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The challenges faced by different stakeholders to influence local disaster policy in Felipe Carrillo Puerto

Tuesday, December 6 2011 / Eldis

The Mexican Federal Government is committed to integrating a risk management focus at all levels of government. However, municipal capacity to develop ...

CLIMATE CHANGE - TAKE ACTION NOW! A guide to supporting the local actions of children and young people with special emphasis on girls and young women

Tuesday, December 6 2011 / CDKN Global

A guide to supporting the local actions of children and young people, with special emphasis on girls and young women. This guide was developed by ECI in cooperation with UNICEF,

Postcard from Geneva: The green economy and sustainable development – bringing back the social dimension

Tuesday, December 6 2011 / Overseas Development Institute - Theme: Climate Change

'UNRISD ((the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) Deputy Director Peter Utting had the last word. It’s vital that practitioners, activists and researchers break out of their disciplinary silos:

NEPAL: Praying Against Climate Change

Monday, December 5 2011 / Sudeshna Sarkar*

There are gasps from the audience as a series of shocking images flash across the screen: human hands eaten away by arsenic, the carcass of a cow so emaciated that it looks

What can we learn from droughts in Malawi?

Monday, December 5 2011 / Eldis

Extreme climate events such as droughts are very common in Malawi and yet their impacts are generally not well factored into the long term National Development ...

CLIMATE CHANGE: Kashmiri Farmers Left High and Dry

Monday, December 5 2011 / Athar Parvaiz*

Sammad Sheikh of Tangchekh village in north Kashmir cannot understand why the rice fields that his family cultivated for generations are drying up.

Food processing curbs climate losses for Cameroon's women farmers

Monday, December 5 2011 / Reuters AlertNet Climate

Turning crops into durable goods helps avoid post-harvest losses when bad weather delays getting to market

OP-ED: Can Finance Provide the Crown Jewels of a Durban Climate Accord?

Sunday, December 4 2011 / Tim Ash Vie *

As climate talks get underway in Durban, South Africa this week, progress on a Green Climate Fund is one of the hottest, most contentious tickets in town. It is also one of

CoP-17 side-event: ‘New paradigm’ for using climate information in Africa

Saturday, December 3 2011 / CDKN Africa

1 December, CoP-17, Durban – CORDEX-Africa programme presented at CoP-17 side event as a potential new paradigm for analysing and using climate change information in Africa. The programme involves African

Latin American Integration Does Not Extend to Climate Change**

Saturday, December 3 2011 / Emilio Godoy * - Tierramérica

The foreseeable absence of binding agreements to stabilise the global climate could give rise to increased regional cooperation to help Latin American countries adapt to the severe effects of climate

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