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Development and climate finance

Abel Gwaindepi - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

The EU and debt-for-climate swaps: Geopolitical ambitions and development impacts

Karim Karaki, San Bilal - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

EU's 2040 climate target: a framework to keep on track

Nicolas Berghmans - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

Enhancing alignment of biodiversity and climate action at COP28 and beyond

Alexandra Deprez - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

Just Energy Transition Partnerships: Toward a Collective Assessment

Dunja Krause and Anabella Rosemberg - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Obituary: Saleemul Huq, a passionate voice for climate justice

Terry Cannon, Lars Otto Naess, Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava, John Thompson - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Arctic climate science is caught in the middle of geopolitical tension

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

The case for an Africa-Europe trade-climate-development triangle

Bruce Byiers - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Climate justice in trade

Lorenzo Cotula - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Moving Europe and Africa towards more common ground on climate and energy

Alfonso Medinilla, Afaf Zarkik, Larabi Jaïdi - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

SDGs trade-offs associated with voluntary sustainability standards: A case study from the coffee sector in Costa Rica

Sustainable Development
Jorge Sellare et al - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF

Achieving a nature- and people-positive future

One Earth
David O. Obura, Fabrice DeClerck, Peter H. Verburg, Joyeeta Gupta et al. - IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft)

Managing Climate Risk: The Role of Financial Regulators in the Net Zero Transition

Aldersgate Group - Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Defining climate vulnerability in the context of Loss & Damage: a scientific, legal and political question

Ariadna Anisimov & Lola Vallejo - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

How do climate shocks impact children’s development: evidence from Vietnam

Vu Thi Thu Thu - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)

Climate Policy and the Economy: Evidence from Europe's Carbon Pricing Initiatives

Diego R. Känzig, Maximilian Konradt - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Climate Change Adaptation and the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in Tanzania: Policy Trends and Smallholder Livelihoods

Progress in Development Studies
Ronald Boniphace Ndesanjo, Shilpa Muliyil Asokan - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Action on climate resilience is business critical

Tom Mitchell - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Urbanising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

David Satterthwaite & David Dodman - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Climate action is being held back by ‘hidden handbrakes’

Tom Mitchell - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Economic value and latent demand for agricultural drought forecast: Emerging market for weather and climate information in Central-Southern Nigeria

in: Climate Risk Management
David Awolala et al. - Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI)

Tracking the money for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Seonmi Choi et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Cooperative adaptive management of the Nile River with climate and socio-economic uncertainties

in: Nature Climate Change
Mohammed Basheer et al. - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Gindo Tampubolon - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Deciding whether it’s too late: How climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a post-apocalyptic present

in: Geoforum
Joost de Moor & Jens Marquardt - Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Assessment of local climate strategies in Hungarian citie

Urban Climate
Ágnes Óvári, András Donát Kovács & Jenő Zsolt Farkas - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

On the fast track to climate negotiating: learning from my mentor

Olivier Ishimwe - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Reflections on COP15 and the ‘super years’ for people, nature and climate

Nicola Sorsby and Ebony Holland - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts

The Journal of Peasant Studies
Seshia, Shaila; Silva Garzon, Diego Enrique - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

COP27: were the climate-vulnerable finally heard in Egypt?

Pape Lamine Diouf & Lina Yassin - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Climate resilience and sustainable sovereign debt

Leora Klapper - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Lobbying as if it mattered – an update: The Egypt Climate Summit and the Bleeding Edge of Demanding Corporate Political Responsibility

Dieter Zinnbauer - Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)

Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice

IDS Bulletin
Amber Huff, Lars Otto Naess (eds) - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

The unsung heroes for nature and climate

Xiaoting Hou Jones & Yiching Song - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Climate justice – where do the religiously marginalised fit in?

Mariz Tadros - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh: from climate frustration to radical implementation?

Lara Lázaro Touza et al. - Real Instituto Elcano

Looking ahead to COP27 - from climate pledges to action

Etienne Romsom & Kathryn McPhail - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Climate Transparency Report 2022

Climate Transparency - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)
This report provides a concise overview of the key facts and figures on the state of climate performance of the G20 in a comparative stocktake. The analysis covers adaptation, mitigation and finance, with 20 detailed country profiles of all G20 members and a summary of key findings, especially highlighting the link between the climate emergency and energy crisis. It has been developed by experts from 16 partner organisations from the majority of the G20 countries
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Climate and debt

Patrick Bolton, Mitu Gulati, Ugo Panizza, Lee C. Buchheit, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Jeromin Zettelmeyer - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Blog#14: Coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies - Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene

Helena Ribeiro - Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York (IGDC)

Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority

Duncan Macqueen - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Local responses to climate-related non-economic losses and damages: a case study in Burigoalini and Gabura Union, Southwest Bangladesh

Douwe van Schie et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

After the Paris Agreement, the debt deluge: why lending for climate drives debt distress

Sejal Patel et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Emergency framing for climate, environment and livelihoods - Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene

Lindsay Stringer - Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York (IGDC)

Integrating climate futures into evaluation

Clarisse Marsac et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Social protection and informal job market reform for tackling climate migration nexus

Ritu Bharadwaj et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Public participation in climate budgeting: learning from experiences in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal

Sejal Patel et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

From what works to what will work. Integrating climate risks into sustainable development evaluation – a practical guide

Emilie Beauchamp et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Averting the crises: how a new approach to debt could raise US$400 billion for climate and nature

Sejal Patel - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Agrarian Climate Justice: Challenges for the New Petro/Marquez government in Colombia

Itayosara Rojas, Darío Fajardo - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Domestic and international climate policies: Complementarity or disparity?

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Lauri Peterson - Department of Government Uppsala University

Low-carbon transition in Latin America: what are the risks and the main constraints?

Guilherme Magacho, Antoine Godin, Marion Hémar & Emmanuelle Mansart Monat - OECD Development Centre OECD/DC

Placing people at the heart of climate action

PLOS Climate
Patrick Devine-Wright et al. - Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Money where it matters for people, nature and climate

Driving change through support for local level decision making over resources and finance
Ebony Holland et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate

Ebony Holland & Sejal Patel - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa

WIDER Working Paper 2022/57
Aimable Nsabimana - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Tackling sovereign debt for effective climate action: Towards a European agenda

Karim Karaki, Alfonso Medinilla - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Unpacking 'new climate wars'. Actors and drivers of conflict in the Sahel

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Boubacar Ba - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
As violence and insecurity increase in the Sahel, understanding the main causes and drivers of conflicts is of growing importance. In policy circles, the idea that climate change is causing violence and displacement is increasingly articulated in the popularised term of ‘climate wars’. This DIIS Report nuances this mainstream idea by arguing that violence and conflict in the Sahel are caused not by climate change, but by the presence of armed groups, jihadist insurgencies and military interventions with diverging political and ideological agendas.
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Beyond 2% - From climate philanthropy to climate justice philanthropy

Edouard Morena - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Social protection to enhance climate resilience: what works where?

Ritu Bharadwaj - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Firm foundations for child-centred climate resilience

Ritu Bharadwaj - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Climate finance coordination from the global to the local - Norm localization and the politics of climate finance coordination in Zambia

Journal of Development Studies, 58, 2022
Mikkel Funder & Kendra Dupuy - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Directing innovation towards a low-carbon future

Joëlle Noailly - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Not just playing: The politics of designing games for impact on anticipatory climate governance

Geoforum
Joost M.Vervoort, Manjana Milkoreit, Lisette van Beek et al. -