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Innovating for people and planet in Vanuatu

Tuvalu wields new data in the fight against climate change

To make green recovery a reality, the immediate post-COVID-19 period of the next 6 to 9 months needs to focus on climate policies and climate-friendly technologies according to the .

Transforming food and agriculture: Creating food security while fighting climate change

For people on the front lines of climate change and conflict, COVID-19 is a new challenge

A vaccine may come for coronavirus — but there isn’t one for climate change

channels climate and environmental finance to smallholder farmers, helping them to reduce poverty, enhance biodiversity, increase yields and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

and the Google Arts & Culture used key findings from  to create “Heartbeat of the Earth”, a series of experimental artworks inspired by climate data. 

Reefs in shallow water.

As the world plans for a post-pandemic recovery, the United Nations calls Governments to seize the opportunity to “build back better” by creating more sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies. The UN is devising a blueprint for a healthier planet and society that leaves no one behind and actions are being taken to ensure a more resilient future. Secretary-General António Guterres proposed six climate-related actions to shape the recovery. While works closely to build scientific knowledge on .

If the world has seen a scary future with the emergence of COVID-19, the future of our planet in a 3-4° C scenario takes us to an entirely different level of uncertainty, including in terms of health. understands that fundamental to a transformational and green recovery will be early action on a longer-term agenda to address climate change, avoid habitat loss and fragmentation, reverse the loss of biodiversity, reduce pollution and improve waste management and infrastructure.

While the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc around the globe, the remoteness of the Pacific Islands has left people living there vulnerable in many different ways. 

Climate technology experts met virtually last week to discuss how governments can green their economies and prepare for the inevitable impacts of climate change.

In the path of the monarch butterfly

Water use efficiency can only be improved by monitoring surface water, groundwater and reservoirs. Effective flood and drought policies can only be implemented with data and models for assessing the frequency and magnitude of extreme events. Each 23 March, we celebrate and this year we highlight the link between climate and water and the need to manage them in a more coordinated and sustainable manner.

Yasminna, one among 90 youth environmental activist, exposes the huge impact of rising sea levels threatening homes, crops and culture at meeting in Samoa.