Environment and ICTs
Community Based Adaptation Exchange CBA-X is a shared online resource designed to bring together and grow the CBA community. It provides a space for exchange of up-to-date and relevant information about community-based adaptation, including news, events, case studies, tools, policy resources, and videos. CBA-X has over 800 members as of September 2010. Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) is an innovative approach that focuses on enabling communities to enhance their own adaptive capacity, and em...
ConserveOnline is a “one-stop” online, public library, created and maintained by The Nature Conservancy in partnership with other conservation organizations. The library makes conservation tools, techniques, and experience available to a broad community of conservation practitioners. This site is intended to foster learning and collaboration, and provide information and support to anyone making conservation-related decisions, from the staff of conservation organizations to land ma...
Médiaterre is a French network of information on sustainable development, aiming to facilitate the dissemination of the international agenda for sustainable development in French. The aim of the project is to create an information and discussion platform for sustainable development that is accessible to the various groups concerned (States and public administrations, local governments and inte...
The main idea behind ESSE is a flexible, efficient and easy to use search engine for data mining in environmental data archives. The ESSE will act as a bridge between the questions the user needs to act of the environment and the data which describes it, allowing the user to query environmental data archives in human linguistic terms.
Climate Wizard With ClimateWizard you can: * view historic temperature and rainfall maps for anywhere in the world * view state-of-the-art future predictions of temperature and rainfall around the world * view and download climate change maps in a few easy steps. ClimateWizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the i...
Strengthening Climate Resilience (SCR) is a new DFID funded programme that aims to enhance the ability of governments and civil society organisations in developing countries to build the resilience of communities to disasters and climate change as part of their development work. In order to do this, the disaster risk management (DRM) community are being targeted as a starting point to encourage...
Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth’s climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models. To do this, the project asks volunteers around the world to give time on their computers, using BOINC software, which is also used by other projects, such as SETI. Climateprediction.net has harnessed more computing power and generated mo...
Polar View is an earth observation (EO) or satellite remote-sensing program, focused on both the Arctic and the Antarctic. It promotes the utilization of satellites for public good and in support of public policy in the areas of sustainable economic development, marine safety, and the environment. Polar View services are designed to address a myriad of polar concerns on environmental protection...
The Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) Network is a community of over 900 practitioners, stakeholders, researchers and policy-makers exchanging information on climate adaptation research and practice around the globe via the Networks email list. This space on Eldis Community acts as an archive for messages sent to the network via the email list and as a document store. Membership of the Network i...
Through Climate Witness, WWF connects with people around the world and provides them with an opportunity to share stories about how climate change impacts their lives here and now. This is a growing global community of people telling their climate change stories through words, videos, and photos. Beyond witnessing climate change impacts many Climate Witnesses demonstrate real action and set exa...
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