Climate Change Has ‘Permanently’ Changed the Great Barrier Reef
17 March 2017
Scientists speculate that the era of never-ending global coral bleaching may have already arrived, decades early.
New Zealand transforms Whanganui River into a legal person
17 March 2017
THE Whanganui River has been granted the same legal status as a human being by New Zealand’s House of Representatives.
Explaining the world-first decision, the country’s Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Christopher Finlayson said the river would “have its own legal identity with all the corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person.”
The needs of the land and the needs of the people can’t be separated
15 March 2017
The national conversation about land, always simmering in South Africa, has come to the boil again. What’s often missing is a voice for the unrepresented party – the land. I’d like to be that voice.
UNFCCC Momentum for Change 2017
09 March 2017
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The search for Momentum for Change’s 2017 Lighthouse Activities is on! Applications are being accepted from 30 January to 9 April. Spearheaded by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, Momentum for Change shines a light on the most innovative, scalable and replicable examples of what people around the world are doing to tackle climate change.
If you’re leading a results-driven project that is successfully addressing climate change, we want to hear from you!
How women farmers are battling climate change in Zimbabwe
08 March 2017
Chengetai Zonke lost much of her maize crop to drought last year. When it came to planting again, she decided to reduce her stake in what has become a recurrent climate change gamble.
At her homestead in Chiware, in Zimbabwe’s northeastern Manicaland Province, the 52-year-old farmer explained why. “I’ve abandoned tilling the bigger fields to avoid the risk of putting more land under crops that may fail due to lack of rain or too much rain,” she told IRIN. “Replanting costs money, which is scarce.”
Climate Change Blamed for Deadly Landslides in Chile
27 February 2017
By: Javiera Quiroga
Date: 27 February 2017
Source:Bloomberg
Landslides close to the Chilean capital Santiago killed three people over the weekend, while cutting off water supplies to millions of homes, the National Emergency Office said.
Another 373 people remain cut off after the rains swept away roads and bridges, said Ricardo Toro, director of Chile’s National Emergency Office.
In Peru, droughts give way to floods as climate change looms
05 February 2017
Date: 2 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Severe droughts gripping Peru have given way to some of the country's most devastating downpours in decades, catching authorities off guard as they scramble to contain the kind of floods that climate change is expected to make more frequent.
Study shows that involving communities in mangrove management makes them more sustainable
03 February 2017
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: CIFOR
Mangrove forests that incorporate local communities into their management fare better, a new study finds. Recognizing the importance of gender and community rights in mangrove use and planning prevents the deterioration of these fragile ecosystems.