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A Closer Look at USAID’s Climate Strategy: Climate-Smart Development a Work in Progress
›July 14, 2014 // By Kathleen MogelgaardIn March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest comprehensive synthesis of climate change research. The report concludes that “impacts from recent climate-related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability.”
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Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow: World Population Day 2014 Youth Infographic
›World Population Day began in 1987 after public imagination was sparked by the idea that there could be 5 billion people on Earth. Today, we’re well past 7 billion and according to the latest UN projections, headed north of 9 billion by mid-century.
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Alice Thomas: For Refugees, Environmental Recovery Critical for Return to Normalcy
›There are now well over 16 million refugees worldwide and 65 million people internally displaced by conflict and disasters, according to recent estimates. As more and more people are uprooted from their homes, mounting environmental pressures threaten to reinforce cycles of poverty and displacement if left unaddressed, says Alice Thomas in this week’s podcast.
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Seven Billion People, One Planet: Roger-Mark De Souza on Empowering Young People
›“Population is critical to thinking about sustainability and human wellbeing, and how we live and subsist on the planet,” says ECSP’s Roger-Mark De Souza on this World Population Day.
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Youth and Global Violence: Saving History’s Largest Generation of Young People
›July 9, 2014 // By Moses JacksonAs the largest-ever generation of young people enters adulthood, armed conflict is having a profound effect on their future. People under the age of 24 comprise nearly half the world’s population but are the primary participants in conflict today. Conflict is more prevalent in younger societies, and half of all forcibly displaced people are children.
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From the PHE Conference in Addis Ababa, a Progress Report on Integrated Development
›My grandmother was pleased when I told her I was heading to Ethiopia last November for an international conference focused on population, health, and the environment.
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Richard Cincotta on Demography, Stability, and Democratization in Africa
›“You can look into the future a couple decades and get a very good idea about where countries are going,” said Richard Cincotta during a presentation at the National Defense University last summer – at least when it comes to demography.
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Special Issue of ‘Reproductive Health Matters’ Highlights Integrated Development, Resilience Efforts
›The May edition of Reproductive Health Matters is a special edition on sustainable development and reproductive health and rights. Our own Roger-Mark De Souza writes that in the quest to build resilience, development practitioners can learn from integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs.
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