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- USA
- What do you do?
- Reporter, Press Officer
- Organisation
- International Research Institute for Climate and Society
- Fields of interest
- science, health, climate change
- Email address
- francesco@iri.columbia.edu
- Website:
- http://iri.columbia.edu
- Languages
- conversational Italian
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- Hello everyone,
I'm the communications officer at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University (New York)
Francesco Fiondella's Blog
Index Insurance- can it help reduce poverty?
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Swiss Re are jointly hosting a high-level policy roundtable on the use of index insurance for poverty reduction at this year's…
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Posted on 23rd June 2008 at 9:13pm —
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Index Insurance- can it help reduce poverty?
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Swiss Re are jointly hosting a high-level policy roundtable on the use of index insurance for poverty reduction at this year's…
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Posted on 23rd June 2008 at 9:13pm —
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Summer Institute on Climate Information for Public Health
Fourteen professionals from nine countries are hard at work learning ways to use climate knowledge to make better decisions for health-care planning and control of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria and meningitis. They are participants of the…
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Posted on 11th June 2008 at 4:44pm —
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Agricultural water management and climate risk
Feasible investments in agricultural water management are likely to bring the greatest livelihood benefit to the rural poor of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia if they are part of a comprehensive approach to managing climate risk, according to a new report from the International Research Institute for Climate and Soci…
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Posted on 30th May 2008 at 12:33am —
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Using climate information to help combat malaria
Malaria affects between 300 and 500 million people every year, according to the WHO. It causes two percent of all deaths worldwide--among them 3,000 children a day, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Complications from malaria, such as severe anemia, account for at least a million additional deaths. Most of the countries wher…
Posted on 25th April 2008 at 9:33pm —
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I will be in Bali as well. Would love to catch up at some point. Jeffrey Sachs has spoke at a few of our events and I'm a big fan of the Earth Institute. We have a few side events too if you're interested. Nice to meet you (electronically at least).
Very much interesting information you have posted in this network. Regarding weather forcasting in Nepal we are far behind till now. The first main reason is the lack of technology and the other is complex topography.Mainly the altitudional variations that mean within the distance of 200 KM there are altitudional variations from 60m to 8848m above sea level. Globle warming due to the climate change has also becomining the meajor issues in Nepal. We have also been feeling difficulties to develop climate change senarions in Nepal. I want to share ideas from you about this topics.
Kattel
Thanks for joining the network. What is your observation about George Bush's recent comments on climate change.
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Saadi
Nice to see you here!