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Orange County Waste & Recycling (OCWR) is implementing a two-part strategy to reduce methane emissions: diverting organic waste into compost and utilizing the Smart Landfill Program (SLP). The SLP employs real-time data, drones, and robotic dogs to identify leaks and optimize gas collection, potentially reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 15%. Additionally, OCWR is exploring the conversion of excess landfill gas into biomethane and the installation of solar energy on closed landfills to support California's clean energy goals.

The research evaluates the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan) as a tool for managing conflicts between industrial forestry and Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding in Sweden. The analysis finds that the tool fails to improve procedural justice and instead privileges forestry-centered perspectives, potentially perpetuating existing injustices in forest governance without broader institutional reform.

Campinas, Brazil, launched its Local Climate Action Plan (PLAC) in June 2024, aiming for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The plan utilizes an integrated approach that connects climate priorities with social inclusion and nature, supported by a roadmap of approximately 130 short-term activities to ensure feasibility through 2032. To avoid governance gaps, the city established the Municipal Committee for Coping with Climate Change Impacts, which includes deliberative, consultative, and participative groups. Key immediate priorities include expanding 150 km of cycling infrastructure by 2030 and aligning climate targets with the 2026–2029 Multi-Year Plan (PPA) budget cycle.

The researchers used a co-creative, narrative-based approach in Lusaka, Zambia, combining natural language processing (NLP) and text network analysis (TNA) to integrate residents' experiences from informal settlements into flood-risk maps. This process, facilitated through 'learning labs' with stakeholders, aimed to address gaps in disaster risk management and social vulnerability. The primary finding was a critical need for local government to be more adaptive and inclusive of community voices in decision-making. The authors argue this framework provides a dynamic way to enhance stakeholder engagement and tailor resilience-building measures.

The evaluation of the GCF's 'Health and Well-being, and Food and Water Security' (HWFW) result area finds that while investments are highly relevant to country needs—particularly in food and water security—the RA approach itself has been inconsequential to achieving results. The report highlights significant gaps in health-related programming and tracking, as well as systemic challenges in results reporting and data quality. It recommends a comprehensive rearticulation of the purpose and formulation of all GCF result areas to better align with project origination and strategic impact.

The document highlights the escalating risk of wildfires in Canada, using the Jasper, Alberta fire as a case study to illustrate the dangers of fragmented governance and outdated policies. It proposes a three-pronged adaptation toolkit focusing on restricting new development in high-risk areas, retrofitting existing buildings with FireSmart materials, and implementing landscape-level risk reduction such as fuel thinning and Indigenous cultural burning.

The document highlights the urgent need for Canada to enhance wildfire preparedness, citing the Jasper fire as a critical warning. It identifies gaps in current zoning and governance and proposes a three-pronged adaptation toolkit involving land-use regulation, building retrofits, and landscape-level fuel management.

The document details how an Innovation Partnership between Climate Outreach and Pledgeball since 2021 has integrated academic research and expert evaluation into Pledgeball's climate action initiatives. By utilizing a collaboratively developed communications toolkit and M&E support, Pledgeball has refined its approach to engage sports fans through a pledging mechanism, avoiding buzzwords and focusing on community validation. The partnership has helped Pledgeball scale its operations to include 10-20 professional football clubs per season and other sports organizations, while providing Climate Outreach with case studies on the 'ripple effect' of community-led climate engagement.

The research applies a driver-response model to two watersheds in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands to analyze social-ecological interactions. In the Río Magdalena, smallholder agriculture employs low-impact adaptive strategies. In Ambos Nogales, urban growth and infrastructure-based solutions, such as inter-basin water transfers, dominate, while wastewater flows and climate change present ongoing challenges. The study argues that cross-border collaboration is essential for adaptation in these mutually conditioned systems.

The document examines the 'double exposure' of climate and globalization processes in the U.S.-Mexico border region, highlighting water scarcity as a primary vulnerability. It analyzes the challenges of binational institutional landscapes and evaluates three collaboration cases in the Arizona-Sonora region to identify factors that increase long-term resilience.

The research analyzes a decade-long initiative in the Arizona-Sonora border region, demonstrating that transboundary adaptive management is enhanced through binational collaboration, the involvement of multiple institutions, and the creation of accessible information tools for water-resources managers.

The document examines the emergence of network companies and "Pools de siembra" in South America, which separate the planning and commercialization of agricultural commodities from the actual field production by outsourcing to contractors. It notes that while these farming companies are a point of concern, their actual contribution to agricultural production remains unquantified because they are not defined as a distinct statistical group.

The authors present a method to evaluate outdoor recreation potential using landscape metrics and campsite density, arguing that this approach addresses the challenges of stakeholder perception and spatial scale in ecosystem services (ES) mapping. Applying the method across 15 ecoregions in Argentina, the study found that the influence of landscape determinants varies by region, limiting their generalisation capacity. Specifically, crop area did not negatively impact recreation potential as expected, and forest cover only showed a positive effect in the Pampas ecoregion. The analysis also indicates that unrealised benefits of recreation generally increase with higher population and road density.

The research examines three US-Argentina climate variability projects to highlight how connectivity and institutional support influence the production of usable knowledge among diverse stakeholders.

The paper bridges natural/social science research on adaptive capacity with public administration literature on collaborative governance. It identifies four shared dimensions of capacity—structural arrangements, leadership, knowledge and learning, and resources—and argues that collaborative capacities generate the adaptive capacities necessary for institutional adaptation. These concepts are illustrated through a case study of watershed management within the National Estuary Program.

The research examines how traditional communities in Northern Minas Gerais transitioned their territorial struggles into an environmental framework through the 'Vazanteiros em Movimento' movement. Using ethnographic fieldwork from 2006 to 2012 and the 'extended-case method', the study identifies contradictions in sustainable development ideologies, noting that compensatory parks for irrigated fruit farming projects actually facilitated the consolidation of agribusiness in the region while simultaneously sparking a social movement for territorial claims within the environmental sphere.

The document analyzes the nexus of energy, water, and climate in Mexico, arguing that subsidized nighttime electricity tariffs have incentivized indiscriminate groundwater pumping, undermining water conservation efforts and threatening aquifer sustainability. It estimates that emissions from agricultural groundwater extraction in Mexico account for 3.6% of total national emissions.

The document identifies population growth, economic development, and global climate change as three interrelated drivers creating management challenges for water resources. While integrated water resources management and integrated river basin management have been implemented, the authors argue these are insufficient. They propose complementary approaches that prioritize social, ecological, and hydroclimatic interactions, the dual nature of water as both a risk and a resource, and the use of adaptive management to build river basin resilience. These arguments are supported by case evidence from arid and semiarid regions across South and North America.

The text details the increase in overexploited aquifers in Mexico from 35 in 1975 to 123 in 2009, with a total deficit of 5,490 million cubic meters. In Hermosillo, the Costa de Hermosillo and Mesa del Seri-La Victoria aquifers support a population of over 700,000 and 65,000 hectares of irrigation. Despite the 2013 opening of the Acueducto Independencia to transport 75 million cubic meters from the Yaqui river basin, agricultural consumption in the municipality exceeds 570 million cubic meters annually, driven largely by subsidies.

The research identifies a link between water insecurity and the failure of multi-tiered institutions to respond to signals from local users. Using case examples from Tajikistan and Mexico, the authors demonstrate that neglecting participatory interaction threatens the livelihoods of vulnerable populations. The paper proposes that adaptive actions targeted at user-defined causes of insecurity and explicit coordination between local users and various institutional levels are necessary to reconcile economic efficiency, social equity, and environmental sustainability under the pressures of climate change and increased demand.