OVERVIEW • Countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region experience a range of natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, landslides,...
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OVERVIEW • Countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region experience a range of natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, landslides,...
Foreword Why This Guide? The Global Migration Group (GMG) has produced this publication to provide guidance to producers and users of international migration data. This project has been conducted...
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Efficient and clean cooking can reduce toxic air pollution, save lives, protect the environment, and improve livelihoods. Accelerating the transition to clean stoves and fuels...
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Review the biggest health stories from WHO in 2017. Relive some of WHO's major achievements in the past year. See the timeline here
WFP’s new Nutrition Policy details how the organization will support governments to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, particularly target 2.2, to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Building...
"I'm scared that if it ever floods at night, it will come into my house and the flood will take me away. That's one of my greatest fears" - Freddy Sei, 15 By Lin Taylor SOUTH RIVER, Vanuatu, Dec 19...
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Southern Africa continues to recover from the 2015/2016 El Niño-induced drought, which by January 2017 had affected about 41 million people across the Southern Africa Development...
Comunicado de prensa conjunto CCNUCC/OMS 12 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2017 | BONN (ALEMANIA) - Hoy, en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, la Organización Mundial de la Salud, en...
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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...
12 NOVEMBRE 2017 | BONN, ALLEMAGNE - Aujourd’hui, à la Conférence des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (COP23), l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé a lancé, en collaboration avec le...
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12 novembre 2017 – Alors que la Conférence des Nations Unies sur le climat (COP 23), à Bonn, en Allemagne, entame sa dernière semaine de négociations, la Présidence fidjienne a annoncé dimanche la...
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12 November 2017 – With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23), in Bonn, Germany, entering its final week of negotiations, the Fiji Presidency today announced the Gender Action Plan,...
Joint news release UNFCCC/WHO 12 NOVEMBER 2017 | BONN, GERMANY - Today, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23), WHO, in collaboration with the UN Climate Change secretariat and in...
A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO Around the world, CARE celebrated its anniversary in 2016, remembering that day 70 years ago when the first CARE Packages arrived in Europe, bringing food and other essential...
Climate change has far-reaching impacts on human health and well-being. Changing temperature and rainfall patterns impact crop yield, food and water security, and nutrition. The increased frequency...
Plan International participa en COP23, la conferencia de la ONU sobre cambio climático, del día 6 al 18 de noviembre, para que los gobiernos de todo el mundo hagan políticas y programas de adaptación...
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Researchers found that the Ebola was significantly more likely to emerge in areas with surrounding forest loss By Nellie Peyton DAKAR, Oct 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ebola outbreaks tend to...
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Executive summary This discussion paper demonstrates that climate-induced non-economic loss and damage (NELD) includes forms of damage that cannot be measured or compensated financially. It includes...
October 25, 2017 – Climate change may lead to an increase in malaria in certain spots around the world. But in other places, it may have little or no impact on the mosquito-borne disease, according...
When most people think about climate change, they think about extreme weather patterns, global warming and rising sea levels. Many people are aware that there are also numerous ways in which climate...