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Climate Lite
Making climate change and development issues easy to digest
Climate Lite has been created especially for policymakers and field practitioners who are not climate change experts but need to understand the key issues.
The impacts of climate change are already being felt by people across the developing world. Climate Lite is a series of short briefings and videos on the latest key issues that link climate change with international development.
The series is produced by the Climate Change and Development Centre at IDS.
Our contributors
International experts from across the climate change field are contributing to Climate Lite. If you would like to become a contributor please contact m.khamis@ids.ac.uk.
Climate Lite Index
- Getting the US Back on Board an International Climate Regime: Legal Options and Risks
- Low-carbon Development: What is it and can it be achieved?
- Making Climate Change research work for Vulnerable Communities: the case in the Sahel
- Communities as Agents and Shapers of their own Climate Adaptation
- What Climate Science is Telling us: Implications for the Development Sector
- Future climate change in China: risks and responses
- Climate Change and migration: how to estimate future flows?
- Reducing Carbon Emissions: China's position
- Transferring Clean Technologies to Developing Countries: why so much disagreement?
- The Role of Social Protection in Adapting to Climate Change
- Poverty in a Changing Climate: Building the Case for Pro-poor Adaptation
Getting the US Back on Board an International Climate Regime: Legal Options and Risks
Farhana Yamin explains what form of legal agreement could bring the US back into an international regime without compromising what has already been achieved.
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Low-carbon Development: What is it and can it be achieved?
Jim Watson introduces the concept of 'low-carbon development' and explains what international policies are needed to support it.
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Making Climate Change research work for Vulnerable Communities:
the case in the Sahel
Emmanuel Seck gives concrete examples of how African smallholder farmers can benefit from scientific knowledge and calls for researchers to work closer with communities for an effective response to climate change.
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Communities as Agents and Shapers of their own Climate Adaptation
Petra Tschakert challenges assumptions that the 'most vulnerable' to climate change are passive victims and the role of local collective learning in the climate change response.
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What is Climate Science telling the Development Community?
Saleemul Huq on the implications of the 4th assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for development.
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Future climate change in China: risks and responses
Declan Conway on China's short and long-term risks from climate change and potential policy responses.
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Climate Change and migration: how to estimate future flows?
Chris Smith on understanding the factors influencing migration and how we could get an accurate picture of future migration flows due to climate change.
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Reducing Carbon Emissions: China's position
Frauke Urban presents China's perspectives on reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change.
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Transferring Clean Technologies to Developing Countries: why so much disagreement?
David Ockwell explains why developed and developing countries do not reach an international agreement on the transfer of clean technologies.
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The Role of Social Protection in Adapting to Climate Change
Katy Oswald explains why comprehensive social protection could provide significant opportunities to help people adapt to climate change.
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Poverty in a Changing Climate: Building the Case for Pro-poor Adaptation
Tom Tanner on making adaptation sensitive to the needs of the groups most affected by climate change and double as a pathway out of poverty for them.
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