by Deborah Phelan | Apr 23, 2023 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, Food Security, mitigation
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) just released its latest annual report the State of the Global Climate 2022, revealing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) on the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere, painting a dire picture of droughts, floods and...
by Deborah Phelan | Oct 19, 2017 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, mitigation
A CUNY report suggests that some 500,000 people could leave Puerto Rico following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. One month after the hurricane, 80% of the island remains without power, approximately 1/4 of its residents lack access to clean drinking water,...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 13, 2017 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Drought, DRR, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule
What can we do about climate change? The Best Climate Practices Observatory has just announced its fifth challenge “Building local resilience to climate disaster risk, in a search for innovative best practices to address the severe danger from extreme weather...
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...
