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Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation to open in Netherlands

Environment – Feb 8, 2017

via Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment

U.N. launches $291m programme to save lives, build resilience in Haiti

Aid – Feb 9, 2017

via Jamaica Observer

In race to clean energy, emerging nations seize bigger role – World Bank

Energy – Feb 15, 2017

In this 2013 file photo, a boy stands in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near a village in Mekelle, Tigray, 780 km (485 miles) north of Addis Ababa.

Unleash the entrepreneur in every small farmer - new U.N. agency chief

Agriculture – Feb 15, 2017

In this file 2011 photo, former Prime Minister of Togo Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

U.N. welcomes Trump commitment to resilient infrastructure

Infrastructure – Feb 22, 2017

via The Huffington Post

Igniting the "B2T" Conversation

Funding – Feb 22, 2017

via YK Center

Japan pledges $3.3 mln to support city resilience project in Afghanistan

Conflict – Feb 24, 2017

via Khaama

The Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development

Event

Aug 17, 2018

3:09 UTC

Bonn, Germany

U.N. pushes 'smart crops' as rice alternative to tackle hunger in Asia

Food – Mar 14, 2017

A farmer plants saplings in a rice field in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2015.

ICCG Webinar Water, Wastewater: Center Pieces of the Circular Economy

Event

Aug 14, 2018

12:33 UTC

Despite growth, one in 10 Asians live in extreme poverty

Poverty – Mar 29, 2017

Women wrap themselves in blankets in a government shelter for homeless people to escape the cold in Delhi, India

As cities surge, careful planning needed for the 'invisible' poor

Urban planning – Apr 5, 2017

Local shoe menders work along a street in Ebutte meta district in Lagos,Nigeria July 28, 2016.

Latin America's poor need more help to tackle Zika: UN

Disease control – Apr 6, 2017

Raquel Barbosa bathes her daughter Heloisa, who has a twin sister named Heloa, both 10 months old and both born with microcephaly, at her house in Areia, Paraiba state, Brazil

Attract youth to farming in Nigeria to fight extremism, says campaigner

Farming – Apr 7, 2017

Kola Masha, Managing Director of Babban Gona and winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Q&A: Lessons from disaster risk reduction in Indonesia

disaster risk reduction – Apr 7, 2017

via Stockholm Environment Institute

Hundreds of millions of poor menaced by 'silent killer': heat

Heat – Apr 12, 2017

A worker takes a bath from the water of a bore pump on a hot summer day in Gurgaon, India, May 29, 2015.

How will Vietnam navigate water issues in the Mekong Delta?

Water – Apr 18, 2017

via Re.Think

Building disaster resilience in Asia's coastal cities - the business case

Business – Apr 20, 2017

via CSR Asia

Informational Webinar on New U.N. Training Programme on Greenhouse Gases

Event

Aug 19, 2018

16:08 UTC

China looks to insurance to stem mounting disaster loss

Insurance – Apr 21, 2017

A woman cries as she cannot find her 4-year-old daughter and husband on top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, China in this May 17, 2008 file photo.