Climate finance shadow report 2020
The true value of money provided by developed countries to help developing nations respond to the climate crisis may be just a third of the amount reported, according to Oxfam estimates published. Oxfam’s
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Cost of a plate of food 2020
<p>A basic meal is far beyond the reach of millions of people in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic joins conflict, climate change and economic troubles in pushing up levels of hunger around the world, according to this new study by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). This report highlights the countries where a simple meal such as rice and beans costs the most, when compared with people’s incomes.</p>
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2020 state of climate services: risk information and early warning systems
Over the past 50 years, more than 11,000 disasters have been attributed to weather, climate and water-related hazards, involving 2 million deaths and US$ 3.6 trillion in economic losses. While the average
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Barriers and opportunities for gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture adoption in Northern Uganda
This Info Note discusses gender-based barriers to climate-smart agriculture adoption in Northern Uganda and the opportunities for gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/InfoNote
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Vulnerability to poverty following extreme weather events in Malawi
Severe weather shocks recurrently hit Malawi, and they adversely affect the incomes of many farm households as well as small businesses. With climate change, the frequency of extreme weather events is
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Protect a generation: climate security for India’s children
The growing instances of extreme weather events like floods, cyclones, erosions in disaster prone areas increases the socio economic and psychosocial vulnerabilities of children living in these geographies
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Urban adaptation in Europe: how cities and towns respond to climate change
EEA assessment report presenting the status quo of adaptation to climate change at the local government level, with particular focus on cities. The assessment presents the overview of climate risks to
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Carbon Pricing For The Paris Target: Closing The Gap With Output-Based Pricing
<p>This report updates and extends PBO’s analysis of the additional carbon pricing needed to achieve Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions target in 2030 under the Paris Agreement. Under
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Poverty and shared prosperity 2020: reversals of fortune
For almost 25 years, extreme poverty was steadily declining. Now, for the first time in a generation, the quest to end poverty has suffered its worst setback. This setback is largely due to major challenges
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Company cars: how European governments are subsidising pollution and climate change
Company cars are vehicles owned by companies or other organisations - not by individuals - and they represent the main market share for new cars in Europe. T&E has commissioned the fleet market research
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Raising the cost of climate action? Investor-state dispute settlement and compensation for stranded fossil fuel assets
Global efforts to combat climate change will require a transition to renewable energy and government action to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. If followed through, such action
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Overview of recently adopted mitigation policies and climate-relevant policy responses to COVID-19
This report is divided in three sections showcasing recent mitigation policy developments, climate-relevant responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and an overview of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
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Applying climate services to transformative adaptation in agriculture
As climate change increasingly affects agriculture around the world, reliable, timely, and targeted information about weather and climate conditions is becoming an ever more urgent requirement for adaptation
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Climate neutrality claims How to distinguish between climate leadership and greenwashing
A growing number of countries and companies are setting climate neutrality and net-zero targets. Many countries’ and companies’ efforts towards climate neutrality play a positive role contributing to the
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Africa SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2020
<p>The 2020 Africa SDG Index and Dashboards Report provides an assessment of where African countries stand with respect to the SDGs and their progress toward the goals, with the additional lens of “leave
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Net zero cold chains for food
<p>The Carbon Trust has released a discussion paper outlining the challenge of reducing emissions from rapidly growing food cold chains and how philanthropy can help ‘bend the curve’ while
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Climate Insights 2020: Policies and Politics
<p>A number of policies are extremely popular with Americans in 2020 and have been consistently popular across past surveys as well. For example, huge numbers of Americans favor government effort to shift
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Fostering peri-urban resilience: Gender-responsive approaches in northern India
<p>Uttar Pradesh is one of India’s poorest states and its farmers have experienced considerable changes in the climate in recent years – from longer summers and harsher winters to much less
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Confronting Carbon Inequality: Putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery
<p>The report assesses the consumption emissions of different income groups between 1990 and 2015 – 25 years when humanity doubled the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. During 2020, and
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Climate change analysis in the investment process
This report aims to help improve knowledge and understanding about how climate risk can be applied to financial analysis and portfolio management. It then informs practitioners how best to incorporate