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Poor and vulnerable countries are defying climate inaction
Insight, 09 November 2011
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
… or infrastructure, making residents and workers more vulnerable to climate change impacts such as extreme heat, storms or flooding. What did IIED … working in factories, street vending, construction, brick kilns, and home-based workers as well as their family members.  UHRC has strong … Climate change …
Project, 01 October 2018
Climate refugees of the future
… erosion. Erosion is nothing unusual in Bangladesh. But the threat of climate change has made the country much more vulnerable. Now Jalil, once a … city. Bangladesh's Institute of Water Modelling has shown that Bhola, home to over two million people, had a landmass of 1550 sq km in 1973, … Climate change …
Insight, 30 April 2009
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Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas
… – for disaster risk reduction, for post-disaster rebuilding and for climate change adaptation. The paper by Diane Archer and Somsook Boonyabancha … Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas …
Publication, 01 October 2011
Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)
Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
Insight, 23 October 2014
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… this event, a group of participants grappled with the ways in which climate change will affect urban health, based on experiences of both the … at all the factors Efforts to identify the health consequences of climate change have often adopted an 'impacts-first' perspective, … Climate change … Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience …
Insight, 17 March 2014
Extinction Rebellion climate protesters march through London behind a big green banner proclaiming 'Rebel for life'
The Paris Agreement always needed Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg
… holiday – hotter than ever recorded for Easter Monday. And it saw climate protests the like of which we have never seen before as the … The roots of this hopeful tipping point in the politics of climate change lie in the failure to deliver on the promise of something … a moment of hope. This blog was originally published on the Climate Home News website . …
Insight, 24 April 2019
2009 Development and Climate Days film festival highlights
Article, 22 July 2010
Climate protestors in Doha, Qatar.
Seven ways to reignite climate action after dismal Doha
Insight, 10 December 2012
Climate Communications Day at Doha: New approaches to reach new audiences
News, 13 December 2012