Key messages Municipalities are key players in climate action and can make significant contributions to Nepal’s mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts. Rapidly urbanising Nepalese...
With extreme weather events increasing in their magnitude and frequency, it is critical to reduce the risk of exposure and vulnerability, especially in the education sector. Katharine Vincent (Kulima...
Governments seek to return to pre-Covid levels of economic activity, and there is much discussion on how to build back 'greener'. Lauren Hermanus looks at what is happening to achieve a green Covid...
Premsagar Tasgaonkar, Komal Modhave and Yogesh Shinde from the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), India describe how they have established a system to warn farmers in rural areas when heat levels...
Urban floods are becoming more common as a result of increasing urbanisation, poor urban planning, and climate change. A new report by PlanAdapt explores how the cities of Cape Town, Durban, Mombasa...
There is considerable potential for more locally-led anticipatory action to prepare people for extreme weather and climate events and avoid loss and damage – reports Myriam Castaneda Solares of the...
It is not easy to communicate the effects of climate change to different audiences. This is further complicated by social, cultural, political and economic challenges. María José Pacha and Gabriela...
In the villages of Uttar Pradesh, India, a local NGO has set up community grain bank services and has mobilised farming families to grow their own vegetables and ensure food security during the...
In El Alto Fucha, an informal settlement in Bogota, Colombia, a community-based organisation is assisting communities to start agro-ecological gardens to ensure food security during the Covid-19...
Key messages Cities play a major role in local climate action and meeting national and international climate change commitments. Bangladesh has several national policies that support local resilience...