Good news: May’s ALL-IN Research Network (ARN) Member Workshop will be public! Join ICED & MRR Innovation Lab to explore how grounded research & practitioner community can shape practical solutions for loss & damage.

📆 May 9, 2024
🕘 4-5pm EAT (1-2pm GMT)
🌐 bit.ly/ARNMay

Ahead of International Labour Organization World Day for Safety and Health at Work, we reflect on the challenges faced by migrant workers like Suman Owhal. Suman's story highlights the urgent need for comprehensive social protection amidst climate change. Read our blog here: early-action-reap.org/social-protect…

Happening now on the sideline of ⁦IMF⁩ ⁦World Bank⁩ Spring meeting: Finance Minister of Maldives, Antigua & Barbuda UN Representative & Tom Mitchell & ⁦Ritu Bharadwaj⁩ from ⁦IIED⁩ speaking about debt sustainability in Small Island Dev. States.

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Check out this insightful article by Laurie Goering for Climate Home News discussing the current status of the #LossAndDamage Fund.

It features quotes from Ritu Bharadwaj IIED, Avinash Persaud, Michai Robertson, and myself.

climatechangenews.com/2024/03/25/exp…

Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative #COP28 #COP29

We're excited to introduce Ritu Bharadwaj, Team Leader of the Climate Change Group at IIED.

Ritu tells us about the very diverse initiatives she's working on to help LDCs and SIDS tackle climate impacts.

Read the full interview here: early-action-reap.org/ritu-bharadwaj…

As climate change impacts hit farming in rural India, women driven into sugarcane work are undergoing unnecessary hysterectomies to work harder, an IIED report shows.

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5/5. This IIED paper comes from Ritu Bharadwaj, N. Karthikeyan, Ira Deulgaonkar, and Arundhati Patil.
See the related project “Tackling #ClimateChange #LossAndDamage by strengthening anticipatory risk response under social protection programmes” here: iied.org/tackling-clima…

4/5. ...the paper uses two frameworks to analyse and quantify the economic and non-economic #LossAndDamage faced by these communities. In this way it offers important insights into the multifaceted nature of #ClimateImpacts .

3/5. Highlighting that it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating #LossAndDamage that the #ClimateCrisis is inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries such as those in Maharashtra state...

2/5. This life-altering decision follows migration to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, —including fines for work absences— are prevalent which in turn drive many women to have hysterectomies to avoid lost income due to menstrual pain.

1/5.🤯Shocking IIED paper on how as the #ClimateCrisis intensifies, women in India's Maharashtra state who fear lose of income from work in sugarcane fields are being driven to have hysterectomies to avoid breaks due to menstrual pain.

🔗Read it here: iied.org/22281iied#:~:t…

DOWNLOAD: Women paying the cost of the climate crisis with their wombs: quantifying loss and damage faced by women battling drought, debt and migration --> iied.org/22281iied

As climate change intensifies, policymakers must address #LossAndDamage . #InvestInWomen #IWD2024

Climate change link to hysterectomy crisis among Indian sugar workers --> iied.org/climate-change…

New research links #ClimateChange to female farm workers in India undergoing hysterectomies to avoid having to miss work. We are calling on the #LossAndDamage fund to help.

Happy #InternationalWomenDay !

In our #iwd2024 blog, written with Ritu Bharadwaj of IIED, we explore whether disaster responses are truly people-centred if we miss vital and diverse perspectives from the communities most at risk.

Read more here: early-action-reap.org/beyond-people-…

Devastating findings in this report from #IIED that examines the intersections of climate vulnerability, migration, gender, sexual and reproductive health, forced labour and landlessness, in Beed Ritu Bharadwaj IIED

It's worth reading the full report

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