Tag Archives: Climate Change Sustainability Index
Edge Environment seconding Jacqui Bonnitcha to UN
Congratulations to Jacqui Bonnitcha for being offered an internship at the Climate Change Planning Unit of the Urban Planning and Design Branch (UPDB), UN Habitat, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Jacqui will go to Kenya in July for a six month internship and return to Edge Environment in January 2014. Whilst working at the UN Jacqui [...]
Contributing to a more resilient built environment for Australia
Edge Environment, in partnership with Climate Risk, has delivered a significant milestone in the Insurance Council of Australia’s (ICA) Resilience Rating Tool initiative. An online pilot version of the tool was presented to a Property Working Group of the ICA in December 2011 to a positive reception. The Resilience Rating Tool (RRT) uses ratings of [...]
An Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings in New Zealand to the Impacts of Climate Change
The scientific evidence is very strong: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response. The objective of this report is to assess the need to adapt houses in New Zealand to climate change. Our assessment is based on medium-low and medium-high climate change scenarios from research by NIWA. To [...]
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