Learning to Adapt: The vital role of education and gender equity in climate justice
The Population Council’s research on education centers gender equity in our approach to addressing global challenges. Recent evidence has highlighted gendered effects of [...]
Effective Climate Adaptation
The climate crisis is accelerating, posing existential threats to people and places around the world. Any successful response must combine mitigation, or reducing [...]
Growing Up in an Uncertain World: Adolescents and the climate crisis in LMICs
WD2023 Concurrent Session Room: MH4.2 ORGANIZERS Population Council, Women Deliver, Youth Co-Researchers (also Women Deliver Young Leaders), UNICEF Impacts of climate change [...]
The Data Behind Climate Investing: An Earth Day Q&A with Jack DeWaard
With this year’s Earth Day theme of investing as an engine for change, we want to highlight what the Population Council is doing [...]
Improving Climate-Impacted Health Outcomes and Systems
To inform local and global interventions, a number of projects examine the impacts of climate and environmental stressors on a variety of health [...]
Innovative Models of People and Climate across Time and Space (IMPACTS)
IMPACTS develops and deploys solutions to understand who and where is most affected by the climate crisis to inform targeted and equitable responses [...]
Sharing Progress on the Population Council’s Agenda for Change (2022)
It’s been two years since the Population Council launched our Agenda for Change—a commitment to becoming an antiracist organization and addressing wider issues [...]
Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) Initiative
PERCC: Data Across Borders and Disciplines The climate crisis is accelerating, posing existential threats to people and places around the world. Any successful [...]
Children in Indian Districts with High Climate Vulnerability More Likely to Suffer from Malnutrition
Children living in districts of India that are highly vulnerable to climate variability are more likely to suffer from malnutrition compared with children [...]
Community-Level Assessments of Climate Threats in Odisha State, India
Climate change and climate-induced disasters pose a significant challenge to poverty reduction, health, and development in many countries. Located on the east coast [...]
The Population Council Joins BankFWD to Accelerate the Banking Sector’s Alignment with Global Climate Goals by Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Finance
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) ended over the weekend with agreements that fall short of its goal of limiting global warming [...]
New Website for Policy-Relevant Population Modeling Essential for Equitable Climate Action
Predicting changes in populations—their size, distribution, movement, and demographics—is becoming a core element of climate research. That’s why we’re proud to announce the [...]