Best Alliance for Global Water Adaptation Podcasts (2024)

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COP26 Reflections: Putting the Climate Conference into Context 37:25

3y ago37:25

37:25

As the dust settles from COP26, we take one last look back at the recent global climate conference that was held in Glasgow, Scotland in early November. Spanning two weeks and including hundreds of official events on top of high-level negotiations, it’s not easy to digest all that took place. What were the major topics covered? What was achieved? A…

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The Adaptation Academy: Classrooms for Catalyzing Climate Action 23:43

3y ago23:43

23:43

As climate change continues to dominate the current headlines thanks to COP26, we at ClimateReady wanted to take a look into the essential adaptation work that takes place between the annual conferences. Countries regularly develop commitments and implement programs to build climate resilience. Often, the development and shaping of country-level ac…

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From Cairo to Costa Rica: Placing Water at the Heart of National Climate Commitments 23:00

3y ago23:00

23:00

As world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, it is clear that countries face serious strategic choices in how they address mitigation and build adaptation and resilience. Often undervalued in this dialogue is the critical role of water for successful climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. But some countries are beginning to demonstrate …

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Countdown to COP: A Primer on This Year’s UN Climate Conference 24:20

3y ago24:20

24:20

Delayed for a full year due to the pandemic, the next major climate conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins later this month. Leaders from governments, civil society, and the private sector will converge in Glasgow and virtually to determine the next major steps to address the climate crisis. Can Glasgow deliver …

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COP26 Miniseries Teaser 1:08

3y ago1:08

1:08

ClimateReady is coming back with a four-part miniseries focused around the UN’s climate change conference, or COP26, starting at the end of October, where world leaders will gather in Glasgow and virtually to try and deliver on the promise of the Paris Agreement. In this special ClimateReady miniseries, we'll try to put things into context around C…

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Coping with Climate: Climate Grief and Adaptation 35:44

4y ago35:44

35:44

Regardless of whether or not you realize it, the climate crisis may be taking a toll on your mental well-being. Combine that with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturns, and social distancing measures, and it’s easy to see that mental health may be more important now than ever. But for these pervasive problems with no simple solutions, h…

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Old Solutions, New Problems: Indigenous Adaptation in Peru 28:54

4+ y ago28:54

28:54

Modern hydrology and engineering have solved some tremendous problems, allowing societies to expand and thrive in regions once considered too difficult to inhabit. With more people, more complicated economies, and more variability and extremes from climate impacts, engineering our way out of water challenges seems harder, more expensive, and less r…

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Sparking Change: What We Can Learn from Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires 39:31

4+ y ago39:31

39:31

With our daily lives inundated with news and anxiety around the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, it’s easy to forget another major story from just a few months ago. The Australian bushfire season of 2019-2020 has garnered global attention. People all around the world were shocked by stories of massive wildlife loss, charred landscapes, destroyed homes…

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Utilities of the Future, Today: How Public Utilities are Pioneering Climate-Smart Infrastructure 28:02

4+ y ago28:02

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We count on public utilities to provide services integral to everyday life. When we turn on the tap or flip a light switch, the assumption is that water will run and rooms will light up. But as the climate changes and cities continue to grow at a breakneck pace, what can utilities do to continue to provide these essential services? Is there a way t…

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Picking Your Climate Battles: When Is Managed Retreat the Best Option? 32:52

4+ y ago32:52

32:52

What happens when climate change renders our homes and communities uninhabitable? Can we maintain our deep place-based connections from afar? As climate change and sea level rise threaten coastal communities, we’re forced to grapple with the fact that not all places will be livable in the not-so-distant future. Following extreme weather events, con…

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Lessons from Chiloé, Chile: Transforming Natural Resource Governance Amid Environmental Change 27:53

5y ago27:53

27:53

Environmental change is not occurring in isolation, especially for communities and groups who may live close to and depend very directly on local ecosystems for their livelihoods and economic wellbeing. Climate change in most places is occurring in conjunction with cultural shifts, political reorganization, and globalizing economic impacts. While e…

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Rewriting History: From Bad Math to Reasons for Optimism on the Colorado River 26:49

5y ago26:49

26:49

The story of water management in the Western United States is epitomized by the Colorado River. Water managers in the early twentieth century set up structures and policies that would have implications for tens of millions of users across multiple states and countries — and all based upon faulty math. How have the systems and infrastructure along t…

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Live from COP25: Quenching the Thirst of Climate Adaptation 22:32

5y ago22:32

22:32

This special episode of ClimateReady was taped live at the ongoing UNFCCC COP25 in Madrid, Spain. Ingrid and a special co-host, the Executive Director of AGWA, have a conversation with colleagues from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). The four of them talk about the integral role of water in climate change solutions and actions a…

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Urban Adaptation: The City Water Resilience Approach 34:24

5y ago34:24

34:24

As cities continue to grow, increasing demands are being placed on urban water systems. Climate change and other unprecedented stressors will exacerbate the challenges related to cities' climate security in the decades to come. How can cities learn to build resilience, and do so in an equitable manner involving a wide range of stakeholders?For this…

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AI for Adaptation: Addressing Climate Challenges with Data Science 27:23

5y ago27:23

27:23

Climate change is the preeminent problem of the 21st century. Why not address it with 21st century solutions? While still in development, advances in data science — specifically around big data and AI — offer new and valuable tools for climate adaptation. How is this being deployed and who is leading the charge?In the Season 3 premiere of ClimateRe…

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Special Episode - Postcards From The Future 43:32

5+ y ago43:32

43:32

In this special episode of ClimateReady, we take a look back at last season’s “Postcards from the Future.” In these segments, we ask what the world may look like in the face of a changing climate. Guests offer up a range of possibilities, each providing a different take on the problems and — more importantly — the solutions we as a society can take…

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What the Heck Is Resilience? Moving Words into Practice 31:09

6y ago31:09

31:09

Sustainable development has been the guiding principle for meeting today’s needs without compromising the future of our planet. But what happens when the pace of change outpaces sustainable development practices? And how can we adequately plan for development when the future is increasingly uncertain?Often we use the term “resilience” in the contex…

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Microscopes for Microphones: Bringing Science into Adaptation Policy 31:57

6y ago31:57

31:57

Each year climate negotiators gather for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, or COP, to discuss how to address climate change. But how does science inform climate policy? Is climate policy actually based in science? Should technical professionals become involved in climate policy? If so, how?In this epi…

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What Would Hammurabi Do? Adaptive Governance and Climate Change 31:20

6y ago31:20

31:20

Civilizations have always depended on water. It’s no surprise, then, that laws pertaining to water and water governance have been around for thousands of years. All of that experience shows how difficult it is to govern water well. Climate change compounds these challenges.In this episode of ClimateReady, we look at multiple scales of water law thr…

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A High Probability of Uncertainty: How Do We Plan with Unknowns? 33:54

6y ago33:54

33:54

Nobody has data from the future - it hasn’t happened yet. But for centuries we’ve assumed that the past can predict the future. What if it can’t anymore? Will engineers and planners become consumed by inaction and climate uncertainty?Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) is a new five-step water resources planning framework that helps add…

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Fight or Flight: Coastal Community Adaptation 29:36

6y ago29:36

29:36

In 2017 nearly 10 percent of U.S. citizens were affected by major disasters. Hurricane Harvey that year was estimated to have resulted in more than $120 billion alone to southeastern Texas. After a tradition of coastal management that paved over wetlands, channelized floodplains, and pushed poor communities into low-lying areas, many coastal commun…

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Ensuring Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions to Reducing Risk 30:13

6y ago30:13

30:13

Infrastructure or ecosystems? Nature or economic development? Historically, those have been the tensions expressed about investing how we innovate, grow economies, reduce the impact of disasters, and alleviate poverty relative to preserving natural systems and ecological integrity.Climate adaptation has shifted the terms of this long-standing debat…

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“C” is for Climate Change: Lessons About Climate Change Education 34:30

6y ago34:30

34:30

For most students, climate change is a topic they’ve heard about — maybe a topic they really care about. While nearly every discipline is affected in some way by climate change, the subject is often relegated to the natural sciences. How can we make sure that the next generation of professionals — and global citizens — can think critically about im…

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Adapting funding to fund adaptation: Tales from Manila 26:09

6y ago26:09

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How can we know if a climate adaptation project will be effective and useful? Unlike mitigation and meeting emission reduction targets, adaptation measures are often open to interpretation. Yet institutions funding these efforts are expected to use standard evaluation criteria to distinguish between options and maximize impact and return on investm…

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Go with the Flow: Managed Rivers, Unmanaged Climate 33:44

6y ago33:44

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Freshwater ecosystems are in trouble. For centuries -- and until very recently -- rivers and ecosystems were always managed using history as a reference point. As we move into an era of uncertainty surrounding climate and hydrology, how should we think about ecosystem management in the future? In this episode of ClimateReady, we meet with Dr. LeRoy…

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Alliance For Global Water Adaptation Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The ClimateReady Podcast: Adapting to Climate Change & Uncertainty

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation

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COP26 Reflections: Putting the Climate Conference into Context 37:25

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The Adaptation Academy: Classrooms for Catalyzing Climate Action 23:43

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From Cairo to Costa Rica: Placing Water at the Heart of National Climate Commitments 23:00

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Countdown to COP: A Primer on This Year’s UN Climate Conference 24:20

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COP26 Miniseries Teaser 1:08

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Coping with Climate: Climate Grief and Adaptation 35:44

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Old Solutions, New Problems: Indigenous Adaptation in Peru 28:54

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Sparking Change: What We Can Learn from Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires 39:31

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Utilities of the Future, Today: How Public Utilities are Pioneering Climate-Smart Infrastructure 28:02

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Picking Your Climate Battles: When Is Managed Retreat the Best Option? 32:52

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Lessons from Chiloé, Chile: Transforming Natural Resource Governance Amid Environmental Change 27:53

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Rewriting History: From Bad Math to Reasons for Optimism on the Colorado River 26:49

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Live from COP25: Quenching the Thirst of Climate Adaptation 22:32

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Urban Adaptation: The City Water Resilience Approach 34:24

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AI for Adaptation: Addressing Climate Challenges with Data Science 27:23

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Special Episode - Postcards From The Future 43:32

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What the Heck Is Resilience? Moving Words into Practice 31:09

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Microscopes for Microphones: Bringing Science into Adaptation Policy 31:57

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What Would Hammurabi Do? Adaptive Governance and Climate Change 31:20

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A High Probability of Uncertainty: How Do We Plan with Unknowns? 33:54

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Fight or Flight: Coastal Community Adaptation 29:36

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Ensuring Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions to Reducing Risk 30:13

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“C” is for Climate Change: Lessons About Climate Change Education 34:30

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Adapting funding to fund adaptation: Tales from Manila 26:09

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Go with the Flow: Managed Rivers, Unmanaged Climate 33:44

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