Sustainable Development – Page 75

Julie Mollins Drained peatlands lead to the significant release of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas also known colloquially as laughing gas — leading to global warming, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The authors of the study are urging increased conservation of fe

Environment , Science & Technology , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Transport / 03/30/2018

Watch: How an Indian professor is turning plastic trash into highways

Todd Reubold Plastic pollution is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. Just last week scientists writing in the journal Scientific Reports announced that the weight of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was four to 16 times more than we thought. All of this means finding ways to recycle and

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/29/2018

Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict

Pinaki Roy The impact of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees have been devastating to the forest cover and water availability in Cox’s Bazar, fuelling resentments with the local population A bunch of tree roots on his head, Ramzan Ali was coming back towards his polythene and bamboo hut at

Cities , Climate , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/27/2018

Informal Cities and Climate Resilience: building an inclusive approach

Informal settlements in cities of the developing world fare very poor under the ‘risk reducing’ infrastructure parameters of the IPCC. Climate change has brought in a unique and complex challenge for cities across the world. While they have to accommodate the billions of immigrants from rura

Disasters , Health , Sustainable Development / 03/23/2018

For One Father And Son In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s Cloud Has Not Lifted

Sarah Varney Inside a darkened bedroom, the elder Martinez, a 67-year-old former star pitcher in the local baseball league, spoons rice and sausage into his son’s mouth. To reach the Martinez home in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, social worker Eileen Calderon steers around piles of dirt, trea

Business , Environment , Resources , Sustainable Development / 03/23/2018

Sand Stories: An upcoming publication on the sand crisis

We have unwittingly built ourselves a society that is highly dependent on the consumption of sand in order to maintain a high standard of living. As a result, we now also face the potential paradox of a ‘scarce’ symbol of abundance. There is a great need to break down information barrier

Aid , Climate , Environment , Sustainable Development / 03/23/2018

Integrated finance for climate and poverty vulnerability

The ultimate successes and failures of climate finance will have diverse consequences for populations living in poverty Climate change induced risks are undermining efforts towards sustainable development of the planet, including progress on the eradication of poverty especially in LDCs, and it has

Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development / 03/20/2018

China’s ministries revamped for “ecological civilisation”

Ma Tianjie and Liu Qin Two new cabinet level ministries will be tasked with managing natural resources and fighting pollution China’s growth story has been an inspiration for many post-colonial developing countries as it pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty. A part of that growth story, th

Aid , Gender , Governance , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 03/20/2018

Gender audits – from paper to practice

Alice Ridge and Juliet Hunt The point at which gender audit findings get translated into practice – is the subject of this qualitative research, recently presented at Devpolicy’s Australasian Aid Conference. Over the past few years, ACFID and our members have been at looking at how gender audi

Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/18/2018

Why every day should be World Water Day

Carolyn Johns Most Canadians think of World Water Day as just another international event on the calendar — when water becomes newsworthy for one day in March, on the 22nd. Yet we would be hard-pressed to go without water for just a few hours, let alone one whole day. Depriving ourselves of water

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