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Adapting to a drier world in a changing climate: Launch of the OECD Global Drought Outlook
Fuelled by climate change, extreme droughts are becoming more frequent, placing mounting pressure on communities, ecosystems and economies. As impacts intensify across regions and sectors, including in OECD countries, the urgency to build stronger drought resilience has never been greater. How is climate change intensifying the risks and impacts of droughts? What do recent drought episodes reveal about the socio-economic and environmental costs of inaction?
Rediscover our top 5 blogs of 2023
Find out what our readers enjoyed the most in 2023. Our top 5 blogs discuss a range of issues from financing water to the evolution of climate policies, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, the affect of climate change on careers, and building resilience to droughts.
How are European cities addressing climate-change induced water scarcity?
By Sophie Lavaud, Simon Touboul and Catherine Gamper, OECD Environment Directorate Just as we thought we could get out of an unprecedented global drought that marked the year of 2022, the world continues to face a ferociously dry summer. Spain is struggling with the impacts of never-ending drought conditions: since 30 months droughts have led to unprecedented water restrictions, conserving the limited stock of water reserves only for households and selected agricultural and industrial uses.
Rising up to build resilience to droughts in a changing climate
By Catherine Gamper, Sophie Lavaud and Agnes Szuda, OECD Environment Directorate 17 June marks the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, a year after unprecedented droughts plagued regions across the world.
Wildfires in Europe: towards a “new normal”?
This blog was originally posted on 22 July 2022 on the OECD Environment Linkedin page. by Catherine Desiree Gamper, Ágnes Szuda and Giulia Bonazzi, OECD Environment Directorate Amidst record-breaking temperatures, wildfires have been raging across Europe. France’s Gironde region has already seen 19,000 hectares of forest destroyed and 34,000 people evacuated from their homes and holiday resorts.
Changing climate, changing coasts: Why resilience matters
By Marta Arbinolo and Catherine Gamper, OECD Environment Directorate Coastal zones have always been one of the most attractive settlement areas because of their access to the ocean, their richness in natural resources, and the high quality of life they offer. As our new policy paper shows, today coastal zones are home to 2.4 billion people, or 40% of the world’s population, with a density three times higher than the global average.
Climate change mitigation and adaptation: managing two sides of the same coin
By Catherine Gamper and Mikaela Rambali, OECD Environment Directorate Image credit: Shutterstock / ValentinaKru Even if global average temperature increases are limited to below 2°C, there will still be serious climate impacts. Since pre-industrial times, we have witnessed a global average temperature increase of 1.1°C, while ocean acidity has increased by 26%. An increasing number of destructive weather-related extreme events are taking place.
2021: Adaptation comes to the fore
By Catherine Gamper and Nicolina Lamhauge, OECD Environment Directorate We entered 2021, full of hope that the approval of COVID-19 vaccines would bring some respite from the crisis brought about by the pandemic. With manufacturing delays, unequal access and delays in the roll-out of many vaccination plans it is becoming clear that the virus will continue to claim lives and severely affect livelihoods in the foreseeable future.
Harnessing nature to tackle the climate emergency
Posted on January 22, 2021 by OECD Environment Focus 1 Comment By Mikaela Rambali and Catherine Gamper, OECD Environment Directorate Image credit: Ulrike Stein / Shutterstock While the term “nature-based solutions” may have been coined relatively recently, communities worked with nature’s strengths to enhance societal resilience long before modern civilisation. For example, the Aztecs developed an agro‐hydrological system, known as the Chinampas, to build resilience against drought.
burkina faso gdp growth
About 1,070,000 results6.5% annual change (2013) Burkina Faso, GDP growth rate data.worldbank.org/country/burkina-fasoBy: Michael Gilligan - New York University, Radu Ban - Gates Foundation, Catherine Gamper - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Burkina_FasoCurrent GDP per capita of Burkina Faso grew 13% in the Sixties reaching a peak growth of 237% in the Seventies.www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/countries/west.../burkina-faso/Burkina...
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