The impacts of the 2023 wildfires on Tacana communities
by Mónica Cuba | Thursday, October 31, 2024 In 2023, the Tacana Indigenous communities in Bolivia expected La Niña to bring floods but instead they faced wildfires that entirely devastated their livelihoods. Following the recent expansion of the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance’s focus, Practical Action is working in Bolivia to increase resilience to wildfires, in […]
Funding a resilient future: what needs to happen at COP29
by Debbie Hillier | Salomé Lehtman | Laura Bahlman | Colin McQuistan | Kristen Ostling | Thursday, November 7, 2024 World leaders and negotiators are soon set to gather in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP29), where critical decisions – especially on climate finance – are on the […]
Beyond promises: Why COP29 must secure a $1trn climate finance goal for global action
by Debbie Hillier | Tuesday, November 12, 2024 The impacts of climate change are undeniable, as shown by the devastation caused by floods in Spain, deadly hurricanes in the United States, flooding in Nepal and other extreme weather events worldwide. With air and sea temperatures rising and climate records continuously shattered, global efforts to address climate change must expand […]
Why COP29 must be guided by climate devastation in poor countries like Malawi
by Tommy Chimpanzi | Friday, November 15, 2024 As world leaders meet in Azerbaijan this week for COP29, I urge them to think of the communities I work with in Malawi. Our small south-east African state is being relentlessly battered by the brutal impacts of climate change. Over the past five decades, Malawi has experienced more […]
Midway through COP29: Hanging on by a thread, or all to play for?
by Barbara Rosen Jacobson | Debbie Hillier | Monday, November 18, 2024 As COP29 in Azerbaijan reaches its halfway mark, we’ve been observing strained negotiations. From the critical discussions on the creation of a new climate finance goal to negotiations on adaptation and mitigation, an ambitious outcome of this pivotal climate summit is still far […]