A Lesson In How Not To Tackle The Climate Crisis

By Dr Ioannis Tsipouridis July was a month of climate reckoning. Even for sceptics. The UN General Secretary decided to shift level in his narrative and said that the “’Era of global boiling has arrived”, hoping to wake up some of the people convening behind closed doors in board rooms. July was a month of […]

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Global Cities Fund For Migrants And Refugees Announces 6 New African City Grantees Delivering Solutions For People Affected By Climate Crisis

Today, on the sidelines of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees (GCF) announced a new commitment from the IKEA Foundation of $1.2 million to provide direct financial and technical support to six African cities addressing the needs of migrants and displaced people affected by the climate crisis. The World […]

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Women On The Frontline Of The Climate Crisis Call For Action

The Migration Blanket: Climate Solidarity is a sequel to Salma Zulfiqar’s award-winning film In Solidarity: The Migration Blanket, which won Best Animated Short at last year’s Berlin Independent Film Festival “Our house was destroyed and we couldn’t go to school when the floods came. Climate change destroyed our agricultural land,” Shofika, Rohingya refugee, Bangladesh. Shofika is just […]

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The Consequential Effects Of Covid-19 On The Climate Crisis

The tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic and its associated challenges have thrown our world into chaos, with the virus destroying lives and livelihoods in its path. The whole world is presently seized by the effects of the pandemic, but there is a silent crisis of equal measure that has long been ravaging lives, devastating livelihoods, […]

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