Tackling rural poverty, together

Key Readings

Key Readings

The World Bank

World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change.   

Climate Change Response Strategies for Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21^st Century (Agriculture and Rural Development Discussion Paper 42). Mar 2009

Climate Change - Adaptation and Mitigation in Development Programs. Jan 2009

Adaptation to and Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture. In: World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. 201–202. Oct 2007

World Food Programme

  Climate Change and Hunger: Responding to the challenge

Key Links

Key Links

Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Climate change: a development challenge

This webpage outlines ADB’s approach to investing in climate change adaptation and mitigation in line with its new Strategy 2020.
www.adb.org/Climate-Change/default.asp

Department for International Development (DFID) - Climate change

This webpage details DFID's climate change concerns and its approach to mainstreaming them in its development cooperation www.dfid.gov.uk/Global-Issues/How-we-fight-Poverty/Climate-and-Environment/…

European Commission (EC) - Climate change and developing countries

This webpage outlines the measures the EC is taking to help stabilise world temperatures while mainstreaming climate change in international development assistance agendas.
ec.europa.eu/development/policies/9interventionareas/environment/climate/…

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) - Climate change

This webpage highlights the importance of reducing and removing emissions from the agricultural sector, while ensuring food security and economic growth are addressed in international policy frameworks. www.fao.org/climatechange/home/en

Global Environment Facility (GEF) - Climate change

This webpage outlines GEF’s climate change mitigation projects and priorities.
www.gefweb.org/interior.aspx?id=232&ekmensel=c580fa7b_48_126_btnlink

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative (SECCI)

This is the portal of the IDB’s initiative for sustainable investment and policy development in key sectors, including agriculture, energy, and carbon markets, which are either especially vulnerable to climate change or potential vehicles for GHG mitigation activities, in Latin America and the Caribbean.
www.iadb.org/secci

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Climate change: a development challenge

This webpage outlines IFAD's approach to streamlining climate change concerns in its mission to combat rural poverty.
www.ifad.org/climate/index.htm

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Agriculture and climate change

This webpage summarises and links to a series of IFPRI policy briefs, recently prepared to frame discussions on the need to address agriculture and land use in COP15 agreements.
www.ifpri.org/2020/focus/focus16.asp

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Thus webpage provides access to all IPCC work and publications.
www.ipcc.ch

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - Climate change

This webpage gives an overview of the OECD’s approach toward climate change and provides links to Viewable policy documents and studies, as well as comprehensive indicators and data analysis tools.
www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_34361_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Poverty Environment Net - Climate change

Index of poverty/environment knowledge and resources.
www.povertyenvironment.net

Her Majesty’s Treasury - Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change

This is the online portal of the Stern Report, which can be Viewed by section or in whole.
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_index.htm

Gateway to the UN System’s Work on Climate Change

This webpage is a one-stop shop for links to all relevant work on climate change undertaken within the UN system.
www.un.org/climatechange

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) - Division for Sustainable Development

This webpage provides an overview of UNDESA's sustainability work, with links to searchable databases of case studies and other publications on climate change and affected sectors.
www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_cc/cc_index.shtml

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Climate change

This webpage outlines UNDP's approach for aligning human development and climate change management efforts by promoting mitigation and adaptation activities that do not slow down but rather accelerate socio-economic progress.
www.undp.org/climatechange

UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

This webpage provides an overview of UNEP's thematic focus on climate change and relevant resources.
www.unep.org/Themes/climatechange

UN Framework Convenion on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

This is the web portal of the UNFCCC, outlining all climate change negotiations past and leading up to COP15.
unfccc.int/2860.php

USAID - Global Climate Change Programme

This webpage details USAID’s approach toward integrating climate change into development by working with a cross-section of actors from different sectors to build on the relative strengths of each.
www.usaid.gov/our_work/environment/climate

World Agroforestry Centre

This webpage provides acess to information and research on climate change in the context of global agroforestry.
www.worldagroforestry.org/af1/index.php

World Bank

This webpage is the on-ramp to the World bank's work and research on climate change and development, including agriculture as a vulnerable sector.
go.worldbank.org/W13H8ZXSD1

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

This webpage provides access to a range of scientific and technical data for predicting the effects of climate change on developing countries and regions.
www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html