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Eco-solutions: How to measure their effectiveness?
Ecosystem-based solutions or eco-solutions help us to deal with societal challenges. Considering only the financial costs and benefits of these solutions is not enough to understand the effectiveness of these ingenious approaches. Before replicating and scaling up, we also need to ensure they meet social and environmental objectives and as a minimum does no harm.
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2020
May,
2020
Planning for Climate Change during COVID-19 crisis: experiences from Nepal
With COVID-19 at the forefront of all of our minds it’s important we don’t forget about the threat of climate change. We must ensure good plans already in place are adhered to, and mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change is integrated into strategies for countries economic and social recovery. We need to build back better, and more resilient, after the pandemic.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
OPINION: Building resilience to extreme weather is crucial amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is vital that developing countries get the support needed to build resilience to climate change threats as well as the virus.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
Strengthening resilience of flood vulnerable communities in Indonesia during the COVID-19 crisis
Mercy Corps Indonesia is supporting the Indonesian government to enhance resilience to both COVID-19 and recurrent flooding in slum communities in Jakarta. Our experience highlights the importance of programming and messaging that considers concurrent vulnerabilities to multiple threats.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
Eco-solutions: Can nature solve our problems?
22 MAY 2020 is International Day for Biological Diversity, a day to celebrate the role that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems play in hazard mitigation and particularly flood resilience. Biodiversity based solutions or eco-solutions can help us to deal with challenges, like climate change, disaster risks, and poverty. However considering only the financial costs and benefits of the eco-solution is not enough, we also need to ensure it meets social and environmental objectives and as an absolute minimum does no harm.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
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Adaptability in Times of Covid-19: Exploring Digital Resilience Building
Traditional on-site and face-to-face resilience building activities are unavailable to humanitarian and development organizations due to the Coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns. As co...
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Explaining Nepal’s deadly landslides
Nepal is annually affected by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains. So far the 2020 monsoon, particularly the landslides triggered by it, has been particularly deadly. This blog ...
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Climate finance is failing the communities most at risk on a warming planet
Wealthy nations have not kept promises to the poorest people, now being hammered hard by weather disasters ...
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Bangaun community sets a good example in managing mixed vulnerability
This blog from Practical Action Nepal shares how one of the Community Disaster Management Committees they work with as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is managing the mixed vuln...
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Adaptability in Times of Covid-19: Exploring Digital Resilience Building
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