This project will train up to 36 emerging climate change leaders in the field of adaptation finance, which funds efforts to adapt to climate change impacts.
Pakistan's devastating 2010 Indus basin floods left approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's land area underwater and directly affected about 20 million people.
This research aims to address how to expand the spectrum of options available for private sector financing of climate adaptation. It will also explore ways to leverage private finance to scale up adaptation efforts in developing countries.
Chilika is a brackish coastal lagoon and biodiversity hotspot situated in the eastern state of Orissa, India.
RUAF (Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) was established in 1999 in response to an expressed need on the part of organizations and local governments in the South for a mechanism for exchanging research data and local experien
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) an estimated 300 million city dwellers generate 225 000 tons of solid waste every day (Pan. American Health Organization, 2004). The number of people living off solid waste is growing rapidly.
About 75% of the Latin American population now lives in urban areas. Since 1986 urban poverty has been on the increase and there are more urban than rural poor, a trend that is already affecting food security and availability.
From September to November of 1997, raging fires in Indonesia pumped enough smoke into the air to blanket the entire region in haze, reaching as far north as southern Thailand and the Philippines, with Malaysia and Singapore being particularly aff
For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas.