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Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable

Floods are becoming fiercer and more frequent—and sometimes catastrophic. Across Asia, where millions of households still depend on farming for their livelihoods, extreme weather is causing increasing...

14 May 2020

Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable

Antarctica melts under its hottest days on record

News / Carbon & Climate

State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2021

...flooding, catastrophic wildfires, storms and drought. Areas home to 1.8 billion people saw their warmest year on record during 2021, with 25 countries — including China, South Korea, Bangladesh and Ni...

18 Jan 2022

State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2021

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Nature by the numbers

When Cyclone Amphan came barrelling up the Bay of Bengal this past May, South Asia’s first named storm of the year appeared to pose a massive threat to the people who live on the coastal floodplains ...

12 Aug 2020

Nature by the numbers

News / Policy & Finance

7 countries that shook up the world in 2020

...flooding and severe coastal inundation that includes waves up to 10 metres high. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama highlighted the links between climate change, the health of the world’s oceans and ris...

21 Dec 2020

7 countries that shook up the world in 2020

Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Explainer: Is tree planting as good for the Earth as we believe?

...floods in the late 1990s that killed more than 4,000 people, the Chinese government embarked on the most extensive tree-planting effort the world had ever seen. The Grain for Green program (GFGP) laun...

14 May 2021

Explainer: Is tree planting as good for the Earth as we believe?

rainforest in Lake Sentarum National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

Natural regeneration: when to let forests restore themselves

...flooding. The program will make 15.9 million pounds ($21.7 million) available in its first year to “provide greater financial incentives for landowners and farmers to plant and manage trees,” accordin...

19 Oct 2021

Natural regeneration: when to let forests restore themselves

News / Carbon & Climate

Threatened mangrove forests won’t protect coasts

...floods could be costing the world’s nations US$1 trillion a year in economic damage. Geographers have argued for decades that natural protection is the most efficient way of saving lives and settlemen...

18 Jun 2020

Threatened mangrove forests won’t protect coasts

News / Policy & Finance

Tiger habitat endangered by Malaysian royals’ mining plans

...floods, which often accompany deforestation. The mining project is due to last two years, but the damage will persist long after. The EIA recommends necessary land rehabilitation to combat continued e...

12 Jul 2021

Tiger habitat endangered by Malaysian royals’ mining plans

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change impacts in Bangladesh show how geography, wealth and culture affect vulnerability

...floods in 1998 I waded chest-deep through floodwaters in Darsana, in southwestern Bangladesh, watching out for dangerous snakes, just to buy rice and kerosene for my family. In 2019, months before the...

13 Feb 2020

Climate change impacts in Bangladesh show how geography, wealth and culture affect vulnerability

Podcasts / Green Buildings

Building retrofits: the underrated weapon in the fight to decarbonise cities

...floods, rising sea levels, and then these things are no actually irreversible in our lifetime, and then they are going to get worse. So staying on those targets to keep two degrees centigrade limit ar...

6 Jun 2022

Building retrofits: the underrated weapon in the fight to decarbonise cities

News / Cities

Green space in cities can bring considerable health benefits for communities, but access is unequal

...flooding. Once a dumping ground for trash and industrial pollution in Globeville, the development of Platte Farm Open Space was a 14-year journey — a collaborative effort between the community membe...

26 Mar 2021

Green space in cities can bring considerable health benefits for communities, but access is unequal

News / Food & Agriculture

Thai landfill turned into urban farm to feed poor during pandemic

...flooding in cities. While land in cities is scarce and expensive, rooftops and spaces below expressways and viaducts can be repurposed, said landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom, who designed Asia...

8 Jan 2021

Thai landfill turned into urban farm to feed poor during pandemic

News / Cities

To avoid future pandemics, reverse the destruction of ecosystems

...flood control and climate regulation, food, medicines and much more. It puts mining alongside timber extraction, settlements and agricultural expansion as leading to deforestation and forest degradat...

24 Mar 2021

To avoid future pandemics, reverse the destruction of ecosystems

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines

...Floodway, an artificially constructed waterway built to mitigate flood risk. The typhoon dumped one month’s worth of rain in the Manila metro area in fewer than 24 hours. Lives, property and possessio...

7 Jan 2020

What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate constitutionalism

...floods and droughts) that previously had been an accepted part of life. “ Without a shared understanding of where individual rights end and collective responsibility begins, any systematic transforma...

15 Apr 2021

Climate constitutionalism

News / Energy

Bangladesh’s half-hearted move away from coal slowed by poor planning and lobbying: Experts

...floods and cyclones by 2050. The number of countries making net-zero emissions pledges continues to grow, yet these announcements fall well short of what is required to give the world a chance of capp...

29 Jun 2021

Bangladesh’s half-hearted move away from coal slowed by poor planning and lobbying: Experts

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Unleashing the climate market

...flood in India, owing to glacial melt, and the wave of Category 4 hurricanes that struck Honduras in November. With a per capita carbon footprint that is 4-5 times larger than the average low- or midd...

16 Mar 2021

Unleashing the climate market

News / Cities

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

...floods, however, casualties from extreme heat draw less attention, she added. "If there's flooding and people die, it's immediately in the news. But if they die due to extreme heat it's harder to get ...

13 Feb 2020

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

News / Carbon & Climate

Sandy beaches may succumb to rising seas

...flood low-lying coasts. And – according to new European research in the journal Nature Climate Change – what is true for Australia is true for much of the rest of the world. How much beach is lost wil...

6 Mar 2020

Sandy beaches may succumb to rising seas

News / Cities

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

...flooding there, displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in rural areas and towns in the districts of Belet Weyne, Baardheere and Berdale. These climate migrants traversed barren an...

22 Feb 2021

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

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