Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights: Smart Climate Action and Good Business
Fire, heat, flooding and drought are a recipe for climate disaster for workers. Companies urgently need to not only mitigate their causes but must also invest in resilience – especially in the health and well-being of women workers in corporate supply chains. Women’s health is material to human rights, productivity, and climate resilience. Women represent […]
Why is Doing Business Differently Critical to Combatting Climate Injustice?
Why growth for growth’s sake is not sustainable As the global COP29 community gathers in Baku, Azerbaijan, we continue to hear about and see greater and greater impacts of climate change negatively affecting communities and their livelihoods, all around the world and in new and unexpected places. There is no way now of denying the […]
How Early Climate Action Cuts Costs, Saves Lives and Builds Resilience
Around the world, 3.6 billion people are climate-vulnerable, with the majority being women. As the climate crisis intensifies, it is no longer a question of if but when these communities will experience a climate emergency. Last year, USD $223.7 billion was globally given as aid, an amount comparable to the annual GDP of New Zealand, […]
How We Can Support More of the World’s Smallholders to Farm Sustainably
Growing the Movement for Change For smallholder farmers battling soils degraded by chemical fertilisers, pesticides and intensive farming, regenerative agriculture offers a solution that can improve soil health, increase resilience to climate change, and address rural poverty. In partnership with the IKEA Foundation, Hand in Hand worked with almost 2,000 Kenyan smallholders to transition their […]
Working with Farmers to Respond to the Climate Crisis
Working with farmers to respond to the climate crisis: 5 key learnings for climate mitigation and adaptation programmes in supply chains “There has been of late long dry spells which have affected my coffee farm, hence I have been using a lot of money to buy inputs,” Naftery Kinyua, a coffee farmer from Kenya told […]
Extreme Heat, Workers’ Rights and the Power of Collaborative Action
Whilst the great and the good of climate policy meet in Baku, Azerbaijan for COP29, and as LinkedIn and Twitter feeds begin to overflow with a frenetic hubbub of updates, insights and arguments, breathe deeply and take a few minutes to immerse yourself in a different reality. A reality that at first glance may seem […]
Women-led Climate Solutions for Resilient Communities
“My message to the world: I want to tell people to stop wasting resources and I would like to find an opportunity to teach them the importance of managing resources such as water. In as much as men and women are all affected by the drought, women are more affected. … If [my child] comes […]
Strengthening Gender Equity in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Integrating gender equity into the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) is essential for achieving environmental and social sustainability. At the heart of this discussion is the question: How can carbon credit quality be improved, whilst also driving benefit for the planet and the people most affected by climate change? Integrating gender equity into carbon credit initiatives […]
From Carbon to Cash: The Climate Innovations Raising Smallholder Farmers’ Incomes
There are an estimated 600 million smallholder farmers around the world who are working to produce one-third of our global food supply. As climate challenges increase, these farmers are disproportionately affected by changing weather and rising temperatures that lead to increased droughts, erosion, pests, and disease. The stakes are high – both for keeping people […]
Off-Grid Success: Solar Chilling Fuels Produce Supply For Women Farmers In Malawi
Lack of refrigeration and access to markets means Malawian farmers lose up to half of their produce to post-harvest loss – this was one of the main factors driving the Renewable Energy for Agriculture project run by Practical Action and our partners in northern Malawi. The work has levelled the playing field for rural women […]
The Fairtrade Foundation: 30 Years of Transformative Change
“It’s more revolutionary what you put on your plate than what you post on the internet.” Those are the words of Silvia Herrera, a second-generation coffee farmer from Chiapas, southern Mexico, who I met earlier this month. Silvia is right. We should never underestimate the power we have as consumers. Power to change an unfair […]
Unintended Consequences of Environmentally Friendly Diets
As the world grapples with the urgent need to protect human health, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity, the foods we eat have come under scrutiny. Unhealthy diets are a major contributor to the global burden of disease. And food systems are a major contributor to climate change and environmental destruction. Deficiencies in essential vitamins […]
Business Fights Poverty Global Equity Summit 2024
Supply Chain Decarbonisation with a Gender Lens
The urgency of the climate crisis means that a growing number of companies are investing resources to better understand and reduce emissions across their supply chains, including indirect or Scope 3 emissions. Frameworks – such as the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard – have been developed to help support this process; however, […]
Business Fights Poverty Climate Justice Summit 2023, Online and In Person
Empowering Women in Cotton Farming: Building Resilience Amid Climate Change Challenges
In cotton, women play a significant role in building sustainable, productive and resilient farms. From planting seeds to nurturing and harvesting crops, women are at the beating heart of smallholder farming that is the source of much high-quality raw material supplied to global retail buyers and made into the cotton clothes we love to buy […]
Bridging Net Zero and Poverty Zero Goals: A Crucial Framework for Global Sustainability
The global climate crisis is only going to worsen, exacting huge tolls on people, urgently needed resources, and local, regional, and national economies unless commitments by governments to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and hit Net Zero by 2050 are met. These commitments continue to be a work in progress, but a more […]
Five Reasons Why We Need Fair Food Systems for Future Food Security.
Who doesn’t like to start their day with a banana smoothie, avocado on toast or a steaming cup of strong coffee? Or relax after work with a glass of wine and a handful of nuts? For millions of consumers around the world, life without some of our favourite foods and drinks would be very dull […]
Eco-Green Teens Project: Empowering Nigerian Youth for Sustainable Agriculture
The Covid-19 pandemic had a socio-economic impact on the Nigerian economy, which led to increased food prices making basic staple foods (maize, cowpea, green leafy vegetable etc.) difficult to access for both low and middle-income classes [1]. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) also predicted that over 19 million Nigerians would face food insecurity in […]
Green and Social Investments in the Global South will Show Returns Worldwide
If you want to predict the effects of global warming in Europe, just look to Bangladesh. Despite producing merely 0.56% of global CO2 emissions, this country in South Asia is among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis. Floods, storms, intensifying cyclones, rising sea levels: the consequences of the climate crisis are numerous and visible, […]