A new video series by the EU-funded HABITABLE project examines how changes in the climate and environment are influencing how people perceive the “habitability”...
It has been more than one year since the gavel came down at the last UN biodiversity summit, where almost every country in the world agreed on a plan to protect...
The hard-fought resolution, which was proposed by Ukraine, is the assembly’s third and potentially most impactful text on the environmental dimensions of armed...
Numerous global reforestation efforts are underway, but research suggests getting long-term benefits is harder than it looks, and some projects can do more harm...
Unplanned or forced migration in response to climate change can expose people to new risks and vulnerabilities. But informed migration in full knowledge of...
An updated guide to the intergovernmental negotiations taking place in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada, that have a crucial role to play in halting...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
Prior to Russia’s assault on Ukraine, there were an estimated 84 million displaced persons around the world. Just over one month later, the addition of 10...
In this article, the authors examine the links between deforestation and security, charting a way forward for policymakers, law enforcement and the multilateral...
The destruction of nature and the world’s ecosystems presents an unprecedented challenge for humanity. With one million species on the brink of extinction – the...
What role does climate change play in the Sahel’s current instability? What are the best climate emergency adaptation strategies to promote in the area? What...
Mobility can be a viable response to climate change. National and international policy should protect those who move and address the vulnerabilities leading to...
In this report, Eoghan Darbyshire assesses the current state of forest loss in conflict areas, surveying the changes and hotspots in the past 15 months during...
In his address on this year’s World Cities Day, UN-Secretary General António Guterres recognised that “cities have borne the brunt of the pandemic” and called...
Now in its second decade, the ambitious African Union–led restoration initiative known as the Great Green Wall has brought close to 18 million hectares of land...
Human mobility plays an important role in the shaping of the world's urban centers. These four infographics, prepared by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI...
With cities continuously more threatened by climate change-induced disasters, urban planning’s reflex response is to protect cities against nature. But what if...
Two events in August 2019 underlined the complexity of paving the way to a climate-neutral world: the publishing of the new IPCC report and the Amazon fires...