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This climate change project in a village in Senegal established a borehole and solar panels to improve water access during the dry season (Photo: Dansira Dembele/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Seeing clearly: transitioning to transparency at COP24
Insight, 01 December 2018
First book focusing on adaptation to climate change in cities
… Adapting Cities to Climate Change contains contributions by 37 specialists from a variety of … disciplines, several of whom served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It has chapters on key climate-related health issues in … Climate change … First book focusing on adaptation to climate change in cities …
News, 10 June 2009
Woman wearing a face mask sits on the floor and handles tools
From risks to resilience for informal workers – part one
… with multiple risks linked to public and occupational health, climate change and exclusion from social benefits. Women informal workers face … informally in factories; women making goods such as clothes at home; domestic workers who cook and/or clean in higher-income …
Insight, 07 February 2023
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
Insight, 20 December 2017
Climate-change media alliance tackles information vacuum in developing nations
… and journalists has given a major boost to media coverage of climate change in developing nations. Internews, the International Institute for … hundreds of stories for print, online, radio and TV outlets in their home countries. Their reports and blogs are viewable in English, … Climate change … Climate-change media alliance tackles information vacuum in developing …
News, 21 January 2008
Science clearly shows climate impacts on ocean and ice accelerating demanding faster action from governments
… “This report’s findings are staggering. The rate and magnitude of change to the ocean, glaciers and ice sheets are happening much faster than previously predicted. The climate emergency must be met with equally accelerated action. “The … on the ocean will disproportionately hit tropical areas, which are home to the highest concentration of people living in poverty. Their …
News, 25 September 2019
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… of rapid urban population growth . We need to examine how urban change is influenced by national economies and their connections (and … and how they should go back to what he assumed was their village home. So I asked him: "Do you have a maid?" Yes. "Do you have a cook?" … be covered later in this series). New roles and responsibilities for climate change So far, climate change has had little discernible …
Insight, 27 May 2020
In 1992 the United Nations called Mexico City "the most polluted city on the planet". City authorities took radical steps to cut pollution, but Mexico City still has smog and is increasingly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Fidel Gonzalez, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Should cities invest in climate mitigation?
Insight, 21 September 2015
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Food security in the context of Vietnam’s rural – urban linkages and climate change
… Despite its modest contribution to climate change, Vietnam is expected to be heavily affected by its impacts. … and the financial crisis has reduced migrants’ ability to send money home. This suggests that food security in Vietnam should be seen as a … Food security in the context of Vietnam’s rural – urban linkages and climate change …
Publication, 01 December 2013
Group of women sit on the floor and raise their hands up.
How women leaders are getting better social protection for the vulnerable
… in local decision-making and contribute to the development and climate-resilience agenda. What do the women leaders do? Ensuring … The effectiveness of social protection programmes in delivering climate resilience during a crisis depends on benefits reaching the most … the delivery of social protection, their empowerment has delivered change in other ways. Shifting power By supporting not just their own …
Insight, 05 July 2022