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India’s Watershed Development Boosts Food Security, Improves Livelihoods

  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • water risk
India has long-battled its water scarcity issues throughout an approach called watershed development. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • water risk
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How Civil Society Groups Can Help Expand Energy Efficiency

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • public participation
Involving civil society organizations in the energy efficiency standards and labeling process could increase the uptake of energy-efficient appliances. Photo credit: Acumen Fund, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • public participation

4 Reasons Assessing Governance Matters for Forests and People

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
Conducting an analysis of governance strengths and weaknesses can be a critical first step towards advancing forest governance reforms. Photo Credit: World Bank, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
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3 Ways Multinational Corporations Can Help Vulnerable Communities Adapt to Climate Change

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Business
  • climate change
  • climate finance
Poor communities in developing nations are especially vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts. Photo credit: P. Casier, CGIAR
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Business
  • climate change
  • climate finance

COP 19 Made Small Steps Forward, but We Need Bolder Leaps

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
A key area of discussion at COP 19 was how to address losses and damages from climate change impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to. Photo credit: Jörg Dietze, Flickr
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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Loss and Damage: Elements for Successful Negotiations at COP 19 in Warsaw

  • International Climate Action
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Losses and damages could over time include the submergence of mega-cities, the collapse of major ecosystems, and the loss of entire island nations. Photo credit: Philip Roeland, Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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Looking in the Pipes of Climate Adaptation Finance

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
A climate-smart agriculture project in Ghana. Photo credit: C Peterson, CIAT/CCAFS
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

Global Efforts to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change Must Come Together

  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
This week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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Climate Equity

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How Civil Society Groups Improved Electricity in Thailand

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • environmental democracy
  • Energy Access
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • environmental democracy
  • Energy Access

Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation

4 Issues to Watch: Recommendations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

Turning Climate Action into a Reality

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate Resilience

New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental Information in Asia

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
  • human rights
  • pollution
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
  • human rights
  • pollution
  • public participation
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On Climate Change Adaptation, Put Local Communities First

  • Climate Equity
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • public participation
  • Climate Equity
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • public participation
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