Thursday, March 28, 2024
A new muti-sectoral investment in the state of Pará, Northern Brazil, was approved today by the World Bank Board of Directors, targeting reforms in social programs, education, and environment protection to help Pará reach its development goals. The US$...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
When discussing the human security impacts of climate change, climate-induced migration is often viewed as a distant and intangible concern. Despite widespread consensus on “loss and damage” at COP27 in Egypt last November, climate migration in...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Regions within Pakistan have been vulnerable to and impacted by climate-related disasters long before the widespread flooding of 2022. In Chitral, a district in the north of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, flooding and landslide risks from monsoon systems...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
An online tool that gives people in rural India access to drought early warnings and geographic data to help them find ways to adapt to climate change has been devised by IIED and is being rolled out in several states. The Climate Resilience Information...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Environmental risk factors such as air pollution affect health and income disproportionately in lower income households. In this IGC project, we review the long-term effects of non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, and air pollution, particularly on...
Monday, August 29, 2022
It’s 2pm on a sunny and humid afternoon in Fiji. Our team has just arrived in Sigatoka, a seaside town on a well-traveled section of the Queens Road, the main road that loops around the coast of Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu. We arrive in Nadroumai...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has unveiled the state’s social protection policy to combat the socio-economic vulnerability to poverty and deprivation at all levels in the society.
The policy is a framework that will provide direction,...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
West Africa is increasingly impacted by climate change through more frequent and intense droughts and floods which hit the poorest most. When shocks hit, early action can help households cope. In November 2021, the Government of Niger decided to act...
Monday, February 7, 2022
The year 2020 was unprecedented, and not only because of Covid-19; many countries faced compounding risks from multiple disasters, with nuanced and complex impacts. A recent publication and data dashboard from the Climate Centre...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
We urgently need new social-ecological policies to simultaneously tackle the climate emergency and create a fairer society. Such social-ecological policies would need to support societies to stay within planetary boundaries, satisfy everyone’s basic...