Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Land & Food
Central America & Caribbean
Diego Arguedas Ortiz

Central America’s toolbox to pull 23 million people – almost half of the population – out of poverty must include three indispensable tools: universal access to water, a sustainable power supply, and adaptation to climate change.

Energy
Land & Food
Asia

The biggest stumbling block that could come in the way of India’s effort to become a leader in the solar energy market is land acquisition.

Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Land & Food
Global Issues

As the world prepares for a pivotal climate conference in Paris this December, countries are offering their national plans to tackle a changing climate. These plans, known as intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), contain details of what each country is prepared to do as part of a new global climate agreement.

Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Conflict Transformation
Land & Food
Water
Global Issues

Negotiators from 193 countries agreed 17 sustainable development goals for 2030 in New York on Sunday.

Climate Change
Energy
Forests
Land & Food
Private Sector
Asia
South America

As a result of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's ongoing visit to Brazil, China and Brazil Tuesday signed a joint statement on addressing the climate change issue together for a common vision of sustainable development.

Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Land & Food
Minerals & Mining
Private Sector
Asia
Dr. Will Rifkin, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

The impact on farmers of drought exacerbated by climate change can be mitigated by aspects of certain forms of resource extraction.  However, the Australian experience suggests that such measures involve trade-offs.  These trade-offs illustrate how our energy choices are becoming increasingly com

Forests
Land & Food
Private Sector
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nilima Choudhury

The UN hopes a new treaty signed by African governments, industry representatives and civil society organisations this week will slow levels of illegal timber trading in the Congo Basin.

Climate Change
Land & Food
Global Issues
Middle East & North Africa
Kyle Benjamin Schneps

In February 2011, an international summit in Bonn, Germany officially approved the building of a pan-African Great Green Wall (GGW) in support of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Water
Land & Food
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
North America
James R. Clapper (Remarks)

To the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Remarks as delivered by James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence

Rémi Dourlot (Interview)

In early June, ECC editors interviewed Rémi Dourlot from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal, on the Sahel food crisis.

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