WEBWIRE – Friday, July 25, 2008 South Africa trip prompts work on online tool with global application David Chandler Ten graduate students from MIT recently spent three weeks in Durban, South Africa, working on a project to develop an online tool that could help municipal governments around the world adapt to a changing climate. During their trip, the students concentrated on gathering information from representatives working in diverse municipal agencies and uncovering adaptation activities that are taking place in the course of routine work. Over the next year, that information will be used to develop and refine the planned tool that could aid Durban and other cities in initiating adaptation efforts. In their interviews and field trips, the students were learning "what people understood about climate change and current...
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