Policy Research Working Paper 5568: Adaptation has long been neglected in the debate and policies surrounding climate change. However, increasing awareness of climate change has led many stakeholders to look for the best way to limit its consequences and has resulted in a large number of initiatives related to adaptation, particularly at the local level.

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Is it worse to be swallowed by the sea or racked by famine? As climate change tightens its grip on the world, institutions charged with protecting the most vulnerable nations could be faced with just such a question. Because there is no international consensus for ranking the possibilities of future devastation — and because there

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Environment Ministers from BASIC countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – will meet here on Saturday to assess the post Cancun climate change policy and actions at the global and national level and discuss coordination going forward. Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh said: “Over the last 15 months, BASIC

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Curbing sooty particles emitted by burning biomass and smog caused by traffic fumes would slow the onslaught of climate change and deliver many health benefits, a UN report said here on Wednesday. Removing these sources of pollution by 2030 would take 0.5 degrees Celsius off the expected 1.0 C rise in global warming by mid-century,

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Bangladesh is one of the world’s most densely populated countries, and for the first-time visitor, the most immediate and striking impression of its capital city is often made by the traffic, Associate Professor of Political Science Jeremy Elkins told an audience in Bryn Mawr’s Campus Center on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Elkins was explaining the presence

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By giving well-being a central role in policymaking, the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan has staged a trial that has gripped the world. Dipika Chhetri reports on the environmental impacts. In global discussions about climate change and environment, the word “happiness” is surprisingly rare. But in Bhutan, happiness rhetoric is uncommonly common. The phrase “Gross National

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