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...flood recovery efforts in southern Brazil. As talks on climate finance intensify ahead of the two summits, the NDB’s role in supporting sustainable development is gaining significance. “The creation o...

2 Jun 2025

United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell in Brazil Feb 2025

...floods, and wildfires all over them." While he acknowledged that developing countries and vulnerable communities tend to be the hardest hit by the climate crisis, Stiell drew on the recent example of ...

6 Feb 2025

...floods to wildfires – often hit women the hardest. New research published this May in The Lancet found that even in wealthy European countries, women died at nearly twice the rate as men from extreme ...

18 Sep 2024

Developing countries in Asia with the lowest indicators of socioeconomic growth spend double the amount on repaying national debt as they receive in climate finance, according to a report by a London-...

17 Oct 2024

...flood events makes it highly vulnerable to climate change, saw its debt increase dramatically over the last five years forcing it to declare bankruptcy in 2022. Laos, the poorest of the Asian countri...

6 Oct 2023

Only a few months ago, a headline like “United States sets tariffs of up to 3,521 per cent on solar panels from Southeast Asia” could have been dismissed as satire. Today, it’s nothing special, one of...

26 May 2025

Women are often on the frontlines of protecting Latin America's crucial biodiversity, from guarding rivers against pollution to keeping illegal gold miners and oil companies at bay in the Amazon rain...

11 Nov 2024

...floods ravaging his farm. "It either doesn't rain or it rains so much that it floods. We get just one yield every year. It wasn't like this when I was growing up," Pathak told Context. Now he leases h...

22 Nov 2023

Heat, storms, floods, fires – Asia is highly vulnerable to climate risk, but massively underinsured against it. This trend is putting the wallets and livelihoods of billions in jeopardy. Last month, ...

15 Feb 2024

...flooding of the Daquan River has become increasingly common. After the flood of 2012 seriously affected the caves, better flood-control measures were implemented. These included reinforcing the riverb...

1 Nov 2023

As the future plastics treaty enters its final round of negotiations at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) in Busan, its success depends on the integrity of its decision-making processe...

28 Nov 2024

The Humboldt Current runs northwards along Chile’s coast, bringing cold, nutrient-rich water from Antarctica and the ocean depths to the surface and creating a bountiful ‘blue food’ ecosystem. But cli...

22 Nov 2024

Singapore skyline downtown near Marina Bay

...flooding, Horton said. "This is information that will affect every single one of you – the air that you breathe, the water that you drink and the food that you eat – but you won't find it anywhere on ...

24 Oct 2024

...floods, for example.” When the wind doesn’t blow Climate change is complicated, and while it is clearly intensifying wind speeds during extreme storms, the overall global daily trend is contrary to th...

6 Nov 2025

...floods in China and drought in India, reached US$65 billion in 2023. Pollution from burning fossil fuels kills one in five people globally, with a greater proportion of pollution-related deaths occurr...

22 Oct 2024

...floods of 2023 severely impacted them wiping out cattle and livelihoods, with landslides claiming 100 deaths across the state. Forest fires are also a growing concern in Uttarakhand, with numbers soar...

21 Feb 2024

...floods and cyclone control as well as sharing of water resources. According to the rules of procedure of the JRC, at least four meetings should be held in a year, which would have meant that 208 shoul...

10 May 2024

...flood and storms, while potentially polluting water sources through waste disposal and excavation activities. Lim noted that the bank has applied a “double materiality” lens to its nature-related disc...

22 Mar 2025

...floods, droughts and deadly heat. But, taking a grim glass-half-full approach, he could see one silver lining to the blackout. "Frankly, the ban is also relief from the overwhelmingly bad news about t...

12 Mar 2024

...floods on their work and the distress they feel. Ecologist Daniella Teixeira has also written about her “immense grief” at the impact of bushfires on the species she was studying. "I grieved not only ...

8 May 2024

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