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A new report by WWF and adelphi looks at the complex nexus between nature and security. The report outlines four pathways through which environmental degradation and biodiversity loss act as drivers...

Summary The world is facing a triple emergency of climate change, nature loss, and rising poverty and inequality. These interdependent emergencies do not just represent three pressing challenges to...

Drafted by C. Kelly A summary of top-level environmental issues to support recovery in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines following the La Soufriere volcanic eruption. The Environment and Disaster...

Nearly 200 UK humanitarian, development and domestic charity leaders and leaders, including The National Federation of Women’s Institutes, Save the Children, Greenpeace UK, UNICEF UK and Friends of...

Lead Authors: Liam Fee, Montse Gibert, Ryan Bartlett, Pasquale Capizzi, Radley Horton, Corey Lesk Contributing Authors: Mozaharul Alam, Annette Wallgren EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This assessment analyzes the...

With almost half of global GDP potentially coming from high water risk areas by 2050, the Water Risk Filter Scenarios will help companies and investors turn risk into resilience. With climate change...

Objective and Development Process UN Environment led the development of this Collaborative Framework for Food Systems Transformation (FS Framework) in the context of the SFS Programme, with the...

By Ryan Bartlett, Pasquale Capizzi, Miriam Kennedy, Lewis Fox-James, Sara Dethier, Austin Brown, Ian Carradice, Callum Newman and Roman Svidran With support from GIZ, WWF and Arup conducted a review...

The purpose of this guide is to support companies in setting effective site water targets that are informed by catchment context. This guide introduces three critical elements for setting effective...

Lead Authors: Liam Fee, Montse Gibert, Ryan Bartlett, Pasquale Capizzi, Radley Horton, Corey Lesk Contributing Authors: Mozaharul Alam, Annette Wallgren This assessment analyses the vulnerability of...

Introduction Gender inequality is one of the most pervasive threats to sustainable development. It has negative impacts on access to, use of and control over a wide range of resources, and on the...

Key messages: Nature-based solutions provide an opportunity to better integrate the agendas of climate action, disaster risk reduction and biodiversity conservation into a coherent and holistic...

Letter of concern regarding implementation of the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law (2012) as Amended by The Law Amending the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law (2018) 16th...

Executive Summary For several years now researchers and organizations the world over have analyzed the relationship between foreseeable climate change impacts and the geostrategic issues they raise...

International, national, and local laws require compliance with environmental policy and regulatory frameworks. At the international level, the Sphere Handbook, the Code of Conduct for The...

This guide outlines ways in which adverse environmental impacts can be avoided after disasters, and good practices can be promoted. It covers sectors including settlements and land use planning...

This brief aims to help decision-makers across sectors in Myanmar incorporate climate change risks into planning and investment decisions by summarising key messages from a detailed technical...

With the current global average temperature now at around 1°C above pre-industrial levels, poor people in developing countries are already suffering devastation from climate change impacts. It is...

Over 80% of future deforestation confined to just 11 places Jakarta: Eleven places in the world – 10 of which are in the tropics – will account for over 80 per cent of forest loss globally by 2030,...

All financing sources – public and private; domestic and international – will need to be mobilized to meet the sustainable development challenges ahead. As the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts...