The insurance sector is pivotal to an effective response to sustainable development including providing coverage against natural disasters. San Francisco, 5 December - A new international network of insurance regulators and...
Wetlands International attended the Third International Science-Policy Workshop on 14-16 June, 2016, at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) located in Bonn, Germany, organised by...
New York, 23 September - Partners of a new UN-led platform to mobilize and accelerate action on climate resilience agreed today to move ahead with plans that will help meet the needs of a growing global population that is being...
Wetlands International is working to alleviate the climate change impacts on communities in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. In the context of our Partner for Resilience programme, we created two market gardens and one well...
This policy brief from the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (of which Wetlands International is a member) analyses the Sendai Frame for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) from an Eco-DRR/CCA perspective, as...
All major global policy agreements conclude: wetlands are vital ecosystems in the landscape and are indispensable to achieve a sustainable and secure world. This policy brief sets out the link between the Sustainable Development...
Bamako, Mali – The latest OPIDIN flood forecasting bulletin released by Direction Nationale de l’Hydraulique and Wetlands International predicts extremely high floods in the Inner Niger Delta, Mali. New figures indicate that the...
NATURAL DISASTER I PROTRACTED CRISIS I MAPPING Type of system: eBee Fixed Wing Mapping Microdrone Deploying Agency: World Bank and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Piloting Agency: Drone Adventures Dates of Deployment: February and...
Hello, Grim perspectives this interactive food-shock presentation !! It is to be hoped that the first African Drought Conference held in Namibia (15-19 August 2016) with support from UNCDD to discuss ways to “Enhancing Resilience...
In 2014 at the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, leaders agreed the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (S.A.M.O.A.) Pathway, which recognizes the critical need for these vulnerable countries to...
