Tag: community-led climate action
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Where Sanitation Meets Climate Action: Sanitation First India
Sanitation First is a UK-based non-profit that has worked in India for more than 20 years. Its work centers on three interconnected pillars: water, women, and the world, with climate integrated across all of them.
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Communities At The Centre: How UAYO Is Advancing Climate Action Through Community-Led Development
Climate change is not only altering weather patterns; it is reshaping livelihoods, threatening food security, and widening inequalities for communities that have contributed the least to the crisis. In Kenya, climate change is no longer a distant threat. It is flooding homes in informal settlements, shrinking harvests to cause food insecurity, and pushing pastoralist communities…
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Sailing Towards a Sustainable Cartagena
The Planeta Azul Caribe Foundation (FUPAC) is a non-governmental organisation whose main objective is to conduct research to 1) educate and 2) foster a culture of the sea. It was established in 2006 in the city of Cartagena de Indias, building on the work of its founder from 1984 to 2006. Since then, through its…
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Community at the Heart of Climate Action
In the forests of northern Sierra Leone, communities are demonstrating that the most effective climate solutions are built by the people who depend on the land every day. Climate change is putting increasing pressure on rural communities across Sierra Leone. Communities that depend on forests for food, water, and livelihoods are particularly vulnerable.