Items tagged with: Water and Climate Updates

The FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) programme have released their latest briefing note "National Adaptation Plans - an entry point for ecosystem-based adaptation ...

On 24 April 2020 the Alliance for a Climate Resilient Earth (ACRE) was launched as an initiative of the Stimson Center. As a member-based organization, ACRE aims to bring together municipal, business ...

In the lead up to the SDG Summit, UN DESA set up an online platform titled, SDG Acceleration Actions, to capture and collect new commitments or initiatives that are undertaken by Member States and ...

10 years ago, on 27 May 2010 the first Wetskills Water Challenge ever was held in Shanghai. Since, Wetskills literally traveled over the globe: making friends, co-creating ideas & solutions ...

The EU Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) Project - overseen by GWOPA - will soon begin in earnest, having been delayed for several months due to the global outbreak of COVID-19. This project aims ...

In this new blog series staff members, students and affiliated researchers of the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa (CFIA) reflect on the role of frugality and frugal innovation in times of ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands challenges entrepreneurs, companies and organizations to develop innovative products and services that can support the COVID-19 approach itself and ...

With the acceleration of climate change, addressing environmental challenges has never been more urgent. More people now than ever before have direct experience of the increased pressure on our planet ...

With COVID-19 significantly impacting the work of utility companies, information sharing between organisations is becoming ever more important. A WhatsApp group – founded by Isle Utilities and ...

The provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene services is essential for protecting human health during all infectious disease outbreaks, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

Water security is an integrated part of all major challenges and opportunities for Europe to lead the way towards a sustainable future, as targeted by the European Commission’s new Green Deal policy ...

Facilitating interactions amongst stakeholders to generate and share water and climate knowledge and innovation is a core goal of AfriAlliance. To promote this exchange, the AfriAlliance Needs & ...

The EU Water Alliance has today released its new Manifesto which aims to highlight the pressing water challenges Europe faces and to set out the key actions required to overcome them. Water issues are ...

Availability of water is fundamental for development in the East African region. However, this vital resource is already under stress from land degradation, pollution, and overfishing. Climate change ...

The ‘Characteristics of citizen science’ sets out to address an important question for our field: what is citizen science, and what isn’t? The project to produce these characteristics was led by Muki ...

Climate change-related challenges are among the most pressing global threats of this millennium. Africa and Europe are working together to share and create knowledge, build partnerships and target ...

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have developed a short survey as part ...