Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 6/2022

Extreme weather

Bangladesh’s coastal areas have an extensive network of cyclone shelters.
Disaster preparedness

Boosting disaster preparedness in the Ganges Delta

Bangladesh has made remarkable progress towards climate resilience

Beneficiaries of India’s MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
Social protection

How social-protection systems matter in the climate crisis

Social safety nets help to protect disadvantaged people from climate impacts

A herder looks after his camels in Kenya, 2021.
Drought

Travelling far to keep herds alive

Why drought exacerbates tensions between herders and farmers in East Africa

More Articles

A villager shows the remains of his dead cows on a farm struck by drought in Kenya in March 2022.
Drought

Linking humanitarian relief to development and peacebuilding

Lessons to learn from the Horn of Africa’s third consecutive year of drought

Cotton picker in a field in Sindh.
Labour rights

Dangerous cotton harvest

Mostly women pick cotton in Pakistan – they are poorly paid and exposed to health risks

Roseau, the capital of Dominica, after Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Tropical storms

CARICOM plans to boost disaster resilience

Due to global heating, hurricanes are becoming more dangerous in the Caribbean

The village of Dernau in the Ahr Valley in Germany was almost completely flooded in July 2021.
Disaster response

Learning from the catastrophe in the German Ahr Valley

The flooding in July 2021 could have been less disastrous if the authorities had learned from the past and from other countries

This satellite image shows a collapsed ice shelf the size of New York City in East Antarctica in March 2022. The area had long been believed to be stable.
Relevant reading

Climate hazards are increasing fast

UNEP demands fast climate action to prevent even more extreme weather

Villager in a maize crop field damaged by drought in Kenya, March 2022.
Our view

There is no excuse for lacking action anymore

Extreme weather is no longer only a natural phenomenon, but exacerbated by human-made climate change

Sowing cotton in a field in Punjab.
Agriculture

How the climate crisis affects cotton production in Pakistan

Rising temperatures have contributed to a 50 % decline in cotton production in Pakistan

The shores of Lake Tanganyika are increasingly unsafe.
Global heating

Lake Tanganyika: levees needed

Tens of thousands of Burundians have been displaced by impacts of climate crisis