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People – particularly poor people – struggle with its impacts every day. Whilst world leaders argue over how to tackle this immense issue, one thing must be agreed on now: the level of change the world needs to avoid. For millions, ‘safe’ levels of change have already been exceeded […] View resource Briefing paper Paying for People: Financing the skilled workers needed to deliver health and education services for all 22/04/2007 4 documents Languages: English, French, German, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Education financing Overview Millions of people are dying, sick, or out of school because there are not enough teachers, nurses, and doctors in poor countries. Some poor-country governments have doubled expenditure on health and education since 2000 but still cannot afford to pay for these workers, so aid must plug the gap. But current aid is failing poor […] View resource Briefing paper Signing Away The Future: How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development 20/03/2007 7 documents 46 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Trade policy Overview The quiet advance of trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries threatens to deny developing countries a favourable foothold in the global economy. Driven by the USA and the European Union, these agreements impose far-reaching rules that place severe restrictions on the very policies developing countries need in order to fight poverty. View resource Book Leaving Disasters Behind: A guide to disaster risk reduction in Ethiopia 15/01/2007 8 documents 210 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR Overview This book is intended for staff from government agencies, non-government organizations, academic and research institutions and also donors who work in or for the disaster-prone areas of Ethiopia. The book will also be useful for those working in other disaster-prone regions in Africa and beyond. It provides guidance on how to reduce disaster risk using […] View resource Book Africa Up in Smoke? 2: An update report on Africa and global warming from the working group on climate change and development 30/10/2006 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Climate finance HIV and AIDS Overview Too much or too little rain can be a matter of life or death in Africa. At different times and in different places across the continent, climate change threatens both. This briefing brings up to date the original report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Africa – Up in smoke?, released in […] View resource Book Up In Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean: The threat from climate change to the environment and human development 29/08/2006 1 documents 44 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Climate finance Conflict Disaster risk reduction DRR Livelihoods Overview The report confirms that largely regular and predictable temperature and rainfall patterns, are changing, becoming less predictable and often more extreme. It catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation ranging from drought in the Amazon to floods in Haiti and elsewhere; vanishing glaciers in Colombia to extreme cold in the Andes; and hurricanes, […] View resource Briefing note EuroMed: Ensuring a fair deal 26/11/2005 4 documents 9 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Fair trade Trade policy Overview When the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euro-Med) was announced in Barcelona with a great fanfare in 1995, it was hoped that it would herald a new age in relations between the European Union (EU) and its ten southern Mediterranean partner countries, bringing unprecedented opportunities in the social, economic, and political fields. View resource Book Africa Up in Smoke?: The second report from the working group on climate change and development 01/06/2005 1 documents 44 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Climate finance Livelihoods Overview Following on from the Up in Smoke? report, this booklet uses pictures, graphics, and case studies to detail the impact that climate change is already having on Africa and the threat this poses to human development. This Report finds that concerns about the effects of climate change on rural African societies are more than justified. […] View resource Research report Climate Change Impacts on Development: A note of Oxfam’s experiences for the Stern Review 01/01/2005 1 documents 13 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Overview Climate change – in the sense of rapid, large-scale and noticeable climate change, unusual in people’s experience – is happening already. This is having important economic and social effects. It is making life more precarious for many people, particularly those who are already the poorest. Yet people are not passive, but are changing their lives […] View resource Book Up in Smoke? Threats from and responses to the impact of global warming on human development 01/09/2004 1 documents 60 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Climate finance Conflict Development methods Disasters Overview Informative and readable, this compelling report from some of the world’s leading environmental and development organisations expresses concerns about how global warming affects people’s lives, particularly those living in developing countries, and how it could threaten attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. It features case studies with photos from communities around the world, and details […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 … Page 35 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know