Project

Poverty and Adaptation Seminar Network

A seminar series with meetings being held during 2008 and 2009, including alongside major international events such as the UNFCCC meetings.

Objectives:

  • Tackle the theoretical and policy challenge of making climate adaptation work for the poor
  • Reposition the theory and discourse of climate adaptation at multiple scales, recognising the importance of science and knowledge towards pro-poor adaptation

Plan for Meetings:

1. Introductory session2. Defining / measuring pro poor adaptation3. Pro poor adaptive outcomes to mitigation 4. Social protection 5. Mainstreaming 6. Governance and accountability 7. Scientific information 8. Financing flows

Recent work

Journal Article

Poverty in a Changing Climate

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Climate change gets attention across the world. IPCC findings call for radical limits to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations responsible for human-induced climate change.

1 September 2008