In Iseke village, Ikungi district, Tanzania, a group of young female entrepreneurs is making liquid soap as a means of income and safeguarding their community during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jerry Danny, Charles Mnyororo, Emmanuel Hamis and Emmanuel Msumba report. [more]…
Youth climate leaders have issued their formal response to the United Nations Secretary General's 'Six climate-positive actions to help rebuild economies from the Covid-19 pandemic.' Priyanka Ukabhai of CDKN reports. [more]…
Sam Bickersteth and Mairi Dupar report from the Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s annual conference and learning forum, which this year focused on "Inclusive solutions for the green transition: Competitiveness, jobs/skills and social dimensions". [more]…
In this submission to the Talanoa Dialogue, PRISE puts forward the view that alongside discussions on increasing global mitigation ambition, the dialogue should also focus on enhancing adaptation and building resilience worldwide, while supporting economic transformation that is climate resilient.
This paper provides an analysis of economic resilience at the national level, presenting a broad picture of changes in resilience to climate extremes over a 42 year period. It focuses on 12 countries in the Sahel, East Africa and Asia that are part of BRACED.
This policy briefing, based on five years’ research by PRISE, emphasises that governments, development partners and investors must prioritise investments to tackle poverty and climate vulnerability in dryland areas to ensure that no one is left behind.
A new report from the Government of Uganda with support from CDKN, Baastel, Metroeconomica, Makerere University and CIDT, finds that adaptation to climate change today is well worth the investment. The costs of inaction on climate change by 2025 are 20 times the costs of adaptation. [more]…
A study examined the costs of setting up a series of carbon-based conservation projects in southern Peru. The reported values provide a basis for estimating the cost of setting up similar projects across the whole of the Peruvian Amazon in order to meet government conservation objectives.
Understanding patterns of climate resilient economic development: a synthesis [more]…
Using cost-benefit analysis, this paper, Sheltering From a Gathering Storm: The Cost and Benefits of Climate Resilient Shelter, provides insights into both the economic and nonfinancial returns of adaptive, resilient shelter designs that take into consideration hazards such as typhoons, flooding, and temperature increases. [more]…
