I work as the climate change adviser for the DFID Caribbean office. I am based in our regional office in Barbados as part of our Tackling risks to growth team. I have been working in the Caribbean for over eight …
If someone had suggested to me six or seven years ago that I would end up working on climate change, I would have taken it with a pinch of salt. If I thought much about the issue at all I …
When it comes to climate change, things are hotting up. I don’t just mean in the way many people are aware of – that is, that global temperatures are getting warmer and the world needs to act now if we …
Awareness on climate change and the need for long term adaptation has been relatively slow to develop in Nigeria - 'Naija' in local slang - and with understandable reason. Some developing countries have never had major industrialisation or modern infrastructure, so the debate …
DFID Mozambique has been thinking about how to address the key challenges set out in DFID’s White Paper ‘Building our Common Future’, which was published in July this year. Rita Zacarias, pictured here holding the cover of the soon to …
I wrote about how climate change is affecting Nepal a few weeks ago, when I was lamenting that the monsoon was late and then, again lamenting (!) that the rains had finally arrived – too late for a lot of …
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