Abstract In April 2020, the World Food Programme announced that without drastic change, the number of people facing food crises in the world might double in 2020 from 135 to 265 million people as a result of COVID-19 (World Food Programme, 2020). Under-resourced health, education, and transportation...
This was such a fun podcast - Jo Puri talked with Tripp Williams about innovation and story-telling around climate change. Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) #Adaptation #climatechange Season 2: What can we do to mitigate the effect...
This mini e-course aims to increase the involvement of climate experts from developing countries in the IPCC reports. This mini e-course aims to increase the involvement of climate experts from developing countries in the IPCC reports. The course enables first-time reviewers and early career climate...
About this course The Climate Change International Legal Regime course presents the causes and effects of climate change, describes the mechanisms established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and explains the key provisions and commitments under the Kyoto...
A brief e-learning course that addresses gender concepts, the disparate impacts of disasters on persons based on gender, and how to design disaster risk management approaches to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. An e-learning course to help you understand how your disaster risk...
The training modules were developed within the framework of the United Nations Development Account (UNDA) project on “Developing the Capacities of the Arab Countries for Climate Change Adaptation by Applying IWRM Tools”. The modules build upon work conducted under the Regional Initiative for the...
For the past eight years, the Best of UNICEF Research annual competition, managed by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, has invited UNICEF colleagues around the world to submit their best and most recent examples of quality research for children. The aim is to promote research best practices...
The Global Development Commons: "Youth Innovations to Tackle Climate Change" Background The Global Development Commons hosted its second youth webinar. Youth innovators from Brazil, Canada and Jordan shared details on their projects to tackle climate change in their local communities. To learn more...
Youth leaders have an important role to play in promoting human dignity and our common home by instilling the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement, and Pope Francis’ new encyclical and Fratelli Tutti – also in the context of Laudato Si’ – through awareness, expertise...