Global Climate Change

Why do many community-based forestry enterprises (CBFEs) perform poorly even after years of donor and government investment? This was one of the...

We’ve all heard the numbers – the global infrastructure investment needed to keep up with projected economic growth is severely lacking. In cities, where 54% of the world’s population now lives , it is estimated that US$4.1 to 4.3 trillion in urban infrastructure investments is needed. To make that infrastructure climate resilient and emission reducing, the estimate increases by 9-27 %.

Many of the world’s conflicts have control over natural resources at their core, whether that resource is water, agricultural land, or mineral wealth...

The direct consequences of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations are fairly well established, but there is emerging...

While emerging scientific evidence suggests that wildfires are on the rise globally, Guatemala’s northern department of Petén, a forest area rich in...

This blog was originally posted on the Wilson Center's New Security Beat after the report launch of the USAID Climate Action Review: 2010-2016 , co-...