More hunger, more displacement, more people in crisis, and a soaring price tag: Humanitarian needs and costs will once again shatter records in 2023, but available funding – and the system itself – isn’t keeping pace. Source: Soaring humanitarian costs in 2023: Key...
Governments, scientists and conservation groups are working to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water for nature by 2030. Scientists say that protecting 30% of Earth’s surface will help species and ecosystems recover from the stresses that are depleting them. It also...
Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Droughts are one of the “most feared natural phenomena in the world;” they devastate farmland,...
Can a new set of unbinding promises really accelerate progress towards a more equal aid ecosystem by 2030? Source: Five international NGOs launch fresh bid to tackle power imbalances in aid, The New Humanitarian, by Jessica Alexander, Policy editor-at-large, October...
There’s plenty to go around, but it’s going to the wrong places. Source: The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Isn’t More Food, Foreign Policy, by Sarah Taber, October 8,...
