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Walker Update – 27th April 2021
Welcome to the Walker Update, bringing you up to speed with the latest developments from the Walker Institute and the wider climate science field.
Partnering: Combatting neglected tropical diseases.
We are delighted to announce our new ...
Walker launches new partnership with Sightsavers
The Walker Institute and international charity Sighsavers have launched a new partnership to explore how climate change will affect the spread of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
Future Systems – Immersive Game
Thursday, March 17, 2022
For Food Biosystems Doctoral Training Programme
Policy makers invoke the term “Food systems” as a way of framing the holistic and complex inter-dependencies, impacts, and outcomes that food production ...
Assessing Livelihood Vulnerability to Extreme Shocks Course Successfully Completed by Students in Uganda and Kenya HEA and IHM Foundation Course 2
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Assessing Livelihood Vulnerability to Extreme Shocks (ALiVE) – Foundation Training II
Both local and international food systems are facing multiple shocks, from pandemics to the increasing frequency of ...
Assessing Livelihood Vulnerability to Extreme Shocks Course Successfully Completed by Students in Africa
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Already vulnerable communities are facing multiple shocks, from pandemics to extreme weather events. These shocks are worsening persistent inequalities in the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and ...
Adaptation Planning: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Vulnerability in the Lake Victoria Basin
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Paper recently published in Frontiers in Climate, section Predictions and Projections.
Why was this research needed?
Research data rarely provides the information decision makers need in ...
Blog: Dr Luisa Campi’s ‘Walker Journey’
Thursday, February 24, 2022
We wish Luisa all the best in her new role at the University of Cambridge in the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre in the Faculty of Education. She reflects here on her time ...
OECD Include Walker Work in Report on Managing Losses and Climate Change Damages
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
OECD Include Walker work in Report on Managing Climate Risks, Facing up to Losses and Damages 2021
The Walker Institute has contributed a case study on uncertainty and the use of decision-driven ...
COPCAS Student Blog: Was the Blue Zone Really All Blah Blah Blah? One Student’s Reflections on Attending COP26
Friday, December 10, 2021
At the Walker Institute’s COP26 debrief session we were asked to summarise, in one word, how we felt about this year’s conference. A nigh on impossible challenge! Having been incredibly fortunate to ...
Launch of Walker Institute / Microsoft UK Collaboration – Perspectives on COP26 for Climate Resilient Societies
Friday, November 26, 2021
On screen: Dr Aida Opoku-Mensah, Walker Institute Board member and former Chief of Staff at United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Left to right: Jimmy Cockerton, Microsoft UK, Business ...