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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2014This report assesses the vulnerability to climate change of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.DocumentClimate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Lami Town, Republic of Fiji
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2014This abridged report looks at the climate vulnerability of Lami Town in the Republic of Fiji. Urban communities in Fiji are located in highly hazard-prone areas in the coastal zone. Storm surges and sea-level rise can affect settlements, food production and infrastructure.DocumentSustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience (Human Development Report 2014)
United Nations Development Programme, 20142014 Human Development Report on reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience.DocumentClimate-smart development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change
World Bank, 2014This report argues that smart development policies and projects can also slow the pace of adverse climate changes and that the objectives of economic development and climate protection can compliment one another.DocumentSustainable mega-events in developing countries: experiences and insights from host cities in South Africa, India and Brazil
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2011The hosting of mega-events has a tremendous effect on developing and emerging countries. These can be positive in terms of economic investment, job creation, skills development and international branding but also can be negative in terms of their environmental footprint, for example via carbon emissions caused by international visitors to the event.DocumentZero poverty… think again: Impact of climate change on development efforts
Overseas Development Institute, 2014This paper reviews knowledge about the impacts of climate change on eight development goal areas and argues that it is essential for climate change to be addressed in order not to compromise development efforts.DocumentAchieving sustainable development in Africa: Progress, challenges and prospects
International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2014This study analyses the achievement of sustainable development in Africa using the qualitative paradigm. Using secondary data, the study results are taken to suggest mixed indicators for the progress of Sustainable Development in Africa.DocumentRapid desk based evidence search and gap analysis on environmental degradation and pollution in developing countries
Evidence on Demand, 2013This study has collated information on the role that pollution (air, water and soil pollution) has played in environmental degradation and the consequences of such degradation for human well-being, poverty.DocumentImpact of Chars Livelihoods Programme on the disaster resilience of Chars communities
Chars Livelihoods Programme, 2014The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in North West Bangladesh. It aims to improve the livelihoods, incomes and food security of at least one million poor and vulnerable women, children and men living on the chars.DocumentThe Chronic Poverty Report 2014-2015: The road to zero extreme poverty
Overseas Development Institute, 2014Achieving ‘zero poverty’ is a long and hard task, but this comprehensive empirical report published by the Overseas Development Institute argues that it is possible by focusing on the three arms of the ‘zero poverty tripod’: tackling chronic poverty, stopping impoverishment, and sustaining poverty escapes.Pages