Climate and environment
Ensuring the environment is managed in a way that helps to reduce poverty.
Climate change - more information
Videos
Watch videos about ordinary Bangladeshis coping with the effects of climate change:
Watch a film of how DFID is helping to preserve the Congo basin rainforest
Watch award-winning films of the impacts of illegal logging -
Handcrafted films
Publications
Degrees of Separation?
A new booklet from DFID showing the links between
climate change and poverty.
Technology
Leapfrogging: A review of the evidence
(443 kb)
Can developing countries leapfrog to low carbon energy technologies?
Climate Change, Poverty and Low Carbon Energy (1866 kb)
A report exploring ways to tackle poverty and climate change through low carbon energy programmes
Climate Change and Poverty Keysheets
DFIDs White Paper 3 (Ch. 7)
Working internationally to tackle climate change (1349 kb)
Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa (2240 kb)
Climate change in Uganda
(393 kb)
Climate change kills (3532 kb) - maps showing deaths caused by climate change, and world carbon emissions
Impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture (771 kb) - water availability and socio-economic scenarios on cereal production
Impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture (594 kb) - rural livelihoods and vulnerability to climate hazards in Ningxia
Recent DFID press releases on climate change
19 January 2009
Douglas Alexander makes a rallying call for a global deal on climate change
6 January 2009
Planned Centre for Climate and Development
12 December 2008
Action on forestry emissions at Poznan - UK announces £100 million to help protect forest environment
10 September 2008
Time is running out for people of Bangladesh hit by climate change
7 July 2008
Study launched into carbon footprint of South African fruit and wine
29 May 2008
UK to help Caribbean islands weather the storms
6 February 2008
Ten-fold boost to climate change research funding
19 December 2007
Douglas Alexander calls on greater climate change support for the poor
11 December 2007
UK announces new study on climate change adaptation at Bali
11 December 2007
UK pledges £15 million to tackle deforestation
29 November 2007
Climate
change deal must include action on deforestation
27 November 2007
UK Development Minister welcomes UN Human Development Report
17 November 2007
DFID minister welcomes climate change report
7 November 2007
Africa ‘most affected’ by climate change
Links to other websites
- The Congo Basin Forest Fund
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- The Stern Review
- The Office of Climate Change - working across Government to support analytical work on climate change and the development of policy and strategy.
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- The 2007 Human Development report which warned that climate change threatens "unprecedented reversals" in poverty reduction, health and education.
- Calculate your carbon footprint and find out how you can make some simple changes to tackle climate change
- Summaries of DFID Climate and Environment Research from IDS Knowledge Services
- Climate
Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme
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The
economic crisis and the two great challenges of the 21st century - Speech by
Sir Nicholas Stern at the 2009 DFID conference
A section of Indonesian rainforest felled in a large-scale logging venture. Image - Rob Huibers/Panos Pictures
More about climate change
Forget about making poverty history. Climate change will make poverty permanent.
Nazmul Chowdhury Practical Action
