The report examines the implications of climate change for Lesotho’s future development and economy, focusing particularly on the different water infrastructure investments being considered by the Government of Lesotho. Through assessing the performance of the water management system the study tests how different adaptation strategies would affect water availability for different sectors under a wide range of possible future climatic conditions up to 2050.
Report conclusions include:
As the climate continues to change, communities in rural areas are experiencing economic and productive challenges caused by constant adaptations and transformation, specially individual farmers.
A recent report - On the Frontline: Climate Change & Rural Communities - by The Climate Council reveals that climate change is likely to worsen the systemic disadvantages suffered by rural and regional communities, and further widen the gap between rural and urban areas. It also highlights that the increase in extreme weather events is disproportionately affecting those in rural areas, with serious social, health and economic impacts.
With #Photo4Climate hashtag you have showed us how Climate Change is affecting #Rural areas. Daryll Peter Griffith is this week's finalist with a great caption exposing the consequences of extreme warm weather. Congratulations!
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Photo Credit: Daryll Peter Griffith
Members of the Understanding Risk Community will convene in Venice, Italy for the fourth biennial UR Global Forum, held over five days on 16-20 May. This year’s Forum, Building evidence for action, will convene attendees from all over the world, with interest, either professionally or personally, in the field of disaster risk identification.
In New York, on April 22, governments will sign the new Paris Climate Change Agreement en route to it coming into force as millions of people around the globe mark annual Earth Day, or International Mother Earth Day.
Earth Day’s theme this year is focused on trees with the aim of mobilizing nearly eight billion plantings, or one for every man, woman and child alive by 2020—together we can maybe do it sooner! The link between the Paris Agreement and trees is clear—forests will be key allies for combating climate change and meeting the long term goal of restoring the ecological balance of planet Earth by the second half of the century.
Trees and forests are also crucial for assisting efforts to meet the new Sustainable Development Goals given their role is absorbing carbon, cleaning and cooling the air; acting as natural water pumps to sustain river flows; stabilizing soils; recycling nutrients for agriculture and supporting habitats for wildlife to name just a few of their gifts to humanity.
So let’s get planting now, in the run up to April 22 and beyond.
You can also simply hug your favorite tree, like UNFCCC spokesperson Nick Nuttall. Photo Credit: UNFCCC.
Our asks are simple, we want to create a buzz around the signing of the Paris Agreement; let governments know that everyone is right behind them while making a very practical difference on the ground in terms of a healthier, less risky world.
We are asking everyone to do one or all of three things:
1) Plant a tree for the Paris Agreement signing and maybe attach a little plaque
2) Hug a tree for the Paris Agreement signing
3) Sketch or photograph your favorite tree for the Paris Agreement signing
Then post images and texts about your good work on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media network using the hashtags #ParisAgreement and #Trees4Earth, along with #EarthDay2016 if there is space.
Go the Earth Day web site and register your event and learn about more cool things you can do.
And tell governments, local authority leaders, business leaders, friends and family why you have done it and get them on board—you could even use the hashtags #ParisAgreement #Means4Me when writing to them.
Join Earth Day Network’s 'Trees for the Earth’.
This study on Poland is part of the World Bank’s series of low-carbon growth studies. It poses the question of how Poland, an EU member state, an industrialized ‘Annex I’ country for the purposes of international climate discussions,1 and an OECD member, can transition to a low emissions economy as successfully as it underwent transition to a market economy in the early 1990s.
This is the story of how one major global development institution, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), recognized and responded to the challenge of climate change, and was itself transformed in the experience. Addressing climate change affected IFC at every organizational level, from high-level policy issues such as the role to take in supporting the use of fossil fuel, to highly technical and operational issues, such as tracking greenhouse gas emissions, and evaluating investments while taking into account
This book analyzes the risks to Nigeria's development prospects that climate change poses to agriculture, livestock, and water management. These sectors were chosen because they are central to achieving the growth, livelihood, and environmental objectives of Vision 20: 2020; and because they are already vulnerable to current climate variability. Since other sectors might also be affected, the findings of this research provide lower-bound estimates of overall climate change impacts.
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and the World Bank have agreed to carry out a Climate Change Assessment (CCA) within the framework of the Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Nigeria (2010-13). The CCA includes an analysis of options for low-carbon development in selected sectors, including power, oil and gas, transport, and agriculture.
This report 'Turning the right corner - ensuring development through a low carbon transport sector' emphasizes that developing countries need to transition to a low carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future. Furthermore, it argues that this transition can be affordable if countries combine policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with broader sector reforms aimed at reducing local air pollution, road safety risks, and congestion.
Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction.
