All pages with keywords: development
Adaptation to climate change
This article reviews the economic and analytical challenges of adaptation to climate change. Adaptation to climate risks that can no longer be avoided is an important aspect of the global … read more »
Book launch | The economics of climate-resilient development
Professor Sam Fankhauser and Dr Thomas McDermott host a panel debate to launch their new edited volume ‘The Economics of Climate-Resilient Development‘. The panel includes a number of the contributors to the … read more »
Grantham seminar | Prof. John A. Mathews: “Greening of industry: China’s green development model as driver”
Grantham seminar introduced and chaired by Dimitri Zenghelis, Co-Head of Climate Policy at the Grantham Research Institute Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising hundreds … read more »
Driving sustainable development through better infrastructure: Key elements of a transformation program
Paper produced with The Brookings Institute and The New Climate Economy The U.N. Conference on Financing for Development at Addis Ababa provides a historic opportunity to reach consensus on a … read more »
Safeguarding development aid against climate change: evaluating progress and identifying best practice
Nicola Ranger, Alex Harvey and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels. Forthcoming.
The emerging geographies of climate justice
Climate justice is a well-used concept within the international climate debate yet it has often remained little more than a static ideal. This paper brings together … read more »
Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations
This article explores the principles that should guide efforts to raise finance for climate action in developing countries. The main conclusions are that, first, there is an important role … read more »
Self-interested low-carbon growth in G-20 emerging markets
This article suggests that some or all G-20 Emerging Markets (GEMs = Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey) could seize the climate policy agenda … read more »
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