That’s the main message in this year’s Adaptation Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). By 2035, developing nations will need well over $310 billion per year in dedicated funding to adapt to a planet increasingly altered by polluting fossil-fuel emissions, the report states. “Climate adaptation” refers to the...
President Trump’s executive order a week ago called for all foreign aid to be re-evaluated to ensure that it complies which his new foreign policy priorities. The immediate scope of the order was not clear but on Friday, according to news reports, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued...
That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province. The agency’s deputy director in Afghanistan Ana Maria Salhuana stressed that to assist earthquake survivors WFP “is...
