Search

National governments, with development partners, have an important role to play in supporting adaptation and climate-resilient development among private actors – households, producers and small businesses – in the semi-arid lands of developing countries, argues this brief, a final output from the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) project. Read more

Declan Conway joined the Grantham Research Institute as a Professorial Research Fellow on the 28th October 2013. Background Declan’s research cuts... Read more

Last week families from across the EU launched the first strategic climate court case against the European Union (EU). Some... Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected food security across the world. As governments respond in different ways both with regards to... Read more

Africa’s struggle to cope with the impacts of climate change has received a major boost this month with the very... Read more

A key goal of urban transportation planning is to provide people with access to a greater number of opportunities for... Read more

Note: New and updated 2015 edition available The GLOBE Climate Legislation Study is the most comprehensive audit of climate legislation... Read more

This paper outlines experiences with Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP), which has been used in Malawi as a method to bring together producers and users of weather and climate information to co-produce sector-specific advisories of weather information to make it both useful and usable to the different user groups, including farmers. Read more

The analysis suggests that the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets mostly create conditions that aid the achievement of each other within development corridors but that there are trade-offs between some goals and other development gains. The authors signal priority areas for investment, policy reorientation and strengthened safeguards, to maximise positive SDG interactions and minimise negative ones. Read more