Winners and Losers at COP25
Well, if everything happens for a reason, then the crooked ‘P’ is representative of this conference Tomohiro Harada spent almost 2 long weeks at the Conference of the Parties (COP) […]
Climate Change Adaptation
Indigenous Peoples: Moving beyond the UNFCCC Platform
Noragric PhD Fellow Tomohiro Harada on the UN’s recent Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in Bonn. Indigenous peoples are no longer ’observers’ at the UNFCCC. As effective ’contributors’ to […]
What happened to the Spirit of Paris? Indigenous Peoples at COP24 in Katowice, Poland
Written by Tomohiro Harada, PhD Fellow, Noragric This last week 30,000 people from across the world gathered at the heart of Europe’s coal mining region to address the biggest threat to […]
Floods in Kerala – a wake-up call
In light of the devastating floods of August 2018, the state needs to introspect on its approach to development. Written by Hans Nicolai Adam, Postdoctoral Fellow, Noragric The worst floods […]
World Humanitarian Day: Are we really ready for climate change?
Written by Siri Eriksen, Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, NMBU Humanitarian crises rarely come without some kind of warning. As Saturday 19 August is World […]
Courting catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate
A call for the humanitarian aid- and climate change sectors to work together to support long-term adaptation to climate change. Written by Jayne Lambrou, Faculty of Landscape and Society, NMBU. In […]