Shortly after releasing a report on its climate change strategy in July 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations presents a new...
Climate change is amplifying the risk of extreme weather disasters by increasing the destructive power of storms and floods. At the same time, rising seas...
After cyclone Aila hit the coast of Bangladesh in 2009, migration has become the only option for many families whose livelihoods where impaired by the resulting...
Acknowledging the complexity of the interaction between the biophysical environment, human security and political conflict, this briefing note focuses on their...
South-South cooperation (SSC) as a complementary means of implementation provides great opportunities for developing countries to advance sustainable...
This brief summarises the insights of the regional workshop on Foreign Policy Contributions to Climate Economy in Latin America that was organised by adelphi...
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 volume is the second publication under the ASEAN-Canada Research Partnership project and builds on the project's first phase on economic inequality amid...
Blood Timber is a report by global witness which reveals how logging companies in the Central African Republic have paid millions of euros into the hands of...
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...
While it is intuitively clear that economic growth is related to water security – understood here as both water availability and also exposure to water-related...
Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources...