WRR Special Reports

In addition to sharing the important adaptation news of others, the World Resources Report has commissioned articles on climate extremes and undertaken interviews with experts. You can find this work below:

Pakistan
Pakistan’s Great Deluge: Rebuilding for Climate Resilience
by Saman Ikram (bio)
The author describes her frontline experiences in Pakistan during and after the 2010 floods, and discusses implications for the future rebuilding of Pakistan.





Video: Frances Seymour on Climate Change
Frances Seymour, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), talks about climate change, adaptation and the importance of forest ecosystems.




Video: Climate Change Adaptation in the Mekong Delta
Philip Angell of the World Resources Report narrates this short video on one of the ways that Vietnam is preparing for the effects of climate change in the Mekong Delta.




Five myths about extreme weather
Manish Bapna and Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute describe the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in this piece, originally published in the Washington Post.





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