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Trigger warning: This session will deal with issues including gender and sexual violence and abuse. 

Highlighting the health implications of climate-driven food insecurity, the session will focus on existing programs that strengthen the climate resilience and economic viability of the food supply chain and improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers. It will look at the key role that early warning systems play in making the supply chain from rural to urban settings more climate resilient, and the widespread health and environment benefits of including food systems in Nationally Determined Co...

Abt is partnering with The Climate Registry at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27).

Marked every year on 20 June, World Refugee Day is an opportunity to understand the life-threatening plight of refugees, recognise their resilience, and offer support by giving refugees a platform, raising awareness of their situations and calling for their rights – for safety, asylum, protection – to be upheld.  

This panel will focus on recent findings that highlight how climate change-related factors such as extreme heat, natural disasters and displacement disproportionately impact women and girls and have exacerbated violence against them.

More than 60 NGOs call for spending rule change, saying people on frontline of climate crisis want greater access to reproductive healthcare