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Resilient Cities 2013 Closes – Key messages are clear

June 3, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Resilience

Resilient Cities 2013 attracted participants from 49 countries and representatives from 60 cities. The key messages, reiterated at the closing plenary session were clear. In...

Financing and Private Industry Engagement Key Adaptation Challenges

By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Resilience

Current climate change and resilience funding is largely channelled through national governments. In developed countries national governments collect the majority of taxes and they then...

Local adaptation action – from Resilient Cities 2013

June 1, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Conference, Edge News, Resilience

Two key points were established in the first plenary session of Resilient Cities 2013. Firstly, the clearest connection between mitigation and adaptation is that a...

Edge and Macquarie University microalgae research published

May 21, 2013 By Jonas BengtssonIn All Categories, Climate Change, Edge News, Edge Publication, Life Cycle Assessment, Reports and Publications

Scott Grierson (Aquatic Biomass Solutions), Vladimir Strezov (Associate Professor at Macquarie University) and Jonas Bengtsson’s work “Life cycle assessment of a microalgae biomass cultivation, bio-oil...

Learning to Adapt 5 – 1 August

May 14, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Conference, Edge News, Resilience

Building the Capacity of Australia’s Professionals to Respond to Climate Change Learning to Adapt 5 (L2A5) is an EIANZ initiative designed to update, train and...

Edge Environment seconding Jacqui Bonnitcha to UN

May 8, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Resilience

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,...

Edge pioneers resilient housing principles

May 3, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Resilience

Edge Environment has been working with Lake Macquarie City Council to develop guidelines for resilient housing. This pioneering approach to managing risk from flooding and...

Delivering a more resilient built environment

April 22, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Resilience

Australia has a long history of extreme weather events. The impact that these events have on Australian communities has increased as the value of assets...

Climate Change Adaptation – What is the future for Australia?

April 11, 2013 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Conference, Edge News

Edge Environment is pleased to have had two abstracts accepted to the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) 2013 Conference. The abstracts are titled...

25th Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) Conference

November 15, 2012 By adminsIn All Categories, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Reports and Publications, Sustainable Construction

The annual EIANZ took place in Sydney on October 24th and 25th under the slogan of “Stronger, Wiser, Bolder”. The conference was attended by over...