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Practical Action CEO Sarah Roberts was one of a number of people called to give evidence to the UK Parliament’s International Development Select Committee.

A celebratory naming ceremony for MS Riviera Radiance has brought together Riviera Travel and Practical Action in a powerful display of a shared commitment to global impact.

The UN climate talks in Belém have ended with some steps forward on how the world tracks progress on climate adaptation. However, Practical Action staff working closely with communities living with climate impacts say the outcome still falls well short of what is needed.

When global leadership fails, local leadership becomes even more essential.

In the wake of reports of mass killings in the city of El Fasher in recent days and weeks, we spoke to our Darfur area co-ordinator, Awadalla Hamid Mohamed.

Food and agriculture are responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading drivers of biodiversity loss. Yet, hundreds of millions of people are going hungry, and many of the farmers who feed us live in poverty.

Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon today presented a new mechanism designed to create direct channel of funds to Amazonian territories.

Practical Action’s CEO Sarah Roberts underlines why climate change remains her number one priority and what the organisation will do to help the world address the challenge.

New policies and a financial package which could save the Amazon have been proposed by a group of indigenous women from Peru and Ecuador.