is changing and what to expect.Get insider tips on what others are doing to reduce their vulnerability and...

Sagarin funded to focus on climate change impacts to DOD installations

Content Type: News - Fellows The climate change awardees are Rafe Sagarin, an assistant research scientist at the Institute of the Environment, and Christopher Castro, an assistant professor of atmospheric sciences. They captured two of the four grants awarded nationally for climate change impacts under DOD's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program."This puts us at the ground floor of DOD's efforts to do...

Rafe Sagarin profiled in Stanford Magazine article "Tide Pools & Terrorists"

Content Type: News - Fellows Nearly two decades after coming to the Hopkins Marine Station as an undergraduate in earth systems, Raphael D. Sagarin was again hunched over a tide pool identifying its briny inhabitants. His mentor, emeritus lecturer Chuck Baxter, stood on a nearby outcropping and called out helpful advice.It was a drippy coastal morning, with fog heavy enough to dampen paper and a raucous crowd of gulls...

Video of impassioned speech in Durban by one of Doreen Stabinsky's students goes viral

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Doreen Stabinsky on controversial World Bank-backed "climate-smart" agriculture approach

Content Type: News - Fellows “Soil carbon offsets will promote a spate of African land grabs and put farmers under the control of fickle carbon markets,” said Teresa Anderson of the UK-based Gaia Foundation, an NGO that promotes indigenous farming, speaking in Durban. “The [World] Bank’s agenda is more money for the bank and for carbon project developers, not development,” said Doreen Stabinsky of the Minneapolis-based...

Doreen Stabinsky explains what comes after Durban for agriculture and adaptation

Content Type: News - Fellows There is little doubt that agriculture is both affected by and directly affects climate change. Exactly how to address agriculture within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC), however, is not easy to answer. Before Durban, negotiating text had been circulating since before the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, virtually unchanged for two years.How could agriculture be so...

Doreen Stabinsky publishes report on near-term effects of climate change on African food production

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Focus on Doreen Stabinsky and her work with IATP in Durban

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