New York has nearly 600 miles of coastline and is preparing for significant increases in flooding, rainfall and extreme heat by 2100. Jainey Bavishi explains the city’s $20 billion project to adapt to climate change by building new sea defences, raising public awareness and even painting rooftops white to reflect the searing summer sun.
Coffee growers in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste region face shrinking harvests as rising temperatures damage their crops and global coffee prices continue to decline, making it hard to break even. So they’ve adapted by branching out into a new business – growing oranges.
Three innovations that help to fight the impact of climate change and create a more sustainable lifestyle.
From saving the oceans of pollutants to reducing the impact of the food industry, these are all contributing to realising sustainable development goal – climate action.
