A person’s water security is affected by their gender, as is their likelihood to hold decision making positions about this vital resource. To increase water...
Haiti is the most vulnerable country in Latin America and the Caribbean to climate change. Tackling environmental degradation and climate change impacts on...
As Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong and International Development Minister Pat Conroy hit the reset-rebuild button on the Australian aid programme, now...
To mark the upcoming International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the authors spoke with Lola Cabnal, a Guatemalan indigenous leader, to discuss the...
The development of Africa was spotlighted at a key UN meeting on Wednesday, with attention focused on advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and...
Women in the region suffer disproportionately from climate impacts, but they also play an essential role in addressing climate change. With the right policy...
Linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Latin American landmass has often been presented as one of the holy grails of development for the region...
Cape Town is dealing with one of the biggest climate change-linked water crises to face a modern city. This should serve as our wake-up call: we must transition...
The Lake Chad crisis is becoming one of the worst humanitarian disasters since World War II, and climate change is considered one of the drivers. In the four...
The exhibition “Environment, Conflict and Cooperation”, realized by adelphi and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, was recently displayed in El...
Socio-environmental conflicts have increased in Latin America, in part because of extractive projects. But, how is this linked to “irregular” groups? And what...
The consequences of Houston’s historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied. Indeed, the economic costs will take months to...
The impacts of Hurricane Harvey continue to be felt in the southern US. The events have sparked early debate over the links between the hurricane and climate...
Rapid population growth can impede efforts to combat poverty, particularly in places where environmental disasters and climate changes damage livelihoods...
One of the most pressing—and distressing—climate change impacts faced by the world is storm surge, a storm-induced increase in water level exceeding normal...
Multiple stressors converge on the Lake Chad region. Unemployment, depleting resources, poverty and conflict interact with climate change. Prolonged severe...