2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Africa
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Healthy employment
Trade unionists and environment experts from around the world have agreed that environmental rights such as access to clean water, health care and energy be made part of workers rights.<br><br> The decision was taken during a conference on labour and environment organised by the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi from January 15-17, 2006.<br>
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Un dammed opposition
The us $1.2 billion Merowe/Hamadab dam on river Nile in Sudan, the largest hydropower project being developed in Africa, is being opposed by environmentalists. The 1,250-megawatt dam, to be
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The Bill of contentions
The biodiversity bill has the potential of challenging the much hated formal intellectual property rights system of the TRIPs
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Improving on haves and have-nots
All-or-nothing targets for global access to basic amenities such as drinking water and sanitation are outdated. The time has come for a more fluid approach. March 20, 2008
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Interview: Can't see the desert for the trees
Returning to Africa after a 10 year absence, Chris Reij could barely believe his eyes. On the arid margins of the Sahara in Niger, all he could see were trees.
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Future Food: Kenya - 'Food or Fuel?'
In Food or Fuel, the second episode of the Future Food series, Kenyan Farmer and campaigner, Moses Shaha is cynical about ‘biofuels’, energy extracted from crop plants. He journeys through southern Kenya
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International Conference on Hydrometeorological Risks and Climate Change. 12-14 November 2014, Mexico
The ancient and beautiful town of Cholula, Mexico, one of the magical towns in Mexico, where the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla is located, has been chosen as the site for the celebration of the ICHRCC.
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Africa Carbon Forum, Marrakech, Morocco, April 13-15, 2015
The 7th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) offers a comprehensive programme for project developers and policy makers on the latest investment, finance and development opportunities relating to climate change.
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Water's Promise
<p>Water today is undervalued, misused and misallocated. Too many of us take it for granted - we turn on the tap and it flows. But did you know only 4% of Earth’s water is freshwater and only 0.5% of that is safe for human consumption? As shocks of drought and deluge unleash their devastation, water has forced itself to center stage. It demands that we change fundamentally; it asks that we value it profoundly.</p>