Ban Ki-moon has warned the world is on course to run out of freshwater unless greater efforts are made to improve water security.
This course organized by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at the University of Sussex aims at providing insights on how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) approaches interact with a changing climate and with development
While the United Nations may be divided on certain issues, the need to prevent conflicts over natural resources such as water, land, oil or minerals is uniting experts inside and outside the UN system.
When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation.
Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong disagreement” with some assertions in the report.
When disasters and conflicts collide. Improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention. London: Overseas Development Institute.
Cooperation for a Water Wise World – Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Report Nr. 32. SIWI, Stockholm.
The Environment and Gender Index (EGI) 2013 Pilot. Washington, D.C.