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Title As El Salvador faces the double impact of hurricanes and COVID-19, NGOs step in 30 Dec 2020 Body After Tropical Storm Amanda in June, some 110 families from Tacuba received hygiene kits and tarpaulins from Oxfam, PROVIDA and CORDES with funds from ECHO. © Oxfam/Valerie Caamano Fondeur By Veronique Durroux-Malpartida, Head of the Information Unit in OCHA ROLAC Early forecasts warned that the 2020 hurricane season in the Atlantic would be very active, and for El Salvador, the impacts were felt early in the season. In June, tropical storms Amanda and Cristóbal generated lands...

The back-to-back hurricanes destroyed a small patch of corn that helped Tomasa Mendoza feed her five children in a tiny hamlet nestled in the impoverished mountains of eastern Guatemala.

By now it's well understood that climate change leads to rising seas and rising temperatures. It is also increasingly linked to rising conflicts. In 2014, the Pentagon issued a major report that referred to climate change as both posing "immediate risks to U.S. national security" and being "a 'threat multiplier' because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we are dealing with today — from infectious disease to terrorism." Last year, Stanford University convened a group of top climate scientists, political scientists, economists and historians to examine the degree to wh...

Global Climate Fund approves $160 million to support FAO-led projects Format New grants will increase resilience to climate change and combat deforestation in Argentina, Guatemala and Sudan 13 November 2020, Rome - The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved three new FAO-designed projects in Argentina, Guatemala and Sudan for a total amount of $158.6 million aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening resilience to climate change, and combating deforestation. FAO Director-General QU Dongyu stressed FAO's willingness to continue working closely with GCF in support of fo...