In December 2018 Sadiq Kahn, the Mayor of London declared a climate emergency. As part of a response to this declaration, the city will hold its first ever London Climate Action Week (LCAW) from 1-8 July. Climate experts from various sectors will run events across the city focusing on local, national, and international actions. […]
Wednesday, 12 June07:00-08:30, Venus Room, 3rd floor, Quality Hotel Globe, Stockholm Join GRP and partners at our open Side Event Food Transformation for All: What Business can Do to Build Resilience during the 2019 EAT Stockholm Food Forum, a gathering of nearly 1000 top global thought leaders from science, politics, business, civil society and beyond. The GRP event features inspirational speakers […]
The purpose of this ACW affiliated event “Stepping Up Action on Building Climate Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems in Africa” was to identify the opportunities for increased ambition and African voice for climate action on agriculture and food systems that can be advanced at the UNSG’s 2019 Climate Action Summit and COP25.
The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December 2018. GRP played an active role in convening, facilitating, and co-organizing various COP24 events.
This document provides the outcomes of the Action Event at COP 24, Scaling up investments in climate resilience to meet the needs of vulnerable people. This was the Resilience Roundtable of Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action.
Violent conflict has increased after decades of relative decline. Direct deaths in war, numbers of displaced populations, military spending, among others, have all surged since the beginning of the century (World Bank, 2018). Fragile and conflict affected states show the slowest progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (ODI, 2018), demonstrating that conflict could be one of the biggest hurdles in achieving our 2030 aspirations. More specifically, the recent increase in number of people suffering from acute food insecurity has been attributed to an increase in conflict and extreme weather events (FSIN, 2018).
From participative dialogues to climate action awards, GRP will be well-represented at COP 24. The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) takes place in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December 2018. GRP has become a partner in organizing this year’s Development […]
Watch the documentary produced by the ResilNam project on women, Ecosystem Based Adaptation, and flood resilience in central Vietnam. All in the Same Boat follows the lives of three women, Tran Thi Phong Tien, Le Thi Xuan Lan, and Le Thi Hoa. All the women have faced challenges in regards to flooding and recount their […]
The 1.5°C report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts resilience of societies and Earth’s ecosystems at the heart of climate adaptation and mitigation. It goes further than previous IPCC reports, and sets the challenge of climate change within the context of sustainable development and planetary stewardship. It calls for climate-resilient development that […]
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