Policy-makers are often wary of the large investments and efforts a sustainable transformation of the economy requires. But it can provide significant...
On the African continent, climate change poses significant risks, i.a. for food and water security. Concurrently, certain regions suffer from high fragility and...
At the Third Meeting of the School for Environmental Leaders in Potosí, leaders and representatives of the communities affected by environmental pollution met...
While traditional livelihoods or herding maintain a deep-rooted socio-cultural and philosophical significance for Mongolia and its nearly 3 million people...
Sustainable development has fallen under the climate change agenda but most recently it has emerged as a unifying force for all environmental security issues...
23-25 February 2015,Washington, D.C., USA.This annual conference, attended by high-level business executives, government officials, representatives from...
14-18 March 2015,Sendai, Japan.The Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will bring together several thousand participants to assess the progress on...
This DFID-approved Topic Guide reviews the latest evidence on the relationship between climate change, environmental stress and conflict in a way that is...
The latest World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies studies the effect of culture on risk reduction. One...
The paper Managing for Resilience: Framing an Integrated Landscape Approach for Overcoming Chronic and Acute Food Insecurity proceeds from the insight that...
Securing Forests, Securing Rights is the report from the International Workshop on Deforestation and the Rights of Forest Peoples held in Palangka Raya...
This report by the Gaia Foundation looks at the impacts of expanding mining activities on the earth’s ecosystems and communities. It focuses on the adverse...
Environmental degradation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia has caused a loss of livelihoods and led to resource competition over water amongst the states sharing...
From Each According to His Capability...As the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the UNFCCC closed in mid-December 2014 in Lima, Peru...
Numerous Chinese cities go through what is now dubbed an “airpocalypse” mainly due to the explosion of coal plants and transport by cars. In the meantime...
