America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast : Empowering Youth for Nature-Based Flood Management: World Wildlife Fund’s Flood Green Guide Youth Champions Program

“In episode 194 of America Adapts, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) returns to continue the ‘Flood Green Guide’ series focused on nature based approaches to flood risk management. This is a follow up to the episodes from 2018 published shortly after the release of their “Natural and Nature Based Flood Management: A Green Guide, better known…

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Morrocco Earthquake Humanitarian Response Key Environmental Considerations Overview

This Overview provides a summary of guidance on environmental issues to be considered inassessing, planning and delivering assistance following the September 2023 earthquake inMorrocco. The Overview provides summary sector-based guidance on disaster-related environmentalissues. In line with Sphere Standards, structured rapid assessments should be used toidentify relief-related environmental issues to be included in the humanitarian responseefforts.…

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Improving fishing safety and climate resilience in Madagascar

Thanks to Toky Sylvestre and his NGO Aquatic Service, a groundbreaking early warning system in Madagascar has dramatically reduced fishing deaths from severe wind events. WWF, with support from USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs and the Bezos Earth Fund, is helping expand the program to other fishing communities across the island, and helping them adapt…

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Filling the knowledge gap between theory and practice

OVERVIEW Flood Green Approaches in Practice (Flood GAP) is an effort led by the WWF Environment and Disaster Management Program to crowdsource information on how and where natural and nature-based water management methods are being used around the world. We recognize that nature-based approaches may have multiple functions.  We are particularly interested in emerging better…

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