The Paris Agreement reached last Saturday provides an unprecedented opportunity to keep the global temperature rise well below 2 ºC and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 ºC. This is a major step forward to a low-carbon economy. ...
If Africa’s water, agriculture and energy security were a card game, the stakes would be high. The continent will have a quarter of the world’s population by 2015 with a demographic boom that will bring 370 million youth to ...
For many basins around the world, the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and communities are becoming more and more visible, prompting a strong need to improve capacity and planning around extreme events such as floods and dr...
The significance of the UN climate change summit this week in Paris is not (only) about ensuring a high-level, legally binding political commitment to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, and prevent the planet´s average tempe...
Ask most people what the link between gender, poverty and water is and they’ll refer to the role of women in collecting water. However, this focus on domestic water supply is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle linking gender...
For many rural farmers, fishers and communities, food, water and energy resources are not considered as separate issues, they are just part of daily reality and need to be managed accordingly. Yet, the conceptual separation and co...
City and utility leaders who embrace both natural and engineered water infrastructure will not only meet future water demand; they will reshape our planet’s landscape for the better. In less than 20 years from now, nearly three-...
We live in a changing world that is quickly becoming water scarce. Fresh water is critical for human wellbeing, as well as for healthy ecosystems and sustainable economies. Yet water scarcity is increasingly a global reality and w...
Access to water is a huge challenge for refugees. In more than half of refugee camps around the world,refugees cannot secure the minimum daily water requirement of 20 litres per person, let alone water to support livelihoods. The ...
All business decisions start with an idea. At last week’s Responsible Business Forum in Singapore, the big idea being debated was how business can deliver on climate action for a better future. Businesses have been criticised f...
