ICNARC report on COVID-19 in critical care
<p>This report presents analyses of data on patients critically ill with confirmed COVID-19 reported to ICNARC up to 4pm on 16 April 2020 from critical care units participating in the Case Mix Programme
London
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Sustainable energy security: strategic risks and opportunities for business
This latest report produced by Lloyd's & Chatham House outlines key trends affecting global energy supplies over the next 10 - 20 years, identifying risks associated with both resource constraints and transition to a lower carbon economy.
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Making the most of agricultural investment: a survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders
This report examines a range of business models that can be used to structure agricultural investments in lower- and middle-income countries, and that provide an alternative to large-scale land acquisitions (plantations that are wholly owned by, or on long leases to, investors without inclusion of smallholders or small enterprises in the value chain).
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Does disaster insurance have a role in climate change adaptation?
This briefing explores the current debates around insurance mechanisms to assess how disaster insurance supports community responses to climate change, and calls for priority to be given to community-based disaster risk reduction.
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Infrastructure 100
KPMG
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Social accountability: tools and mechanisms for improved urban water services
The WaterAid paper Water utilities that work for poor people
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The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009
Climate policy, as it has been understood and practised by many governments of the world under the Kyoto Protocol approach, has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in 15 years.
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Channels for change: private water and the urban poor
For the rapidly urbanising developing world, safe and affordable water is key to health and livelihoods, as well as meeting the Millennium Development Goals. But providing it demands innovative models. Where the context allows and the approach is
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Electric vehicles: charged with potential
Electric vehicles hold the promise, if widely adopted, of drastically reducing carbon emissions from surface transport and could, therefore, form a major plank in the UK
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Social assessment of conservation initiatives: a review of rapid methodologies
Areas of land and sea are increasingly being marked out for protection in response to various demands: to tackle biodiversity loss, to prevent deforestation as a climate change mitigation strategy, and to restore declining fisheries.
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Climate change adaptation in developing countries: issues and perspectives for economic analysis
This paper is intended to provide some guidance to the policy-oriented researchers