“Adaptation” and “Mitigation” are critical policy objectives to combat climate change. The Adaptation Committee of the UNFCCC had producted an information paper on the linkages between adaptation and mitigation. Read the paper:https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/ac17_8b_ada_miti.pdf Read full report

The post-COVID-19 “World Economic Outlook” by the IMF Read full news item

Did you know? There are more than 7,000 edible plant species, but only about 170 are grown on a commercial scale? – FAO http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1154584/

Levels of air pollutants and warming gases over some cities and regions are showing significant drops as coronavirus impacts work and travel – BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51944780

Welcome to the Global Development Research Center (GDRC)’s blog! The multi-disciplinarity of GDRC’s 15 programmes help in discovering the connections and associations among different issues (causes and effects, for example) not apparent at first. This is the thinking that went into the creation of this blog – Serendipitous Tags – in making the unexpected links…