South-South cooperation (SSC) as a complementary means of implementation provides great opportunities for developing countries to advance sustainable...
World-wide, cities are on the advance. Today, they host more than half of the world's population and every minute, their population grows by 140 people: 200,000...
Changes in global weather patterns are now projected to have potentially devastating impacts on agriculture in the coming years and decades. The rising “double...
Cities are on the sharp end of a range of risks from criminal violence, terrorism and war to demographic pressures, to climate and environmental change. Coastal...
This brief summarises the insights of the regional workshop on Foreign Policy Contributions to Climate Economy in Latin America that was organised by adelphi...
A low-emission transition will require profound changes in terms of infrastructure, business models as well as individual habits. In order to support this...
At the Habitat III conference in Quito, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) launched, ‘Addressing Climate Change in National Urban...
The effects of climate change vary from region to region, but according to a new study from the World Bank, the majority of the global impact stemming from...
This Book is part of the Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management-series and examines the nexus between water, food and energy as basic resources which...
There is little question that the effects of climate change will cause more extreme weather events and crop insecurity in the decades to come, and it is...
This paper examines the relevance of cities and city networks in the current international climate policy architecture, especially with respect to the evolution...
The World Risk Report 2015 systematically assesses the vulnerability and exposure to natural hazards of 171 countries around the world. Published yearly by the...
The authors of this World Bank publication sustain that global efforts to alleviate poverty will be threatened if climate change is not accounted for in policy...
This report takes the stance that implementing low carbon development is compatible with and a condition for eliminating poverty. The authors argues that the...
Parametric risk insurance—insurance policies that use environmental measurements, such as wind speed or the amount of rainfall, to trigger an immediate payout...
This report by the UK-US Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience highlights an increasing risk to global food production represented by...
Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources...