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'We've got each other's backs': A blueprint for shared resilience?

...floods or economic disruption. That idea – we've got each other's backs, regardless of race, language or religion – will be important as we face heat, flood resilience, and risks to our food and water...

11 Aug 2026

'We've got each other's backs': A blueprint for shared resilience?

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: Could making ocean clouds shinier cool the planet?

...flood of funding for SRM technology development from governments worldwide. It is the height of folly to unleash SRM field experiments into a world devoid of either national or international governanc...

8 Sep 2025

Explainer: Could making ocean clouds shinier cool the planet?

Press Releases / UN Women

COP29 decisions deliver gains for gender equality in climate action, but more remains to be done

...floods, and other disasters. Care-related responsibilities are most often undertaken by women and girls, which makes this recognition a significant step forward for integrating women’s concerns ...

14 Dec 2024

COP29 decisions deliver gains for gender equality in climate action, but more remains to be done

Opinion / Cities

Why disability inclusion is important for climate resilience

...floods. During the 2017 flooding in rural New South Wales in Australia, those with disabilities were disproportionately impacted by unstable housing, displacement, and post-traumatic stress disorder. ...

13 Feb 2024

Why disability inclusion is important for climate resilience

News / Policy & Finance

Just transitions in the Mekong: China’s role in trade and investment

...floods. Displacement of local communities and chemical pollution were highlighted as further negative outcomes of some Chinese investments. Participants emphasised the need to scrutinise why host cou...

23 Sep 2024

Just transitions in the Mekong: China’s role in trade and investment

News / Carbon & Climate

Here's why climate change in Afghanistan has global repercussions

Afghanistan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, with worsening droughts and flash flooding destroying livelihoods and fuelling hunger. However, the Taliban's seizure of the cou...

11 Dec 2023

Here's why climate change in Afghanistan has global repercussions

News / Policy & Finance

Conflict-hit countries left to face climate change alone

Somali aid worker Hasan Mohammad Sirat has almost no tools at his disposal to tackle the devastating effects of extreme weather in his war-torn country, where floods this year have followed hard on t...

12 Dec 2023

Conflict-hit countries left to face climate change alone

News / Carbon & Climate

‘Phantom’ rice projects expose voluntary carbon market failings

...flooded fields – rice grows well in such conditions, weeds do not. However, these anaerobic soil conditions lead to the production of methane, a particularly potent greenhouse gas. In 2018, rice culti...

24 Dec 2024

‘Phantom’ rice projects expose voluntary carbon market failings

News / Water

Analysis: Himalayan countries must focus on what works for adaptation

...floods in Pakistan were devastating, and the response by the government highlighted many failures when it comes to adaptation measures. Women were amongst the worst affected, but are excluded from cli...

27 Mar 2024

Analysis: Himalayan countries must focus on what works for adaptation

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Synergising digital tech and climate tech to enhance Asean climate action

...flooded, can reduce methane emissions by up to 50 per cent. AWD uses hollow pipes embedded in paddy fields (Picture 1) to monitor water levels when they are drained to a depth which avoids damaging t...

7 Jan 2025

Synergising digital tech and climate tech to enhance Asean climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

‘The hottest year’: 10 extreme weather events in 2023

...Floods destroy neighbourhoods in Libya Buildings destroyed by flooding in Libya. Image: Mchs.gov.ru , CC BY 4.0, On 10 September, Storm Daniel swept across north-eastern Libya, bringing ferocious w...

27 Dec 2023

‘The hottest year’: 10 extreme weather events in 2023

Opinion / Lifestyle

Could text-to-video AI spell a new era for greenwashing?

Last week, OpenAI, the creators of ChatGTP, announced the arrival of a new text-to-video tool called Sora that has since flooded social media feeds with ultra-realistic high-definition clips created e...

23 Feb 2024

Could text-to-video AI spell a new era for greenwashing?

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News / Energy

China’s power system needs climate proofing

...flood-proof substations, and decentralised solar-storage microgrids to sustain critical services during extreme conditions. Collectively, these steps would transform China’s power system from one that...

21 Apr 2025

China’s power system needs climate proofing

News / Policy & Finance

Can pre-disaster cash and aid help fix climate 'loss and damage'?

...flood from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP). The WFP support enabled Ali to feed his two cows and two goats when the water struck. By contrast, a few years ago he had to sell his animals after floo...

19 Oct 2023

Can pre-disaster cash and aid help fix climate 'loss and damage'?

News / Food & Agriculture

Domestic violence is cost of climate change for Sri Lankan women

...floods and storms can exacerbate economic hardship, which in turn can fuel anger and violence. As families fall into penury because of failed harvests and lost incomes, researchers and affected women ...

14 Feb 2024

Domestic violence is cost of climate change for Sri Lankan women

News / Manufacturing

How can the fashion industry protect workers from extreme weather?

...floods can stop them from reaching their workplaces, cutting their income. In Bangladesh, for example, a third of factories could be subjected to above-normal river and coastal flooding by 2030. “ At...

21 Sep 2023

How can the fashion industry protect workers from extreme weather?

News / Policy & Finance

Green bonds, red flags: Cambodia’s microfinance crisis deepens amid sustainability push

...flooding and droughts become more common. He is not optimistic about this year’s crops. “If climate change leads to a poor harvest, I have no idea how I’ll pay back my loans,” he said. Microfinance wa...

11 Oct 2024

Green bonds, red flags: Cambodia’s microfinance crisis deepens amid sustainability push

News / Transport

Can EVs help break Pakistan’s fossil fuel dependency?

...flood Pakistan with affordable EVs just as it did with solar panels.” But he said there should be a focus on local manufacturing, discouraging the import of completely built-up EVs, and said more auto...

21 Aug 2025

Can EVs help break Pakistan’s fossil fuel dependency?

News / Cities

A decade after the floods, is Kedarnath safer?

...flood (GLOF). This increased the flow of the Mandakini River, flooding the whole Kedarnath Valley and settlements downstream, and destroying the 14km pilgrimage route to the Kedarnath Temple. “I was...

24 Aug 2023

A decade after the floods, is Kedarnath safer?

News / Cities

Thousands of hospitals at high risk from climate change, warns report

...flooding, and patients and staff had at times had to ride on trucks to reach the facility. Calls for action Experts say hospitals need data to mitigate and adapt their health services to prevent disru...

13 Dec 2023

Thousands of hospitals at high risk from climate change, warns report

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