David Satterthwaite

Now possible to support SDI’s global poverty fighters and their
initiatives with modest donations. So many SDI examples of how far they make modest funding go. If the big funds don't support them we can
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Trump’s capacity for Self-Delusion must be off the scale if he thinks that he can win a Nobel Peace Prize

David Satterthwaite was a member of the IPCC team honored with the Nobel Peace Prize (2007).

Breaking Research Aristocracy; why climate resilience must be-co-produced

A large body of knowledge about climate change adaptation is held in traditional practices that are not documented. So they cannot be included in IPCC assessments. In this blog, Sheela Patel describes how this is leading to new methods of engagement
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Communities must move from being consulted to becoming implementation partners. Panelists highlighted the significant contribution already being made by communities, particularly organized women and residents of informal settlements, in mapping needs, mobilizing savings, improving water and sanitation, upgrading neighbourhoods and stengthening resilience. Participants called for community-led approaches to be recognized, institutionalized and financed, including through small, flexible and predictable funding mechanisms. Participatory governance and community ownership were considered essential to ensuring that interventions respond to local realities and produce sustainable outcomes.
Community-generated data should be recognized as an important component of urban governance. Organized communities highlighted that residents of informal settlements are already collecting data, mapping and profiling neighbourhoods, using geospatial technologies, mobilizing collective savings and developing community-led housing and upgrading solutions.
Surprising source; the Informal Summary prepared by UN-Habitat at the Midterm Review of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly 16-17 July 2026.

I am puzzled about climate change
The largest global body of expertise (IPCC) not allowed to engage in discussions on solutions – at a time this is most needed
US President sacking many of those who would have contributed
Many governments reneging on their commitments
What threshold must be crossed in child deaths and for whole populations for adequate action to begin
Its not just more deaths it is all the injuries, loss of livelihoods, loss of housing