by Global Sherpa | Aug 31, 2013 | Business, Environment, Sustainability
Climate risk presents very real threats and opportunities to companies and communities around the world. The expansion of global supply chains that has lowered costs and brought thousands of jobs to developing countries has also exposed the growing vulnerability of...
by Global Sherpa | Mar 24, 2013 | Cities, Cities & Countries, Environment
Resilient cities mark the convergence between several powerful, prevailing trends in international development: rapid urbanization, climate adaptation and a pronounced increase in natural disasters. By 2050, the United Nations expects 80 percent of the world’s...
by Global Sherpa | Nov 13, 2011 | Cities & Countries, Countries, Environment, Maldives, Travel
The Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean just 1.5 meters above a rising sea level, teeter perilously on the brink of extinction due to global warming. Climate change threatens to wipe out the Maldives’ rich civilization in less than a decade at current...
