Climate Change

Countries have not yet agreed where finance on the scale needed for climate change adaptation and mitigation will come from. This briefing paper focuses on innovative sources of climate finance and the opportunities to make progress in 2011.

This study examines the vulnerability of farmers and herders in agro-pastoral and pastoral areas in Ethiopia and Mali, and shows how they are adapting to climate variability and change.

A new short booklet looking at global climate change and how partners can use different advocacy tactics to help tackle the problem at the local, national or international level.

A summary 2-side version of Tearfund’s full report that addresses integrated, cross-sectoral and multi-agency approaches to climate change adaptation.

Building on examples of some progress in developing countries,Tearfund presents in this report practical building blocks towardsestablishing integrated, cross-sectoral and multi-agency approaches to adaptation.

This is a poster, summarizing the key findings and recommendations of the full report Changing Climates Changing Lives, about farmers and herders adapting to climate change in Mali and Ethiopia.

This study examines the vulnerability of farmers and herders in agro-pastoral and pastoral areas in Ethiopia and Mali, and shows how they are adapting to climate variability and change.

This study reveals the huge gulf that exists between the amount the UK and other EU member states are prepared to spend domestically on adaptation, and the level of finance currently available to enable developing countries to adapt to climate change...

This report gives Tearfund’s views on the global emissions cuts needed at Copenhagen to keep global warming below two degrees and prevent catastrophe for poor people, including the different responsibilities of developed and developing countries to c...

This report argues that COP 15 in Copenhagen must deliver a coherent framework that massively scales-up action on adaptation. Tearfund believes that a global Adaptation Framework must be agreed to strengthen international activities and commitments t...

Written with Tearfund support, this Stamp Out Poverty report assesses 12 proposals for financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries; examining and comparing their potential to meet the massive costs of climate change.

This paper outlines Tearfund’s policy approach to Biofuels. Tearfund believes that the increased use of agricultural crops to produce biofuels is causing more harm than good. Although there is the need for urgent action to tackle climate change, biof...

This report is based on empirical evidence from case studies undertaken in Niger and north-east Brazil, and aims to identify how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the most poor and vulnerable people. It dr...

This report assesses whether the carbon market is working to deliver emissions cuts and to bring sustainable development in the developing world, and makes recommendations for improvement.

This report looks at similarities and differences between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and discusses the rationale for adopting a more integrated approach to these issues.

Written in time for the 2007 UN climate change conference, this report argues that negotiations on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol must begin at COP 13 in Bali and be concluded by COP 15 in 2009. Adaptation should be a fundamental,...

 

Released in the run up to the G8 summit, this paper explains why global average temperature rise must be kept as far below 2°C as possible (from pre-industrial levels), based on a review of evidence of the impacts at different temperature ranges. I...

This report describes the environmental context of Darfur and makes practical recommendations for the relief effort.  It also raises questions about wider relief practice.

A discussion paper aimed at improving understanding about adaptation to climate change within development agencies, their partners and other institutions/individuals working in the development community.  In particular it is designed to stimulate bro...

This report reviews what progress has been made by developing country governments and donor agencies in mainstreaming climate adaptation into development planning.  It examines barriers to further progress and provides recommendations on how these ba...

Este informe revela que las comunidades pobres alrededor del mundo son extremadamente vulnerables a los cambios climaticos a nivel local.  Estos cambios son el resultado de un numero de factores diferentes, pero en muchos de los casos, la gestion amb...

This report reveals that poor communities around the world are extremely vulnerable to climate changes that are happening at the local level.

This paper is divided into four sections covering the causes of climate change and general predictions of its impacts.