In the last of this week’s posts on the environment, Asad Rehman, Head of International Climate at Friends of the Earth, talks to Daily Development about climate change, his passion for social justice and how the two are interlinked—and how change is possible with people power.
Today Daily Development talks to Selwin Hart, Director of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, about why climate change matters so much to the Secretary-General, and briefs us on the upcoming Climate Change Summit for Heads of State and Government.
A new study looks at a series of climate-smart development project scenarios, and for the first time on a large scale adds up how government actions can boost economic performance and benefit lives, jobs, crops, energy and GDP—as well as emissions reductions to combat climate change. It provides concrete data to help policy-makers understand the broader potential of climate-smart development investments.
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Today Daily Development talks to Adrian Whiteman of the Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations about how conservation of forests and the needs of the people whose livelihoods depend on them can be reconciled.
Even in the context of shrinking flows of official development assistance (ODA), the new development agenda, which is to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) starting from September 2015, has been creating a big buzz over the past 5 years and especially at the international level. Consultations, reports and meetings have been numerous within the so-called ‘planet New York’. But why is it important to follow this myriad of discussions?
It is not rare to read newspaper articles about the challenges facing learners in schools across South Africa: lack of textbooks; questions about teacher commitment; school infrastructure; and how far South African education has really come, since 1994. But there are beacons of hope that should inspire us all.
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Imagine a mother sending her daughter to secondary school in rural Uganda. A contract teacher instructing 130 million primary school students in a New Delhi slum. A chancellor reviewing exam results in Detroit. In each of these scenarios, children are in school—and that’s a good thing, but it isn’t everything. It is very likely that each of these individuals still wonders, “What are my children learning?”