Proposes concrete and short-term options for financing climate change adaptation in developing countries.

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Makes the connection between efforts to ensure global food security and climate change adaptation.

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While the U.S. development agenda emphasizes increasing local food production in developing countries, the trade agenda pushes in the other direction, aiming to double U.S. exports—including those of agricultural goods—in the next five years. Just as developing countries work to rebuild local agricultural systems weakened by decades of cuts in agricultural extension services, credit and other public services, they are facing increasing pressure to open their markets to U.S. goods, which could result in floods of cheap imports that undermine local food production.

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Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between these two groups in future emergencies. 

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The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition (PDF), show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward.

A panel of scientists recently unveiled new research funded by NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) at the 177th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. These three studies demonstrate how climate change could increase human-health risks originating from ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems.

Includes audio interviews with researchers.