The Kigali amendment - seeking to reduce climate-damaging HFCs - is considered a diplomatic victory. In fulfilling its pledge, India’s cooling sector has a...
Cities are on the sharp end of a range of risks from criminal violence, terrorism and war to demographic pressures, to climate and environmental change. Coastal...
To facilitate a broader discussion on climate-fragility risks in Japan and reflect and discuss the findings of the G7 report and its implications and relevance...
This paper provides some initial reflections on climate-fragility risks for Japan. To complement this analysis, the paper also presents findings from a...
Japan needs to consider climate risks beyond its borders. Climate change impacts globally and in the Asia-Pacific region will affect Japan’s food security, the...
This briefing paper, in particular, starts by outlining some of the most important climate-fragility risks in Asia. Against this backdrop, the results of an...
A greater understanding of the relationship between climate change, migration, cities and conflict is required in the global research community. Clemence Finaz...
WATCH: Climate policy consultant and researcher Fergus Green, based at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), explains the top three...
The changing climate brings about more intense floods in cities in India and all around the world. It seems, however, that urban planning is still neglecting...
Diplomacy surrounding climate change happens on numerous levels. The current definition of climate diplomacy largely centres on the negotiations by state...
Since opening up to the international community after the election of a civilian government in 2010, Myanmar has undergone rapid political, economic, and social...
Afghanistan is a country where conflict and natural hazard-induced disasters interplay and is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to the impacts...
Although Tajikistan has made huge progress on poverty reduction, it is still the poorest country in Central Asia. A difficult post-Soviet transition, the 1993...
Honduras has been a relatively stable democracy since military rule ended in 1981[1]; unlike many of its neighbours, it did not experience a protracted civil...
Although climate projections for Egypt indicate significant adverse impacts, the topic of climate change is politically avoided. One reason for this is the...
Fragility risks in Lebanon are increasing due to growing internal and external pressures. Spill-over economic and social effects of the Syrian conflict...
Karachi, the world’s second largest city by population, is emerging from the grips of a deadly heatwave. A persistent low pressure system camped over the...
Syria is a warning sign of the crises to come. It gives us an important lesson on the links between livelihood insecurity, climate change and fragility. However...
Global cities like Singapore have the unique opportunity to contribute in the learning from and sharing of best practices in urban sustainability and...
Jordan remains one of the few stable countries in the Middle-East. Yet, the underlying economic issues that led to protests associated with the Arab Spring and...