If you know how much something costs, you can budget and plan ahead. With this in mind, a team of researchers from MIT, the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute recently developed a country-level method of estimating the impacts of climate change and the costs of adaptation. This new method models sector-wide and economy-wide estimates to help policymakers prepare and plan for the future.

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Water4Dev is a team within the Water Resources Unit one of several scientific units - that makes up the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra, Varese, Italy. Water4Dev activities are aimed at water resources related issues in developing countries.

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PLAZO DE PRESENTACIÓN: 8/5/2013 al 31/5/2013 (la aplicación online cerrará a las 24 h)

As part of its effort to reduce cholera in the world, UNICEF has responded to the growing threat of this disease by launching the UNICEF cholera toolkit, which will help UNICEF staff and partners prevent, prepare for and respond to the disease.

For more information please visit the following page: http://www.unicef.org/health/index_69202.html

The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013 "Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future" seeks to contribute to the global reflection on the post-2015 development agenda by providing independent research-based analysis, stimulating debate and building common ground among key stakeholders.

Some 2.4 billion people will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a new joint WHO/UNICEF report. According to the report, the world remains off track to meet the Millennium Development goal (MDg) sanitation  target.

The report titled Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update is available here in english.

The UKWIR Carbon Accounting Workbook (CAW) provides UK water companies with a consistent and transparent approach for accounting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operational activities. The latest version (CAW v7) enables the water industry to continue to calculate its operational emissions using up-to-date guidance and regulations on GHG accounting in the UK and to report to regulatory bodies and customers.