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Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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Water Stress Magnifies Drought’s Negative Impacts throughout the United States

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • climate change
  • water risk
Drought affected corn crops in Texas in August 2013. Photo credit: USDA, Flickr
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • climate change
  • water risk
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Injecting Urgency into the World Bank's Climate Change Efforts

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • multilateral development banks
•	Plans for the Metro Colombo Urban Development project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, acknowledge that the metro area is highly vulnerable to flooding. Photo credit: Travlr, Flickr 2006
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • multilateral development banks
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Designed for the Future?

Amidst California’s Drought, an Opportunity for Action

  • climate change
  • drought
  • climate impacts
The majority of California is currently blanketed in "extreme drought." Photo credit: Amber Tsuchida, Flickr
  • climate change
  • drought
  • climate impacts

5 Big Energy Stories of 2013

  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
President Barack Obama at the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Q&A with African Risk Capacity: How Innovative Financing Models Can Build Climate Change Resilience

  • Climate
  • drought
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
A Tanzania farmer shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT
  • Climate
  • drought
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • extreme weather

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

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Linking Sustainability and Poverty Eradication

  • Climate
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

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
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Outcomes of Johannesburg

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