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The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) issued the sixth edition of its Global Assessment Report (GAR2022), which argues that conventional approaches to risk governance need to evolve to reflect the systemic nature of risk and to “recognize complex causal structures, dynamic evolutions and cascading or compound impacts.” Formulated as a call to action, the report’s recommendations seek…

Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference ushered in modern environmental diplomacy, we still face a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution. Multilateralism is key to solving today’s global environmental challenges, but it may not be enough to avert catastrophic damage unless governments and all stakeholders rise to the occasion. Fifty…

A series of recommended reading lists provide starting points for researchers, students, practitioners, and others looking to dive deeper into research on gender and a wide variety of topics. In this list, we take a closer look at the recommended reading on gender and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is one of the key pathways of socioeconomic advancement and can be a driver…

Collectively, the 2020 reduction was the largest in the EU since 1990 and total greenhouse gas emissions reached their lowest level since 1990, according to the official EU data which the EEA submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The overall reduction in 2020 greenhouse gas emissions was 34% compared to the 1990 base year, or 1.94 billion tonnes of CO2e …

“At no other point in modern history has humanity faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards interacting in a hyper-connected and rapidly changing world,” said Ibrahim Thiaw, the executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in a statement on the launch of the second Global Land Outlook report (GLO2). “We cannot afford to…

Cocoa has been cultivated for centuries and is a commodity upon which more than 20 million people directly depend on for their livelihood and consumption of cocoa products is on the rise. Scientist Christophe Kouame explains the chronic problems pushing up global chocolate prices. The Legacy Programme will play an important role in the solution. ‘Production of cacao, the…