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Accelerating urban action for a carbon-free world, five Malaysian cities take an integrated approach to low carbon development.
Impacted by both climate change and the pandemic, mountain resorts are turning to summer visitors for climate-resilient sustainable growth.
With funding from the GEF and support from UNDP, nature-based climate actions are building a climate-resilient future for the people of Puntland.
Africa is at a crossroads. The multiplying challenges of the climate crisis, conflict and COVID-19 have put more and more people at risk.
For Mohammed Ahmed - better known as Sidey - water has been an economic lifeline. Since he lives in the Maldives that may not seem surprising. While…
Integrated approaches for climate-resilient development supported by UNDP are improving lives and livelihoods – and protecting the planet.
Rising temperatures and increasingly frequent droughts will turn large portions of cocoa-producing regions to savanna by 2050.
How Ecuador is pioneering deforestation-free production chains to conserve the Amazon.
With support from UNDP, countries across the region are advancing climate-resilient development to address the life-threatening challenges of climate…
Around the world some 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, 4.2 billion people lack safely managed sanitation, and 700 million…
Flooding is common in Nepal and extreme rainfall events are a natural part of the landscape. However, climate change is making such events more…
On the face of it, the Maldives is paradise on Earth. Yet the low-lying atoll nation is also fragile, confronting the impacts of a warming planet.