LONDON (AlertNet) – An international trading system based on a per capita carbon emissions target by mid-century could help limit…
ODI Background Notes, July 2011
This background note outlines recommendations for a post-2015 agenda to address chronic global poverty, and raises…
Overcoming climate change is the most critical challenge of the 21st century. The flows of funding to assist developing countries…
Current responses to climate change are failing to manage effectively…
Already, the world is experiencing the destructive effects of rising global temperatures, altered rainfall patterns and extreme weather. Short term,…
The leaders of the United Kingdom and Ethiopia will head up a new high-level group launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…
The world must adopt a low-carbon model for growth as it rebuilds from the global economic crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing…
FAIRFAX, Va., January 27, 2010—Public concern about global warming has dropped sharply since the fall of 2008, according to the…
Washington, D.C.-Without an intentional cultural shift that values sustainability over consumerism, no government pledges or technological advances will be enough…
Few major natural catastrophe losses in 2009 General trend confirmed by large number of weather extremes
Natural catastrophe losses were far…
As the world warms, how different societies fare in dealing with rising seas and changing weather patterns will have as…
After lengthy and difficult negotiations, the EU Member States have reached agreement. The difficult question of ‘climate financing’ has been…
