Livia Bizikova, director – SDG Knowledge Programme, IISD, @LiviaBizik, @IISD_news Livia's links knowledge and experiences to develop approaches to sustainable development, climate change adaptation and resilience.
The five-story granite house -- built in 1887 and designed by the noted architect Thomas Lamb -- could have been sheetrocked further and turned into condominiums by an enterprising developer or, probably less likely in the hot development climate of the late 80's when Mrs. Balk and her husband bought it, restored to its original single-family configuration.
This article considers the challenges Africa faces in implementing the Sendai Framework and recommends that besides "Africanizing" Sendai goals and strengthening the region's political commitment to disaster risk reduction (DRR), Africa should also develop a single framework that integrates DRR, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and conflict prevention.
Consistent with disaster research and scholarship, Africa needs to develop a clear roadmap that integrates DRR, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and conflict such that DRR wherever possible conducts a continuous conversation directly with health, education, investment, absolute poverty reduction, social protection, environmental sustainability, and conflict prevention.
His seminar provides some really interesting insights on insect development, climate change, and day length.
In 2015, we will see a remarkable convergence of global negotiations on international development, climate change and trade.
To make agricultural development climate-smart, a gender-responsive approach is needed to gain a nuanced understanding of the root causes of vulnerability and factors that determine adaptive capacity, and allow gender-based inequalities to be addressed effectively.
Additional financial resources are to be obtained by promoting the role of forests in other areas of sustainable development, such as rural development, climate-related policy and protection of biodiversity.
If that Yimby group forms into a legitimate urban voting bloc, it could topple the anti-development climate in key cities, just as Nimbyism now reinforces it.
The third form of uncertainty is the increased exposure of urban populations to the impacts of a spectrum of uncertain developments, climate impacts.
The document stated that 'the influence of these developments (climate change and upstream water use) on the total water availability is considered to be small.
