Severe pollution incidents have provided some of the most visually arresting images of recent armed conflicts. Oil fires and spills, bomb – damaged and looted...
WATCH: In this video, Kitty van der Heijden, Director for Europe and Africa at the World Resources Institute, argues that there is a huge demand for up to date...
Over 80 percent of countries consider environmental crime a national priority, with most recognizing that new and more sophisticated criminal activities are...
WATCH: In this interview, Dr. Chad Briggs outlines the roles of diplomacy and of the intelligence and defense community respectively in reducing disaster risk...
The report Climate Change: A Risk Assessment argues that the risks of climate change need to be considered on a par with risks to national security, financial...
WATCH: In this interview, Janani Vivekananda highlights the importance of community-based adaptation that acknowledges grass-root realities, but is also...
WATCH: In this brief interview, Marcus Oxley, Executive Director of the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, explains how...
In the 20 year period 1994 through 2013, over 500,000 people died in over 15,000 natural disasters. On the occasion of COP20 in Lima, the Bonn-based NGO...