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Global hunger monitor faces 'large gap' after US aid cuts

For years Luis Treminio has provided guidance to farmers in El Salvador, using a US-backed famine monitoring system to boost crop production and help prevent hunger. Armed with public bulletins and r...

19 May 2025

Global hunger monitor faces 'large gap' after US aid cuts

Podcasts / Green Buildings

Can a desert city be liveable? Dubai scales green spine concept as developers eye ‘eco-friendly’ projects in harsh climate

...flooding in over seven decades in one of the world’s most advanced but arid cities. In the summer that just passed, residents in the city have had their limits pushed with heat and humidity. Accordin...

23 Sep 2024

Can a desert city be liveable? Dubai scales green spine concept as developers eye ‘eco-friendly’ projects in harsh climate

News / Manufacturing

How can fashion's net-zero future be paid for fairly?

...floods and heatwaves could cut the clothing export earnings of key producing countries by as much as 68 per cent and take away 8.6 million jobs by 2050, according to a study last year by the ILR Globa...

15 Mar 2024

How can fashion's net-zero future be paid for fairly?

News / Water

Indonesian coastal villages in the dark over nickel pollution

...flooding on 16 March caused a containment structure to burst, exposing nearly 1,100 people in Labota to the hazardous waste. Just days later, on 22 March, high rainfall led the embankment at one of th...

26 Nov 2025

Indonesian coastal villages in the dark over nickel pollution

News / Cities

Malaria cases in Indian forests feared to rise due to climate change

...floods in 2022, its malaria caseload increased fivefold due to stagnant pools of flood water where mosquitoes breed. Tree canopies combined with the hot and humid conditions in India’s forested areas,...

9 Sep 2024

Malaria cases in Indian forests feared to rise due to climate change

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks

...floods, fires and other climate change-driven catastrophic events. There also are more complex and indirect impacts, such as increasing food insecurity, the rising threat of infectious diseases, incre...

29 Apr 2024

Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks

News / Policy & Finance

Philippines’ BDO Unibank on urgency of blue bond and green financing: ‘We want to take the lead and work with regulators'

...flooding, veteran banker Atty. Federico P. Tancongco also has a personal story about surviving a typhoon. In 2019, the archipelago experienced a Pacific typhoon season that was the costliest ever rec...

14 Jun 2024

Philippines’ BDO Unibank on urgency of blue bond and green financing: ‘We want to take the lead and work with regulators'

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The 1.5°C target for global warming must prevail

...floods, and storms, resulting in devastating human and financial costs that extend well beyond national borders. Between 2000 and 2019, climate-related disasters claimed over half a million lives, cau...

7 Jun 2024

The 1.5°C target for global warming must prevail

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and conflict drive leishmaniasis in Pakistan

...floods) are fuelling its population growth. The species thrives in high humidity and warm weather. In 2017, a year-long sandfly study undertaken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district (approximately ...

13 Jan 2025

Climate change and conflict drive leishmaniasis in Pakistan

News / Water

Solar-powered irrigation: Empowering Bangladesh’s women farmers?

...floods in the upstream Brahmaputra River are causing its banks to erode, which is displacing residents onto Fulchhari’s newly formed Kayumer char. But here, “access to essential requirements like agri...

24 Dec 2024

Solar-powered irrigation: Empowering Bangladesh’s women farmers?

News / Carbon & Climate

New UN figures reveal huge cost of drought and desertification

...floods, increase biodiversity and return species that had migrated away due to drought. Elvira Marín Irigaray, director of Aland, a foundation dedicated to land restoration in Portugal and Spain, said...

5 Dec 2024

New UN figures reveal huge cost of drought and desertification

Press Releases / United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP, ADB renew partnership to accelerate sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific by 2030

...floods in Pakistan. In a region facing multiple shocks, these coordinated efforts will support a range of interventions for countries and communities in need and lay the ground for critical tra...

11 Aug 2024

UNDP, ADB renew partnership to accelerate sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific by 2030

News / Cities

Analysis: To help Chinese communities adapt to climate change, listen to them

...flooding caused by sea-level rise. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are among the world’s cities most at risk of damage from coastal flooding and storm surges, the New York Times has reported. Improving coastal...

7 Feb 2024

Analysis: To help Chinese communities adapt to climate change, listen to them

News / Cities

How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves

...flood discharge channels and increased waterlogging, complicating flood management efforts. “ Shenzhen’s comprehensive approach to environmental management has positioned it as a leader in urban sust...

30 Jul 2024

How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves

News / Manufacturing

Can better data protect fashion workers from climate risks?

...flooding, impacting their earnings and health. Growing heat and flood risk could cost key fashion-supplying countries 68 per cent of their apparel export earnings by 2050 - and slash 8.6 million pote...

9 Feb 2024

Can better data protect fashion workers from climate risks?

News / Water

In northern Pakistan, Indigenous ice stupas offer a nature-based water solution

...floods (GLOFs). Instead of ice stupas, Mir supports glacier grafting, an indigenous practice in Himalayan regions in which ice blocks from two glaciers are fused with water and placed in a shaded, hig...

18 Sep 2025

In northern Pakistan, Indigenous ice stupas offer a nature-based water solution

News / Policy & Finance

Powerful Asian countries will struggle to fill aid gap left by US

China is best placed to replace the United States as a key foreign donor in Asia but may be reluctant to fully fill the void, while South Korea and Japan may struggle to give enough, experts said. Fr...

20 Mar 2025

Powerful Asian countries will struggle to fill aid gap left by US

News / Carbon & Climate

Perfect storm: How climate change amplifies El Niño fallout

A year of record temperatures and extreme weather - from floods to fires - is due to a deadly cocktail of man-made climate change mixed with cyclical El Niño weather, scientists say. A spate of recen...

24 Apr 2024

Perfect storm: How climate change amplifies El Niño fallout

News / Water

Future of 1 billion people in South Asia hinges on water pact

...flood control measures. The analysis on the Indus and Ganges, meanwhile, highlights increasing competition for hydropower, food and water insecurity, and data gaps as problems to overcome. All three r...

9 Apr 2024

Future of 1 billion people in South Asia hinges on water pact

News / Carbon & Climate

We need radical action on climate finance at COP29

...flooding in Spain, soon after the havoc of hurricanes Helene and Milton in Florida, demonstrate that climate-related loss and damage does not discriminate between rich and poor. These events reinforce...

18 Nov 2024

We need radical action on climate finance at COP29

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