The International Research Institute for Climate and Society

For decades, IRI has worked across the globe to build climate information resources. Our ACToday project is a culmination of that work. Learn more here: https://iri.columbia.edu//video-adapting-agriculture-to-c/

After two recent devastating storms, climate migration has become a reality for an estimated 10,000 in Central America. Our very own Ángel G. Muñoz spoke with Jeff Berardelli for CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com//climate-change-migration-central/

Supporting the Principles for #LocallyLed Adaptation is about putting communities in the driver's seat of #climateadaptation action. Learn more https://www.wri.org//glo/principles-locally-led-adaptation World Resources Institute International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) SDI. BRAC #AdaptationSummit #AdaptOurWorld

"We're excited to join 40+ governments & organizations commit to support local actors on #ClimateAdaptation, initiating a dramatic shift in the status quo from top-down to #LocallyLed adaptation. Learn more https://www.wri.org//glo/principles-locally-led-adaptation #AdaptOurWorld ... BRAC World Resources Institute International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) SDI.

What is going on with New York’s snowstorms and what will be the consequences of these potentially changing weather patterns? Our Andrew Kruczkiewicz shared thoughts with Gothamist: https://gothamist.com//nyc-snowstorms-warming-winter-tempe

"Often you see climate change acting on top of this climate variability and exacerbating stresses that are already existing in our food system, says Weston Anderson. He & Ángel G. Muñoz shared thoughts on ENSO & global agriculture with Kimberly M. S. Cartier for AGU: https://eos.org/f/climate-change-uproots-global-agriculture

"From one day to the next, our beloved New York City became the site of the tragedy, as Covid-19 ravaged the city. Simultaneously, the increasingly frequent wildfires around the globe, and the social protest ignited by systemic exclusion and racism, illustrated complex interactions that do not fit neatly into a single discipline. Now our concerns were not only about our future careers but also what academia was doing to effectively respond to these challenges." A group of sus...tainability-focused postdocs, including Weston Anderson, J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera, & Elisabeth K. Ilboudo Nebie of IRI & The Earth Institute pondered the challenges of interdisciplinary career paths in sustainability and have published their work in Springer Nature this week. Read their blog & find the resulting paper here: https://sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com//coffee

How can we construct climate-conscious cities? Dannie Dinh, Program Officer and Deputy Country Lead of Vietnam for the Adapting Agriculture to Climate Today, for Tomorrow (ACToday) project, is leading a session this Thursday, Feb 4th at 4pm EST at part of The Earth Institute's K12 LIVE series. Target audience: Grades 6-8... Session description: "Our climate is indeed changing, ultimately altering our world as we know it. Join this creative session to learn about the risks and challenges of climate change and what innovative ideas and solutions can help reduce or adapt to those impacts. Then brainstorm and draw what these ideas would look like in our own daily life and community. Together, we will imagine and sketch our future world in the face of a changing climate." Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-institute-live-k12-const

On the third Thursday of each month, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society holds a climate briefing, where it releases updated global seasonal climate forecasts as well as its forecast on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. In this video, IRI's Weston Anderson summarizes the key points from that briefing. For more, visit iri.columbia.edu/enso and follow #IRIForecast on Twitter. https://iri.columbia.edu//january-climate-briefing-la-nin/

At the Gobeshona Global Conference hosted by the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), Ángel G. Muñoz & Carmen Gonzalez Romero will be leading a session about climate services in Latin America with partners at CIAT, Ideam Instituto, INSIVUMEH, & World Food Programme on Thursday, January 21 at 10:00-11:30 EDT / 11:00-12:30 EST / 16:00-17:30 UTC. Register here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSelQme1aM45HgWqEz/viewform