People in power - and those toiling on the ground - have been talking about the need for a "just transition" away from fossil fuels and other high-carbon sectors of the economy for a couple of years.

But now that greening growth has become an increasingly urgent mission, heads are being put together to design ways of doing it without leaving entire communities behind.

Some regions and cities in England are setting up independent climate commissions that provide advice on how to achieve the reforms needed to cut emissions to net zero in a fair way, and involving everyone from companies to residents.

In the former coal-mining hub of Yorkshire, the aim is to avoid repeating the harsh experiences of the past.

"I think we have an amazing opportunity to change the way we do things in the UK," says one trade union leader from the county which still bears the social and economic scars of its mine closures. 

Meanwhile, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on World Water Day that the planet's "blue gold" is worth far more to humans than the cost of piping it into fields and homes.

A failure to value its many benefits - from health to religious significance - is causing the precious resource to be wasted and misused, according to the annual water development report.

Researchers last week highlighted how the world's oceans are also undervalued - and said protecting at least 30% of them would improve food security, marine biodiversity and climate protection.

As part of a study in the journal Nature, they gave a first estimate of the emissions from a practice known as "bottom trawling", where fishing fleets drag nets across the seabed.

That releases some of the carbon the ocean floor contains into the water - roughly equal to the CO2 emissions that aviation puts into the atmosphere each year.

Water is also stirring up trouble in Bangladesh, where floods are increasingly devastating the crops of small-scale farmers and pushing them to seek work in cities.

But a government-backed insurance scheme, which offers affordable cover, aims to help them get back on their feet after disasters.

After flooding killed her animals, Dipti Rani, 33, used her insurance payout to buy medicine and birth equipment to sell on to local expectant mothers.

"I'm happy and my daughter started going to school," she told our correspondent Mosabber Hossain. "Climate insurance is good for us."

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