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Fiona Tarpey The global COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis unprecedented in its scale and scope, with particularly dire impacts in fragile and conflict settings. The crisis has also highlighted the critical role of local and frontline humanitarian responders. Yet, the international system has been slow t

Cities , COVID-19 , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/05/2020

Britain’s public toilet shame: time for equal access to decent facilities for all

Natalie Boyd Williams, University of Stirling; Heather Roxburgh, University of Stirling, and Jennifer Dickie, University of Stirling Research work exploring sustainable ways of managing human waste, pointed to an important topic for reflection post lockdown: the inadequate provision of safe, clean p

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Environment , Food , Forests , Gender , Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/05/2020

How are farmers responding to COVID-19?

Pavel Devyatkin The cases from Ecuador, Ghana and Nepal show that the impacts of the pandemic are different for women, indigenous peoples and rural populations. Forest and farm producer organizations, known as FFPOs, and the people they represent, produce 70 percent of the world’s food while using

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 08/04/2020

3 Billion Animals Died or Displaced by Australia’s Bushfire Crisis

Nearly three billion animals – mammals, reptiles, birds, and frogs – were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating 2019-20 bushfires. It’s almost three times an earlier estimate released in January. The breakdown is 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, and 51

Biodiversity , Climate , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights , Monitoring , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/02/2020

IUCN unveils Global Standards for nature based solutions

The new IUCN Global Standard will help governments, business and civil society ensure the effectiveness of nature-based solutions and maximise their potential to help address climate change, biodiversity loss and other societal challenges on a global scale. “The world is looking for durable and ef

Cities , Climate , Environment , Science & Technology , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/01/2020

Nature-Based Solutions to 21st Century Challenges

Nature Based Solutions (NBS) come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be applied across marine and terrestrial environments to solve a variety of societal challenges including mitigating climate change and enhancing the liveability of cities. In the 21st Century, society is faced with a variety

Business , Climate , COVID-19 , Economy , Environment , Labour , Sustainable Development , Transport / 07/31/2020

We’re flying less. And wild places that count on tourism dollars are starting to take notice

Dimitri Selibas Between flight shaming and a global pandemic, destinations that depend on travellers to protect ecosystems are finding themselves with fewer resources to do so. Rincon del Mar, a beachside hamlet on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, is part of a burgeoning industry that is helping to tur

Disasters , Environment , Health , Human Rights , Opinions , Sanitation , Sustainable Development , Water / 07/29/2020

Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system

Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way ahead The Bihar deluge is here again: Water levels in several rivers have risen dangerously and breached embankments at many places. North Bihar is the

Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Monitoring , Resources , Sustainable Development / 07/29/2020

HIGHEST NUMBER OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN 2019

Global Witness today revealed the highest number of land and environmental defenders murdered on record in a single year, with 212 people killed in 2019 for peacefully defending their homes and standing up to the destruction of nature. The NGO’s annual report also shed a light on the urgent r

COVID-19 , Environment , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Opinions , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 07/27/2020

Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond

It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this pandemic should therefore be based on a rights regime and people should be provided with water that is safe. It should be supplied by adhering to the

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