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Capacity Building with the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute

January 12, 2026
By Sumana Palle Introduction In December 2025, I traveled to Addis Ababa, as part of a technical capacity-building mission with NCDP’s Financial Instruments (FIST) team, formerly of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). Led by Max Mauerman from NCDP and Jeff Turmelle from the Columbia Climate School, the mission was conducted in …

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Leveraging Next-Generation Tsunami Early Warning Systems to Save Lives

August 05, 2025
Also published in the Columbia Climate School, State of the Planet. When an enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the impact reached far beyond its epicenter. In the passing hours, tsunami alerts were issued by several nations with coastlines along the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, prompting evacuations and escalating emergency response efforts from …

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What is the Climate Finance Vulnerability Index (CliF-VI)?

June 25, 2025
By: Amy Campbell, Student Researcher, National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) Adaptation finance is critically underfunded, with existing finance skewed toward mitigation and middle-income markets. Many countries facing the highest climate risk also carry significant debt burdens and have been repeatedly downgraded by credit rating agencies, thereby increasing their cost of capital and pushing adaptation …

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