State of global environmental governance 2022
With the pent-up need for countries to agree how to address climate finance, plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and other pressing environmental issues, a tidal wave of in-person negotiations swept
Conflicts
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Children uprooted in a changing climate: turning challenges into opportunities with and for young people
The climate is changing everywhere, and uprooted children and young people – whether living in protracted displacement, refugee camps, urban slums or bustling mega cities – are among the most exposed to
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Exploring the conflict blind spots in climate adaptation finance: synthesis report
This report examines whether climate adaptation programmes have been conflict-sensitive in fragile and conflict-affected regions, and the barriers to increasing adaptation finance to these contexts. This
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Ebb and flow, Volume 2: water in the shadow of conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa Region encapsulates many of the issues surrounding water and human mobility. It is the most water-scarce region in the world and is experiencing unprecedented levels of
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Running dry: the impact of water scarcity on children in the Middle East and North Africa
Water challenges in the Middle East and North Africa existed for thousands of years. However, the scale and impact of the crisis today is unprecedented. UNICEF’s new report, Running Dry: Water scarcity
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Hunger hotspots. FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity- August to November 2021 outlook
Efforts to fight a global surge in acute food insecurity are being stymied in several countries by fighting and blockades that cut off life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine, warn the UN's
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Food systems in conflict and peacebuilding settings: pathways and interconnections
The objectives of this three-part policy paper series are to emphasize the urgency of addressing the relationship between conflict and food insecurity and to point out existing opportunities to do so.
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Toward new policies for the climate change and violent extremism nexus in Africa
As part of the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre’s (OGC) initiative to further support advancement of the research agenda on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), the OGC partnered with the Regional PVE Project
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Water Under Fire Volume 3: Attacks on water and sanitation services in armed conflict and the impacts on children
Attacks on water and sanitation facilities in conflict zones around the world are putting the lives of millions of children around the world in danger, and are a much greater threat than violence itself,
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Central African Republic: acute food insecurity projection update April- August 2021
Nearly half of the population - 47 percent - suffers from high and surging acute food insecurity in the Central African Republic as the country reels from the impacts of ongoing conflict and COVID-19,
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Mozambique food security outlook update, April 2021
The start of the main annual harvest is gradually improving food access for most households in the semi-arid areas of southern and central Mozambique, driving Stressed (IPC Phase 2) or Minimal (IPC Phase