Delta Alliance News Press Release: DeltaCompetition attracts innovative and diverse ideas for climate adaptation from students around the world The worldwide DeltaCompetition challenged students to formulate creative solutions for adapting the delta cities of the world to climate change impacts. The competition, run by Royal Haskoning, Delta Alliance and the City of Rotterdam, received 24 unique submissions from 11 countries on 5 continents. Winners will be announced at the beginning of September; three winning teams will receive prizes of USD 3,000 and an expenses-paid trip to Rotterdam to present their work at the Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference, 29 September – 1 October 2010 Delta Alliance Secretary, Wednesday 18 August 2010 | | Online Information Platform Deltas Delta Alliance, together with the World Estuary Alliance, has developed an online information platform for the worldwide sharing of delta related information: Delta-Zones.com. This platform will support the symbiosis of the many activities ongoing in delta regions, reducing unnecessary overlap in efforts. Delta Alliance Secretary, Wednesday 28 July 2010 | | Delta Alliance Newsletter (July 2010) This issue of the Delta Alliance newsletter informs you about the latest developments of your international delta network. During our strategy session in Shanghai on June 7, the mission of Delta Alliance was confirmed. We would like to encourage you to visit our online platform 'delta-zones.com' and to fill in our questionnaire if you did not already do so. Further, Mr. Will Travis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission in California, shares the challenges of working in this delta region. Delta Alliance Secretary, Thursday 22 July 2010 | | Delta Alliance Mission confirmed during World Estuary Alliance Conference During the World Estuary Alliance Conference, Delta Alliance hosted a strategy session on June 7 to define its mission and further strategy. With input from people working in deltas around the world, a mission for Delta Alliance was confirmed: to improve the resilience of deltas worldwide. To support this ambitious mission the Delta Alliance Resilience Strategy has been created, which provides a framework for network activities. Delta Alliance Secretary, Wednesday 21 July 2010 |
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Deltas and Climate Change news | DeltaCompetition attracts innovative and diverse ideas for climate adaptation from students around the world The worldwide DeltaCompetition challenged students to formulate creative solutions for adapting the delta cities of the world to climate change impacts. The competition, run by Delta Alliance, the City of Rotterdam and Royal Haskoning, received 24 unique submissions from eleven countries on five continents. Winners will be announced at the beginning of September; three winning teams will receive prizes of USD 3,000 and an expenses-paid trip to Rotterdam to present their work at the Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference, 29 September – 1 October 2010. Delta Alliance, Wednesday 18 August 2010 | | Modelling Effects of Sea Level Rise in Northern Gulf of Mexico NOAA has awarded USD 750,000 for the first year of an anticipated USD 3 million research investment to develop the information and tools critically needed to plan for sea level rise and other consequences of climate change along more than 300 miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico's shoreline. Waterlink International, Monday 9 August 2010 |
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General Climate Change News | El Niños are growing stronger, NASA/NOAA study finds A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting. ScienceDaily.com, Wednesday 25 August 2010 | | Greenhouse gas emissions calculated which result from the production of crops for fuel At the request of the European Commission, the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment has carried out a study into the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the production of biofuel crops. Each EU member state has had to carry out a similar type of study. LEI, Wageningen UR, Tuesday 24 August 2010 | | UK can halve maritime CO2 emissions A new study into how Britain might aim for a carbon-neutral transport sector by 2050 estimates CO2 emissions in the shipping industry could be halved by employing a range of available measures for maximum impact. CarbonPostive, Tuesday 24 August 2010 |
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