Climate Adaptation
Cities Aren’t Making Climate Investments Where They Matter Most
From Singapore to Rio Green Buildings Keep Tropical Tenants Cool
![relates to Facing Drought, Southern California Has More Water Than Ever](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iEoJ_GCSfMd0/v1/840x600.jpg)
Previous droughts motivated the greater Los Angeles region to build new storage and create lasting conservation habits. But vulnerabilities still remain.
![relates to Facing Drought, Southern California Has More Water Than Ever](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iEoJ_GCSfMd0/v1/840x600.jpg)
Increasingly shallow rivers in Argentina and Paraguay are making it harder to move soybeans and grains to market.
![Rosario is home to 78% of the country's theoretical oilseed processing capacity. In the 70 km of coastline from Arroyo Seco to Timbúes, with its epicenter in the city of Rosario, there are 29 port terminals, 19 of which dispatch grains, oils and by-products, 12 of which have their own processing factories. In addition, there are another 8 oil mills in the area, totaling 20 industries that demand beans to manufacture oil and flour, among other oilseed derivatives. Sunday, April 25, 2021. Photographer: Sebastián López Brach/Bloomberg.](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMaxdxsTMCYk/v1/197x131.jpg)
New research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows limiting global warming to 1.5°C may require growth to slow
![China Emissions](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iE.LtWAK8_iY/v1/197x131.jpg)
The trains will ply a regional line between Buxtehude, outside Hamburg, and the beach town of Cuxhaven
![Alstom SA Hydrogen Powered Train Assembly And Operations](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iy611F_OuGjU/v0/197x131.jpg)
Record temperatures, rising seas and wildfires picked up pace even as European economies stayed locked down.
![relates to Europe’s Changing Climate Viewed From Orbit Shows Rising Danger](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ijOhSAwPIp3Q/v0/197x131.jpg)
![relates to A Heat Camera Shows Where London Is Succeeding—and Failing—at Saving Power](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iSWbJqt0F5bw/v0/197x131.jpg)
The work of preparing for a hotter, more volatile future has already begun.
![relates to Cities Are Our Best Hope for Surviving Climate Change](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iKOY.5O1tKS8/v0/197x131.png)
Agriculture accounts for 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Industry giants and startups are setting up carbon credits as Biden's Green plan gains momentum.
![farming farmer florida](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iBPM77esH.4I/v0/197x131.jpg)
CarbonCure Technologies and CarbonBuilt Inc. took home the grand prize
![CarbonCure handout](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ixTqBcJjuBNU/v0/197x131.jpg)
If the history of humanity is the history of cities, then our future hangs on their fate.
![relates to Whatever Climate Change Does to the World, Cities Will Be Hit Hardest](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/irI6JcqeNuPw/v0/197x131.png)
A future with far more cities, and cities that are asked to do far more.
![relates to Kim Stanley Robinson on Cities as a Climate Survival Mechanism](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iAsaIYyykVgw/v0/197x131.jpg)
Livestock that produce less methane have joined trees, wind turbines and cleaner cookstoves as the basis for carbon offsets
![Mootral cow](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iNDwdns5OSHU/v0/197x131.jpg)
![Rafting In Futaleufu, Chile](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHbrP7otPGKU/v0/197x131.jpg)
![BRAZIL-ENVIRONMENT-DEFORESTATION](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iwtB4FhrPBvw/v1/197x131.jpg)
![HyFlyer](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHCWki6uC2lU/v1/197x131.jpg)
![Renewable diesel demand drives up prices](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iNRnq2yhWD_E/v2/pidjEfPlU1QWZop3vfGKsrX.ke8XuWirGYh1PKgEw44kE/197x131.png)
![Beijing Sees Orange as Sandstorm Brings Worst Air Since 2017](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifkn4eBhPkTw/v1/197x131.jpg)
![Housing Construction Sites Stay Open In Latest U.K. Lockdown](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iG0siRt673HU/v0/197x131.jpg)
![INDONESIA-VOLCANO](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iBg.nlLVGVEM/v1/197x131.jpg)
Automakers enjoy deeply embedded support from customers and have influence over government policy.
![relates to Germany’s Climate Obstacle: Its Love Affair With Combustion Cars](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVZ7j_ukmEh0/v1/197x131.jpg)
![Logging Operations As Government Says Amazon Deforestation Slowing](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iUNrzyytzpV8/v0/197x131.jpg)
![Garbage Pile-Up](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ipx7.MqZH_CI/v2/pidjEfPlU1QWZop3vfGKsrX.ke8XuWirGYh1PKgEw44kE/197x131.png)
![American fashion brand Ralph Lauren store and logo seen in](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ierpKZxZPRk0/v1/197x131.jpg)
![Housing Construction Sites Stay Open In Latest U.K. Lockdown](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iXntym5Hk3eU/v0/197x131.jpg)
![AUSTRALIA-WEATHER-FLOOD](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iQHPKKf_b8ao/v0/197x131.jpg)
A group of Austrian researchers developed a new index that calls for a change in economic thinking about climate adaptation.
![Mrs. Frank Frech [& Family]](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iX7QRzzQLY2g/v1/197x131.jpg)
![relates to Long Dormant Volcano Comes to Life in Southwestern Iceland](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5TmZ_Mv7_Ig/v1/197x131.jpg)
![Container Shipping at France's Second Largest Port](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i1lQ9FTxGA50/v0/197x131.jpg)
The South American nation shows how much countries and companies are relying on planting trees to absorb their pollution.
![relates to To Zero Out Emissions, Chile Must Rethink Its Forestry Industry](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iGtxeDXS7Jt4/v1/197x131.jpg)
The Lena, in Louisiana, was once a giant platform used to support oil wells. Now it’s a home for marine life like fish and coral. Is that a good thing?
![relates to How an Offshore Oil Rig Becomes an Artificial Reef](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i3AMtjIGv2Hw/v2/197x131.jpg)
![Australia Economy Set for Rapid Recovery as Virus Restrictions Eased Further](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20210516003649im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifrnTLt9.WxQ/v0/197x131.jpg)