Rwanda: How 21-Year-Old Umuhoza Plans to Fight Climate Change
Grace Ineza Umuhoza, a third year student at University of Rwanda, wants to make a difference in society and is already devising...
Mainstreaming migration for poverty reduction
I recently visited a number of countries on a monitoring mission for the joint IOM-UNDP Global Project on Mainstreaming Migration in...
Africa takes action to advance landscape restoration goals
This week, representatives from 24 countries across Africa reaffirmed the continent’s commitment to bringing degraded landscapes and...
Stark Evidence: A Warmer World Is Sparking More and Bigger Wildfires
On a single hot, dry day this summer, an astonishing 140 wildfires leapt to life across British Columbia. “Friday, July 7 was just...
Why climate change is really about human rights
The morning was frozen grey. The atmosphere, thick with gloom, shrank the world’s dimensions. Dark water sloshed against the rubber duck...
United Nations seminar boosts cooperation between smallholder farmers
Representatives of United Nations agencies, officials from national and Yunnan provincial government institutions in China, researchers,...
The global transition to a low-carbon economy is underway
On Thursday, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NEAA) published its new report on global greenhouse gas emissions noting an...
Rising Threat to Marine Life
Experts at the Science Journalism Workshop in South Africa expressed concern over the threat posed by litter in the world’s oceans, a...
The Moringa Tree Enters the Arsenal of Treatments Against Chronic Diseases
If plants could be superheroes, the Moringa (Moringa oleifera) tree would be one of them. Although native to the foothills of the...
UN to assist African governments in rolling out climate change funds
The UN will assist county governments across Africa in setting up climate change funds in order to build the region’s climate change...