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COP27 Round-up

COP27 Round-up By Tom Caley, ADN Writer Last weekend the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP27, overran by two days as delegates struggled for agreement. To follow up our previous post…

Join the Global Movement: Mark International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD) in March 2026

By Prof. Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett and Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) invites campaigners, practitioners, researchers, and community leaders around the world to mark the International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD) on 12 March 2026, or on…

Seeds of Resilience: Lessons from Odisha for a Climate-Just Future

By Mr. Yunes Abou El Wafa and Mr. Eduardo Cardoso As the global community gathers at COP30 to advance the implementation of loss and damage mechanisms, the lived realities of smallholder farmers in rural India emphasize the urgency while showing…

Information Integrity: Keeping the data in mind during COP30

By Omri Shoshani As loss and damage has grown into a central discussion during the recent Conference of the Parties under the UNFCC, and will undoubtedly play an important role during COP30, it warrants reflecting on the evidence that will…

Extreme Heat Deaths Must Be Avoided

By Mr. Mihir R. Bhatt March 12, the International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD), challenges us to confront a painful reality: many deaths we accept as “normal” consequences of heat are neither sudden nor inevitable. Extreme heat is one…

Exercising Saves Lives

By Professor Alois Hirschmugl Designing and Implementing Effective Disaster Response Training Over the past decade, D.M.A.T. Consulting KG has organised a wide range of disaster response exercises worldwide, including in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and…

Celebrating the Women Ambassadors of CASA

By Dr. Madhulika Sahoo It was last year when I visited Burujhari village in the Ganjam district of Odisha. I visited the case station and interacted with the women ambassadors. The women who took responsibility for mitigating snakebite deaths in…

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