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Analysis: Climate-Smart Public Health: A Blueprint for Resilient Health Systems
When different types of data are brought into one platform, researchers and climate and health practitioners can better understand how environmental changes lead to infectious diseases, etc.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Global
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Women, Wealth and Climate Resilience: The Transformative Power of Asset Creation in Africa
Climate vulnerability is a key factor behind the challenges facing women and girls in Africa. Yet as Jo Opot at Gather Ventures explains, the impact of investments aimed at building their climate resilience often fades too quickly, as poverty and tradition pull them back into household and caregiving duties. She argues that this problem represents a failure to address underlying power dynamics, and proposes a critical yet often overlooked solution — asset creation — exploring how it can advance both climate resilience and the quality of life for women and girls.
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- Environment, Investing
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Report: Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
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- Environment, WASH
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- Global
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Plastic Leakage Could Fall by More Than 95% in Southeast and East Asia by 2050 With Stronger Policies
The Regional Plastics Outlook for Southeast and East Asia shows that plastics use in the region has surged almost nine-fold since 1990, reaching 152 million tonnes (Mt) in 2022.
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: Plastic Credits: A ‘False Solution’ or the Answer to Global Plastic Waste?
As the UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- Global
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Chinese ‘Fast Fashion’ Company Slapped With $1.15 Million Greenwashing Fine in Italy
Italy is the second European country to fine Shein over misleading sustainability claims.
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- Environment, WASH
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- Europe & Eurasia
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A Global Effort to Unleash Local Data: How Open Mapping is Shaping Grassroots Climate Resilience Worldwide
As climate change intensifies, heatwaves, storms, wildfires and flash floods are increasing in scale and frequency worldwide. Yet as Atiya Anis at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team explains, many of the areas that are most vulnerable to climate impacts lack representation on existing maps, leaving communities and decision-makers without reliable data to address these crises. She explores how open mapping offers a solution to this issue by leveraging community-generated data to create accessible and reliable maps of vulnerable areas to support climate mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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- Environment, Technology
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- climate change, data, NGOs
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UN Report Finds United Nations Reports Are Not Widely Read
The U.N. system supported 27,000 meetings involving 240 bodies, and the U.N. secretariat produced 1,100 reports, a 20% increase since 1990.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global