Study says households headed by women are allocating 30 percent of their spending on protection from climate disasters. Rural families in Bangladesh are using the bulk of their money to protect themselves and their homes from climate change, especially households headed by women who are allocating up to 30 percent of their spending for that purpose, researchers say. For the …
Study says droughts, floods and heatwaves are fuelling climate migration as nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes. A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say. “We cannot afford to …
