Whether this is the “age of crises”,[1]Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, States of Fragility 2022, OECD Publishing, 2022, https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/states-of-fragility-2022_c7fedf5e-en polycrisis or permacrisis, the idea that we are living in...
The relationship between climate change and humanitarian crises is often oversimplified in public discourse. Contrary to popular belief, climate change is not the direct cause of disasters, but rather an...
In the face of climate change, French humanitarian NGOs are adopting different models while confronting a dual injunction: environmental and decolonial. The management tools they use reveal three distinct approaches,...
Humanitarian organisations are faced with a dilemma: they have to intensify their interventions to meet growing needs but have to drastically reduce their carbon footprint at the same time. This...
How a massive influx of internally displaced people caused natural resource overexploitation, leading to rapid deforestation and land degradation, and worsening the current humanitarian crisis. The authors explain what happened,...
In January 2025, two journalists from the French newspaper Le Monde asked: “Is ‘climate indifference’ on the rise in France?”[1]Audrey Garric et Matthieu Goar, « Assiste-t-on à une progression...
Published on 6 December 2024 So what does a world at +2°C mean for international aid and development? With this question in mind, Groupe URD, in partnership with Humanitarian Alternatives,...
At a time when multilateralism is collapsing and populism rising, Norah Niland highlights the new fragilities that Covid-19 has revealed in local and international systems of governance. If the pandemic...
Knowing about the discussions in progress at Médecins Sans Frontières, as well as the actions it intends to implement to adapt to climate change, provides precious insight. Though they speak...
Many NGOs have already responded to the requirement of linking action and research. For instance, since 2016, Action Against Hunger has been holding a conference to take stock of these...
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