Climate

A rural response to climate change

Rural communities are more susceptible to the threats of climate change and will play an integral role in addressing its causes. Whether rural communities engage in climate conversations through their children, through community deliberation processes like the Rural Climate Dialogue, or through other avenues, these hard conversations have to happen.

Looking to the states on climate adaptation

The National Climate Assessment released yesterday states what most of us already know: Climate change is occurring and having real and costly impacts, but we aren’t ready.

Climate change in the 2015 federal budget and Farm Bill

This blog was originally published on RuralClimateNetwork.org.

Climate hubs: A step forward

It’s a big week in the agriculture world. Just days before Obama signed the new Farm Bill into law, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the locations of seven regional hubs for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Rural Climate Network expands

The second Rural Climate Network newsletter was released last week, featuring updates on how rural America is responding to the climate challenge.

Climate change hits home

In the past week, we have had a terrible reminder of what’s at stake in our work with the horrific typhoon hitting the Philippines.

A rural response to climate change: Introducing the Rural Climate Network

The annual global climate talks are underway this week in Warsaw, Poland. The agenda for the 19th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 19) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as the climate talks are formally called, includes discussions on “issues relating to agriculture” with climate change adaptation identified, appropriately, as a primary focus.

U.S. insurance industry needs to step up on climate change

Farmers and the insurance industry have one thing in common: they are both on the front lines of climate change. So far, the U.S. insurance industry has been slow to respond to climate induced risk and is well behind its European counterparts who are outspoken leaders for climate action.