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Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women

  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • land rights
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
woman-planting-cabbage
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • land rights
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Innovación y preparación: La respuesta de caficultores costarricenses a los desafíos del cambio climático y la competencia en los mercados

  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • agriculture
Don Armando Navarro explica las medidas de adaptación que ha implementado en su finca, como la construcción de terrazas. Fotografía: Stefanie Tye
  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • agriculture

Coffee Farmers in Costa Rica Are Brewing Up Solutions to Climate Change and Competition

  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • agriculture
Don Armando Navarro explains the climate adaptation measures he has implemented on his coffee farm. Photo by Stefanie Tye
  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • agriculture

4 Things to Know About the Global Adaptation Challenge

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Economics
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate change
Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Economics
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate change
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Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • extreme weather
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate finance
  • hurricanes
A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • extreme weather
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate finance
  • hurricanes
Insights

For Small Businesses in Africa, Climate Resilience Is an Economic Opportunity

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • restoration
  • Business
Herders with cattle in Tigray, Ethiopia. Mohammed Bakarr / GEF
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • restoration
  • Business
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RELEASE: Helping Developing Countries Track and Report Their Climate Actions

  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
Insights

A Global Look at Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Programs

  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
At least 40 countries—both developed and developing—currently have mandatory emissions reporting programs in place. (Seoul, South Korea) Photo by tetan88/Flickr.
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
Insights

Post-2020 Emissions-Reduction Contribution: Which Time Frame Should We Choose?

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
Exceeding a target global temperature rise below 2°C would put the world at an increased risk for climate change impacts. Photo credit: UN, Flickr 2008
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
Insights

UNFCCC in Bonn: Bringing Transparency, Understanding, and Clarity to Countries’ Post-2020 Climate Contributions

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
Some countries will submit their post-2020 emissions-reduction plans in the first quarter of 2015. Photo credit: Ben West, Flickr
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
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