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New issue of 'Environment and Urbanization' - Vol 21, No 2. 'Secure land for housing and urban development'
… finance that they can draw on as and when needed. The journal’s Climate Change section includes papers on migration, the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change and the performance of the Beddington Zero Energy …
News, 15 October 2009
Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)
Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?
… adaptation and mitigation needs in developing countries. So far climate funds have shown resistance to fund hydropower, due to the … risk through to foreign exchange risks, hydrological risks (such as climate change or more irrigation upstream) or the risks that government … identification and management of risk is essential in designing and delivering a viable investment. Abandoned hydropower projects in Chile, …
Insight, 17 December 2018
Woman cooks using wood fire
Feeding all city inhabitants
… of basic infrastructure and waste management as well as exposure to climate change-induced extreme events such as floods and heatwaves, …
Insight, 27 June 2021
Skyline view of a city with houses and short buildings in the front and skyscrapers in the background.
Q&A: Citizen participation in planning − from the neighbourhood to the city
… scale up. The historically dominant role of the development sector in delivering services for 'the poor', and an increasingly powerful state … Exploring these questions is extremely important in the context of climate-related hazards and greater intensity of disasters.   Q: Have …
Article, 10 December 2021
Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling
How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
… vital benefits we collectively enjoy. Coastal ecosystems regulate our climate systems, help purify the air we breathe, and shield us from … are diverse —including urbanization, development, overfishing and climate change. But current 'command and control' ocean governance …
Insight, 01 November 2013
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
… people whose high consumption lifestyles are driving anthropogenic climate change. And they include a billion urban dwellers living in … commitments to disaster risk reduction and to integrating this with climate change adaptation. Also a strong endorsement of the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on climate change mitigation. There is even a …
Insight, 08 September 2015
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… to support energy projects in developing countries, from the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) (PDF) and the Green Climate Fund to public pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. A key … where public, private or combined interventions are most effective in delivering modern energy services to different population segments …
Insight, 30 September 2014
CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)
Time to turn the PAGE?
… just another talk fest and that concrete ways of addressing poverty, climate change, resource degradation would be shared.   Bottom up green … (CANARI)  to help small businesses use natural resources sustainably, climate-proof their enterprises and help to empower communities.  SMEs …
Insight, 17 January 2019
Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can global funds be accountable at the local level?
… to come from global funds – for instance those set up to support climate change adaptation and mitigation or to tackle specific diseases … the amount of money allocated globally to some focus areas (climate change, sanitation, malaria, child immunisation) seems huge. …
Insight, 09 August 2016
Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)
Green lessons for the blue economy
… political interest, ocean damage is fast becoming the ‘new’ climate change.  The severity of the problem and efforts to address it … campaigns are making all the right noises. But what are they actually delivering for poor countries and poor people whose livelihoods depend … food supplies and promoting good health and sustainable fisheries  Climate action, agriculture and fisheries, waste management and …
Insight, 11 December 2018