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Governance
Africa
Insights
September 15, 2020

INSIDER: Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation into Development: Three Lessons from Kenya

  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • INSIDER
  • water scarcity
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • adaptation
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • food security
Herders in Kenya.
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • INSIDER
  • water scarcity
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • adaptation
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • food security
Governance
Insights
August 25, 2020

3 Climate-Resilient Food Solutions for Smallholder Farmers

  • Food
  • Climate Resilience
  • development
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • food security
Two people plowing a field.
  • Food
  • Climate Resilience
  • development
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • food security
Climate
Oceania
Insights
January 10, 2020

4 Things to Know About Australia’s Wildfires and Their Impacts on Forests

  • Forests
  • wildfires
  • drought
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
Australia fires
  • Forests
  • wildfires
  • drought
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
Water
Asia Africa
Insights
October 31, 2019

Responding to Day Zero Equitably: Water Crisis Lessons from Cape Town and Chennai

  • Cities
  • drought
  • India
  • South Africa
  • water
Cape Town’s largest reservoir, Theewaterskloof
  • Cities
  • drought
  • India
  • South Africa
  • water
Finance
Asia
Insights
October 10, 2019

More Water Shortages Mean Energy Investors Need New Ways to Manage Drought Risk

  • water scarcity
  • coal
  • drought
  • Energy
  • finance
  • India
  • investment
A thermal power plant in Rajasthan. Flickr/vedantlath
  • water scarcity
  • coal
  • drought
  • Energy
  • finance
  • India
  • investment
Forests
Insights
March 7, 2019

California Made Headlines, but 5 Other U.S. States Also Broke Wildfire Records in 2018

  • wildfires
  • deforestation
  • drought
  • climate change
  • Forests
Yosemite wildfire
  • wildfires
  • deforestation
  • drought
  • climate change
  • Forests
Governance
News
October 16, 2018

RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Acceleration of Climate Adaptation Solutions

  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • water scarcity
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • adaptation
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • finance
  • local impacts
  • renewable energy
  • Urban Development
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • water scarcity
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • adaptation
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • finance
  • local impacts
  • renewable energy
  • Urban Development
Governance
Latin America
Insights
September 27, 2018

12 Countries Sign Historic Agreement Guaranteeing Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • access to justice
  • access to information
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • public participation
  • Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • access to justice
  • access to information
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • public participation
Latin America
Latin America
Insights
September 25, 2018

Help for São Paulo’s Complex Water Woes: Protect and Restore Forests

  • Forests
  • Water
  • Climate Resilience
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • Brazil
  • Cities
  • forest restoration
  • water
The Atibainha reservoir in Cantareira System in São Paulo during drought.
  • Forests
  • Water
  • Climate Resilience
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • Brazil
  • Cities
  • forest restoration
  • water
Water
Insights
August 27, 2018

Water Is a Source of Growing Tension and Violence in the Middle East

  • Aqueduct
  • water scarcity
  • drought
  • water
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
  • water scarcity
  • drought
  • water
  • water risk
Governance
Insights
July 2, 2018

The Human Cost of Climate Change

  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • drought
  • Climate
  • stormwater
  • water stress
Mother and child at flooded home in Bangladesh.
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • drought
  • Climate
  • stormwater
  • water stress
Forests
Latin America
Insights
June 21, 2018

In Brazil’s Drought-ravaged Caatinga Ecosystem, Small Farmers Know Best

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • restoration
The landscape of Caatinga, the semi-arid but extraordinarily biodiverse region of Brazil
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • restoration
Latin America
Insights
June 13, 2018

What if Citizens Set City Budgets? An Experiment That Captivated the World—Participatory Budgeting—Might Be Abandoned in its Birthplace

  • cities for all
  • Brazil
  • Cities
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
  • cities for all
  • Brazil
  • Cities
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
Water
Europe Asia
Insights
April 11, 2018

It's Not Just Cape Town: 4 Shrinking Reservoirs to Watch

  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • maps
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
Al Massira dam, Morocco
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • maps
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
Forests
Africa
Insights
March 13, 2018

This Man Wants to Pull 60,000 Rwandans Out of Poverty by Planting Trees

  • deforestation
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • forest restoration
  • Forests
Planting trees in Rwanda
  • deforestation
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • forest restoration
  • Forests

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