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Mothers Rise Up presents “What Comes After the Flood”, directed by Charli Willow. Our film follows the story of Tenbury Wells, a picturesque medieval town in central England, and once a sought-after place to live. Now, after a series of devastating floods, it has been ominously labelled the ‘UK’s first uninhabitable town’. Not because life there is impossible, but because homes, businesses and even the town hall are now uninsurable.

The climate finance gap The needs are stark. Communities across the region are contending with rising seas, sinking deltas, erratic monsoons that swing between flood and drought, and the steady loss of fragile livelihoods – yet the funding to build their resilience lags far behind. UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty warned of a “yawning gap in adaptation finance” for developing countries – one putting lives, livelihoods and entire economies at risk.

The event brings together the pioneers of Thailand’s sustainable timber construction industry. It is a space to exchange knowledge, forge partnerships, and advance the strategies this movement needs to scale at this critical moment of climate urgency and economic opportunity.

Skip navigation It has been 87 days since the energy crisis began on 28 February 2026, following the sudden escalation of conflict in the Middle East. Even though the US and Iran extended a tentative ceasefire on 21 Apri, the shockwaves have already fundamentally destabilized global energy markets. From the viewpoint of Thailand, this crisis has exposed a painful reality: the country’s current energy system is not resilient and is placing an unequal economic burden on vulnerable communities.

Skip navigation Travel and health services have been upended in the UK as high temperatures lead rails to buckle, electric lines to sag and computer systems to fail. More new homes are being built on flood-prone plains, and more existing homes are likely to become uninsurable as flood risks grow. Costs of food, petrol and diesel are rising in the wake of extreme weather and disruptions in global supply chains for fertiliser and fuel.

Extractive land and natural resource use is degrading Sámi lands, especially since mechanisms ensuring rights to participation and influence for the affected Indigenous communities are lacking or ineffective. This current trajectory raises the question: to what extent do the Nordics uphold the human rights of the Sámi and environmental protection in practice?

Learn how to perform water modelling and planning using SEI’s flagship software, Water Evaluation and Adaptation Planning (WEAP). WEAP is a user-friendly modelling tool that enables integrated water resources planning on a variety of scales. More than 58 000 people use WEAP worldwide for policy planning, research and more. SEI experts will run the training online, in English, on 8, 13 and 15 July 2026, from 7–10 a.m. PDT, with a one-hour introductory session on 1 July at 7 a.m. PDT.

The brief first outlines how the two projects assessed and operationalized policy coherence between the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. It then outlines the challenges that countries face in coherently balancing their global commitments with their domestic priorities. It also highlights the work done to connect the research to decision-making, sets out overarching findings, and provides a bibliography of key publications produced by the projects.

Skip navigation Guided Walk: Meet our Campus Trees Take part in a guided walk and help us celebrate the launch of the reactivated University of York Campus Tree Trail. Designed in the 1960s, the diverse campus treescape is an important home for wildlife and a haven for staff, students and visitors to enjoy. Whether you’re a nature lover, a family explorer or curious about the living landscape around you, why not come along and learn how trees connect our past, present and future.

Skip navigation Principles like co-creation, reflexivity and transparency are well suited to tackle the current socio-environmental polycrises. Participatory approaches like co-creation and co-authorship provide ways to conduct research which can challenge typical power dynamics. In this chapter, Safaya looks at definitions of co-design, co-production and co-dissemination practices, and considers what opportunities they offer for research.