GRID-Arendal: 30 Years of Making a Difference

INTERPOL and UNEP released a GRID-Arendal Rapid Response Assessment (RRA) report The Environmental Crime Crisis in June. The report highlights how environmental crime is used to finance criminal, militia and terrorist groups and how it threatens human security and sustainable development. GRID-Arendal published the report Food Wasted, Food Lost . The report argues that ecosystem degradation is a major cause of loss in potential food production, while human practices and preferences are blamed not only for food loss but also food waste. It calls for investment in better management of food producing ecosystems. GRID-Arendal led the assessment component of the project entitled Climate change and Adaptation to Climate Change security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus . The goal is to facilitate participatory assessments of links between climate-change and security in the three regions, highlighting hotspots, and to present the assessment results in a visual and practical format. GRID-Arendal worked on a report for the Government of Norway on the health effects of emissions originating from incomplete combustion of fuels used for cooking, heating and lighting in the developing world. The report, Survive Breathing – Reduce household air pollution to save lives and help the climate , pointed to the combined benefits to health, climate and the economy that can be achieved by reducing pollutants such as black carbon (or soot).

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