Climate Change

CARICOM Leaders Take Steps to Tackle Crime, Climate, Trade and Food Crises

By Alison Kentish
CARICOM leaders wrapped up a crucial meeting on February 21, reaffirming their commitment to tackling pressing regional challenges with unity and resolve. From crime and security to education, trade and climate change, the leaders highlighted the need for decisive action amid global uncertainties.

Global Heating in The Coldest Place on Earth

By Raja Venkatapathy Mani
It was 7:30 a.m. I got ready the fastest I could, adrenaline kicking in, curiosity and excitement peaking. I rushed out of my cabin, opened the big exit door, and there in front of me was the first visual of the majestic white continent - Antarctica.

Blamed for ‘Causing’ Droughts: Zimbabwe’s LGBTQI Community Faces Climate Crisis Head-on

By Farai Shawn Matiashe
Takudzwa Saruwaka is hoeing weeds in a cowpea field in eastern Zimbabwe one morning in February, trying to beat torrential rains threatening from the gray clouds above.

Food, Water, Crime, Climate Change: CARICOM Leaders Begin 48th Conference with Commitment to Joint Action on Critical, Common Concerns

By Alison Kentish
Leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are meeting in Bridgetown from Feb. 19-21, as the world grapples with multiple crises, including escalating geopolitical conflicts, climate change and rising food insecurity.

Only Political Will Can End World Hunger: Food Isn’t Scarce, but Many People Can’t Access It

By Jennifer Clapp
History has shown us again and again that, so long as inequality goes unchecked, no amount of technology can ensure people are well fed.

A Global Retreat from Solidarity

By Jessica Corredor Villamil
The world is witnessing a dangerous retreat from international solidarity by Global Minority countries. From Washington to Brussels, governments are slashing funds that sustain human rights, democracy, and humanitarian initiatives.

Why a Global Tech Fund for the Poorest Countries is a Smart Investment

By Deodat Maharaj
The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development could catalyse coordinated action to close the financing gap and set the stage for a STI-driven transformation in the world’s poorest countries.

Development Effectiveness & the Quality of Financing: Towards a More Holistic Approach at Seville

By Annika Otterstedt and Luca De Fraia
When world leaders gather in Seville for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in June, they will be meeting at a pivotal moment: one defined by mounting systemic risks, a multiplication of crises, and proliferation and fragmentation of development co-operation actors and funds.

Human Insecurity from Climate Change on Vanuatu and Guam

By Anselm Vogler

 
The climate crisis is severely endangering human well-being. While the climate security nexus is omnipresent in national security strategies and on international institutions’ agendas, political responses remain insufficient and are often problematic. Among other issues, related policies often struggle with siloization or a focus on symptoms instead of root causes.

Not an Option. A Call for Action

By Yasmine Sherif
A global alert is not an option. It requires global action. Over the past three years, the number of crisis-impacted school-aged children in need of urgent quality education support has grown by an alarming 35 million, according to Education Cannot Wait’s new Global Estimates Report.

Climatic Change Pushes Pakistan’s Promising Trout Fish Farming Towards Brink of Collapse

By Adeel Saeed
Pakistan’s once-thriving trout fish farming industry, a vital source of livelihood for communities in the country’s mountainous northern region, is now on the verge of collapse due to the devastating impacts of climate change.

Namibia’s Drought Crisis: Building Resilience for Women and Girls

By Hopolang Phororo
Communities in the Kavango West region of northern Namibia have firsthand experience of the severe impacts of climate change. The dry, cracked soil and emaciated livestock provide a constant reminder of the lack of access to water in this part of the country.

WFP, FAO Warn of the Severity of the Climate Crisis and Food Insecurity

By Oritro Karim
Over the past few years, climate shocks have become more frequent and have devastated economies and agriculture systems, exacerbating widespread malnutrition and hunger. It has become increasingly apparent that the utilization of sustainable agriculture practices and disaster risk management systems are crucial to fulfill growing needs as natural resources continue to dwindle.

The Challenge of the “Carbon Aristocracy”

By Philippe Benoit
For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the “aristocracy.” The term comes from the Ancient Greek words “aristos”, meaning best, and “kratia,” meaning power. As a result of long and hard-fought democratic struggles, these aristocracies have largely dwindled worldwide (albeit, not everywhere).

‘Areas Essential to the Global Climate Are Being Threatened by Economic Projects’

By CIVICUS

 
CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement Extinction Rebellion Rutshuru.

Explainer: Why Glaciers Are Alive, Life-Giving and Worth Preserving

By Tanka Dhakal
The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to promote awareness about the role of glaciers, snow and ice. The climate system and global hydrological cycle are dependent on accumulated water in solid form as glaciers, snow and ice. Because of the global temperature rise and its impact on the Earth’s cryosphere, socio-economic and environmental effects are being observed.

Report Exposes Silent Global Emergency as More Crises-Affected Children Need Urgent Education Support

By Joyce Chimbi
A report released today on the International Day of Education sounds alarm as the number of school-aged children in crisis worldwide requiring urgent support to access quality education reaches a staggering 234 million—an estimated increase of 35 million over the past three years fueled by intensifying armed conflict, forced displacements, more frequent and severe weather and climatic events, and other crises.

Let the Kite Fly High

By Sulan Chen
The global plastics negotiation process, launched in 2022 under a resolution by the UN Environment Assembly, represents an unprecedented effort to combat the escalating plastic pollution crisis.

Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing over eight trillion dollars yearly!

Still Hopes for a Future Plastic Treaty– But it Won’t be Easy

By Simone Galimberti
The last few weeks of 2024 were a disappointment for those who strongly believed that planet Earth is in need of bold actions. First, there were the frustration stemming from what could be defined at minimum as unconvincing outcomes of both COP 16 on Biodiversity and COP 29 on Climate.

Photo Essay: Kashmir’s Ingenious Climate-Responsive Architecture.

By Umar Manzoor Shah
India's average temperature has risen by 0.7°C since 1901, bringing more frequent and intense heat waves, erratic rainfall patterns, and a marked decline in monsoon consistency since the 1950s.
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