Growing water scarcity and climate change effects are having a profound global impact resulting in an urgent need for increased dialogue and cooperation over...
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. The Special Report on Climate Change and Land, launched by the...
80 per cent of the world’s poorest could be living in fragile contexts by 2030, making fragility one of the capital challenges to achieving sustainable...
This primer explains the current situation concerning the United Kingdom’s food supply and how this is likely to change in the medium and long term as a result...
States of Fragility 2018 exposes the critical challenge posed by fragility in achieving the aspirations of the 2030 Agenda, sustainable development and peace...
This new report by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in collaboration with the Clingendael Institute and other Dutch research institutes...
Conflict and climate change have pushed 124 million people in 51 countries into acute food security, a situation when the inability to consume adequate food...
"From Riches to Rags?" looks into the subject of stranded assets in the fossil fuel sector. Stranded assets are assets that lose value, or generate new...
Shortly after releasing a report on its climate change strategy in July 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations presents a new...
Climate change is amplifying the risk of extreme weather disasters by increasing the destructive power of storms and floods. At the same time, rising seas...
This paper seeks to assess the interdependencies among water scarcity, youth unemployment and migration. It also attempts to unravel the different roles of...
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a non-legally binding agreement designed to reduce existing levels of risk and prevent emerging risks...
"There is no peace without tackling food security and eliminating hunger and there will be no food without tackling climate change.” A couple of days ago, the...
Acknowledging the complexity of the interaction between the biophysical environment, human security and political conflict, this briefing note focuses on their...
There has been a surge in international migration in recent years, reaching a total of 244 million individuals in 2015. Forced displacement has also reached a...
Changes in global weather patterns are now projected to have potentially devastating impacts on agriculture in the coming years and decades. The rising “double...
Climate change is the ultimate threat multiplier. It will aggravate fragility, contribute to social upheaval and even violent conflicts. The problem is the...
Water is a unique resource because of its multiple uses and key role for any economic development. In many shared river basins, water resources availability is...
Climate change poses numerous challenges for international river basins that are likely to intensify in the decades to come. These challenges will have...