Pre-Paris: What every development professional should know about climate change

By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 13 October 2015
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Environment Minister of Peru Manuel Gerardo Pedro Pulgar-Vidal (first right) and Foreign Minister of France Laurent Fabius (second right), presidents of COP20 and COP21, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The upcoming COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Paris, from November 30 to December 11. Photo by: Eskinder Debebe / United Nations

At the end of a packed year of big development events, COP21 looms.

Climate change impact on ecosystems and livelihoods will affect the work of professionals in WASH to education to urban planning, and not one sector has been left out of the call to mainstream it in programming and strategies.

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    Jenny Lei Ravelo

    Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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