Calls for sewage monitoring as river branded a health hazard
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Sewage polluted waters and a lack of monitoring – Save Our Shore Leith
Leith’s Shore and Combined Sewage Overflows
Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel
The Sahel region – the strip of land extending coast to coast from west to east Africa – has long-established patterns of human mobility, largely characterised by internal movement within countries or between countries. This mobility has acted as an important resilience strategy for people’s survival and a way to create new economic opportunities during times of both crisis and stability. Existing research suggests that climate-related changes and risks might...
Synthesis report: Exploring the conflict blind spots in climate adaptation finance
This synthesis report explores whether and how climate adaptation programmes have been conflict-sensitive in fragile and conflict-affected situations. It also examines the barriers and enablers to increasing adaptation finance to these contexts and refers to these two issues as the ‘conflict blind spots’ in climate adaptation finance.
The analysis is based on an analysis of donors’ approaches to conflict...
Enabling Climate Science Use to Better Support Resilience and Adaptation Practice
I led a wonderful team for LTS International to undertake an initial scoping study addressing the following question: “Within the process of enabling climate science to better support resilience and adaptation practice and achieve internationally agreed commitments, what is working and what is missing in its use, and which people and institutions are key contributors in this field?”
The team, which...
Changing business as usual: How sustainable investment promotes sustainable land use
Sustainable investments make good business sense. Investing in sustainable production reduces the risk of supply chain disruptions. Incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions contributes to improved corporate financial performance and risk-adjusted returns on medium to long term.
- Pioneering companies and financial institutions are taking a lead in sustainable agriculture and forestry investment, yet progress has been slow and...
Evidence, urbanisation and ecosystems services in Asia
Land use change underpins urbanisation, the growth of peri-urban areas, and degradation of surrounding ecosystems. Across all countries, concern is increasing about urban expansion into hazardous areas including wetlands, floodplains, coasts and slopes. This conversion is worsening ecosystem-related risks that are in turn being exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Throughout the region, the poor and vulnerable are affected the worst as they rarely possess the means to protect their...
Towards the New Urban Agenda: Where are “people” in delivering inclusive, safe, resilient cities?
New visions for how cities will look in the future are increasingly criticized by NGOs and other civil society organizations for not focusing on the rights of urban citizens, particularly those increasingly “left behind”.
Many ACCCRN members and partners are therefore focused on a “New Urban Agenda” to be agreed by the Habitat III cities conference in October 2016.
The agenda is ambitious, calling for fair and inclusive urbanization. Yet even though it is being developed...
Urbanization, inclusion and social justice
With cities recognized as being at the forefront of addressing global climate change, it is clear that urbanization of the future will need to be very different from urbanization of the past, and from current trajectories. There is an urgent need for a transformative urban future that is socially just, inclusive, and ecologically viable.
The biggest challenge to this transformative urban agenda is improving governance to achieve sustainability goals in places where it currently is...