SREX: Lessons for Asia
This brief, SREX: Lessons for Asia, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Asia.
Feature
20th November 2012
Climate smart-agriculture needs an excellent evidence base to access large-scale funding
Elevating climate-smart agriculture to achieve significant international funding on the scale we need will require innovative partnerships that can quantify effective change on the ground, says Dr Natasha Grist, Research Fellow in Climate Smart Agriculture at ODI and Head of Agriculture and Coastal Clusters, CDKN
Resource
15th November 2012
REPORT: Climate & Development Research Review
The Climate & Development Research Review highlights key trends in a growing body of research on the links between climate change and development.
Feature
13th November 2012
The potential of micro-insurance for DRR?
Nasreen Rashid, Executive Advisor, EFU Group of Insurance, Pakistan reflects from the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) on the role of micro-insurance in DRR strategies
Feature
12th November 2012
Edison lights the way to a low-carbon energy sector
Steve Thorne, energy expert and Director of SouthSouthNorth, casts a critical eye over conventional energy supply and suggests policy makers could learn a lesson from Thomas Edison in how to deliver low-carbon energy services
News
9th November 2012
Low Carbon Economy Index reveals 2°C target is unrealistic
PwC’s latest Low Carbon Economy Index reveals that our current rate of decarbonisation is falling well short of ambitions for avoiding dangerous climate change, as Jonathan Grant, Director, Sustainability & Climate Change at PwC reveals.
News
7th November 2012
Can green growth elevate the status of environmental policy?
Michael Jacobs summarises the economic and social forces ranged in favour of, and against, green growth and examines how likely it is to succeed in raising the priority of environmental policy in tough economic times.
Feature
6th November 2012
The need for climate-smart disaster risk reduction
How is the convergence between the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation agendas reflected at policy level and in practical programming in Asia? Knud Falk, Hina Lotia and Amy Kirbyshire report from the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR (AMCDRR) in Indonesia.
SREX: Lessons for Latin America & the Caribbean
This brief, SREX: Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Resource
1st November 2012
SREX: Lessons for Africa
This brief, SREX: Lessons for Africa, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Africa.