Indigenous Intelligence Belongs at the Centre of Climate and Disaster Policy

Every 9 August, the world pauses for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The date was set by General Assembly resolution 49/214, and it marks the first meeting, in 1982, of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Commemoration is easy. What the day now demands is harder, and it starts with language. We […]

The Cheque That Arrives Before the Loss Adjuster

Fifteen weeks separate Stockholm from Abu Dhabi, long enough to make three water finance instruments so ordinary that any country can simply request them  The water sector has been handed an unusually clean sequence this year. Stockholm meets from 23 to 27 August for World Water Week. Abu Dhabi convenes the UN Water Conference from […]