by Deborah Phelan | Apr 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security
2050kids is laying the groundwork for our first project, which would engage Northern California Native American communities in community-based biochar and permaculture practices to tackle the state’s historic drought, reduce climate change, and grow more...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 16, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Global Health, Youth
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, speaking at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, yesterday emphasized the need to “embed Disaster Risk Reduction into the very DNA of our sustainable development framework.”...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 9, 2015 | Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Youth and Climate Change
Seychelles launched a week long series of weather reports imagining what a climate changed world might look like in 2050. Weather forecasters from Madagascar and Chile, Cuba and Ghana, Italy and Nigeria are participating in the third installment of the WMO’s...
by Deborah Phelan | Feb 28, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, Our Blog
The failure of government officials to adequately represent the necessity to actively involve youth within the framework of the Sustainble Development Goals (SDGs) is further fueling collaboration among numerous organizations championing the rights of youth to...
by Deborah Phelan | Jan 30, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, Hunger, Our Blog
The United Nations launch of The World We Want calls on citizens everywhere to sign up and share their priorities to build “a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015,...
