Evaluating Climate Change: Pro-Poor Perspectives

Perspectives on climate change and sustainability

Perspectives on Beetles and Climate Change

The response of beetles to climate change during the Quaternary Period is reviewed for the purpose of evaluating their future response to global warming. Beetles responded to Quaternary climatic changes mostly by dispersal, which ultimately led to large scale changes in geographic distribution. Fragmentation and isolation of populations associated with climate change did not result in either hi...

Evaluating the Political Economy for Pro-Poor Sanitation Investments

PROBLEM There is ongoing concern that governments at many levels are not devoting enough attention and resources to sanita tion services, particularly when compared to spending on water supply and other infrastructure services. Additionally, existing sanitation investments and service provision are not often pro-poor. Efforts to increase access to sanitation infrastructure often benefit better-...

Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change: paleo-perspectives for future climate change

The Pole-Equator-Pole (PEP) projects of the PANASH (Paleoclimates of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere) programme have significantly advanced our understanding of past climate change on a global basis and helped to integrate paleo-science across regions and research disciplines. PANASH science allows us to constrain predictions for future climate change and to contribute to the management of...

Climate Change, Green Growth and Aid Allocation to Poor Countries

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but current poverty still high in the developing world, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor. Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic growth, but growth impacts the environment and increases CO2 emissions. So can greener growth that is more climate-resilient and less environmentally damaging...