Sustainable Development – Page 32

Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath Evidence of meaningful implementation of the Gender Action Plan for EBRD and GCF’s Green Cities Framework – not found Knowledge is power. Informing women and men about the opportunities and risks of development projects should be the first step to empowering them to prote

COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Education , Gender , Health , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/14/2020

Millions of children may return to a school with nowhere to wash their hands

Children returning to school this September may find a very different classroom to the ones they left, with socially distanced desks and a renewed focus on handwashing. But in thousands of schools around the world, even this most basic defence against Covid-19 will be out of reach for millions of st

Business , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Governance , Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/13/2020

China’s economy is recovering quickly, as are its carbon emissions

Wang Yan Big investments in traditional infrastructures are driving the economy, but a path to green growth remains open Macroeconomic data for the first half of 2020, published on 16 July by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, revealed a striking recovery. Second quarter GDP growth turned po

Education , Science & Technology , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 08/13/2020

Robot hikes the Andes to cross Peru’s digital divide

Zoraida Portillo Kipi the robot is made from upcycled materials. Her backpack is a solar panel and she has been programmed to explain how it transforms solar energy into electricity, while encouraging students to make their own innovations using local materials. In a remote village of the Peruvian A

Biodiversity , COVID-19 , Food , Forests , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Migration , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/12/2020

If food is the vaccine, forests conserved by indigenous communities is what we need the most!

Ranjan Panda & Pragati Prava The Covid pandemic has aggravated the hunger crisis in the world. Conflicts, climate change and economic downturn had already been increasing the number of acutely food-insecure people in the world over the past four years. In 2019, according to estimates

Biodiversity , Business , Disasters , Economy , Environment , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 08/11/2020

Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation

Malavika Vyawahare Thousands of species around the pristine lagoons are at risk of drowning in a sea of pollution, with dire consequences for Mauritius’ economy, food security, and health A ship that ran aground on a coral reef has leaked about 900 tons of fuel oil into the waters off the southeas

Disasters , Environment , Governance , Migration , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/09/2020

Assam, an ignored tale of failed flood management

Mayuri Purkayastha Out of 33 districts, every year 28 districts are devastated by floods which cause tremendous damage to lives and livelihoods. Growing up in Assam was different in a lot of ways. It was far removed from the concept of the concrete jungle in many ways, one could see green hillocks f

Aid , COVID-19 , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development / 08/07/2020

The international humanitarian response to COVID-19

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

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