'Oxfam is calling for climate change adaptation policies at every level to be gender-sensitive so that they address both women’s and men’s needs and interests. Only this approach will be effective in building community-wide resilience to climate change, reducing gender inequalities, and so also promoting development.'

'New research from nef and WWF reveals the paradox of the UK Treasury hooked on income from the oil and gas sector, yet missing a never-to-be-repeated opportunity to invest in the transition to a sustainable energy system by failing to tax surplus profits from oil. 
The research calls on the government to follow the broad example set by Norway, which established in-effect, an oil ‘Legacy Fund.’'
This is a New Economics Foundation's (nef's) paper, published in October 2006. PDF format, 47 more...

'The paper continues the long-term strategy adopted as the core of Danish development policy; a policy which is based on an active and mutually binding partnership with the programme countries as well as the most important multilateral organisations. The Government’s development policy priorities for 2008-12 follow up on the previously announced political objectives and ensure that these goals will still be implemented.

Africa remains at the heart of Danish development policy, because this more...

'The global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’: a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and soaring energy prices underpinned by encroaching peak oil. It is increasingly clear that these three overlapping events threaten to develop into a perfect storm, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Depression, with potentially devastating consequences.
The Green New Deal Group, drawing inspiration from the tone of President Roosevelt’s compre more...

'Given increasing evidence of environmental degradation, the system
needs reform urgently. However, it should be noted that the system
needs reform not because it has “failed,” but because it has outgrown its
own original design.

This book seeks to identify a number of practical steps that can foster
a more efficient and effective environmental regime, making better use
of the resources available and designed in a way that will be more helpful
to the implementation of international more...

'This paper investigates how environmental change and Canadian security are interlinked. First, it attempts to chart the ways in which global environmental change (such as climate change and environmental mismanagement) affect Canada‘s domestic security and the welfare of Canadian interests overseas. Three particular challenges stand out: the first is the struggle for control of shipping routes across a warming Arctic; the second is the hunt for new sources of energy; and the third is environm more...

'Trends in Sustainable Development, is a colorful compilation of maps and graphs devoted to the discussion of interrelated challenges being addressed at the 14th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (May 1-12, 2006). The four areas are: energy for sustainable development, industrial development, atmosphere and air pollution, and climate change.'

Climate change is one of the most serious threats the world faces. It will affect all of us, but will have a disproportionate impact on millions of poor rural people. Climate change is a challenge to everyone working in development.

The 16th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development was held in New York in May 2008. This year, the session was dedicated to reviewing issues related to Agriculture, Rural Development, Land, Drought, Desertification and Africa. Indigenous Briefs is a collection of issue papers examining these topics from African indigenous perspectives.

A Publication by The World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, World Resources Institute. Three quarters of the world's poorest citizens — those living on less than $2 per day — are dependent on the environment for a significant part of their daily livelihoods. Climate change, therefore, adds a real urgency to the efforts of the many institutions that work to improve the lives of the poor.