The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has published a new guide to the governance of climate finance written by a team of IIED researchers. The guide reviews emerging approaches to climate
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has published a new guide to the environmental impacts of urban areas authored by IIED's David Satterthwaite. The publication, entitled 'Urban poverty,
<p>This document contains summary sheet of low carbon economy on Poverty reduction. Low carbon development can potentially contribute to poverty reduction by improving access to affordable clean energy by the poor and to sustainable agriculture.
This document contains summary sheet on energy systems in a low carbon economy. There is a significant opportunity for developing countries to leap-frog the carbon-intensive energy pathways of developed countries, thereby helping to mitigate the effects of climate change while generating multiple developmental co-benefits.
This document contains summary sheet on transport in a low carbon economy.
This document contains summary sheet on water and low carbon development. Water is vital for economic and social progress in developing nations, and the core natural resource for sustaining an ecological balance in human ecosystems. The low carbon economy could overcome some barriers to achieving water security goals, but it could also challenge water security.
This document contains summary sheet of low carbon development and cities. Cities and urban areas contain most of the productive and consumptive activities that are contributing to climate change. Indeed, almost all growth, both demographic and economic, is now occurring in and around urban settlements.
This document contains summary sheet of low carbon development and fossil fuel subsidies. Inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies hinder economic growth and low carbon development as they encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets and impede investment in clean energy sources.
<p>The objective of this publication is to highlight the global and regional trends in urban development, identify key issues, projected risks, impacts and opportunities in the light of climate change through case study examples from cities in India and throughout the world.
