How can governments tackle poverty when climate change, conflict and economic shocks hit all at once?

By Vidya Diwakar, Deputy Director, CPAN; Research Fellow, IDS, Institute of Development Studies

Multiple and often overlapping crises such as floods or drought due to climate change, violent conflict and economic instability are creating new forms of vulnerability. Collectively they’re known as a polycrisis. These have severe effects on countries in sub-Saharan Africa with high poverty levels where weak…

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~	Green roofs can help cool cities in the summer heat, but building them is only the first step – many don’t survive

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~	As oil profits skyrocket, calls for windfall taxes rise

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~	What it’s like to discover an ancient Egyptian tomb – and the race against time to preserve it

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