A Climate of Conflict: The Links Between Climate Change, Peace and War

Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. That is the broad scientific consensus expressed in the Fourth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. This report takes this finding as its...

ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins is working to raise productivity and income of rural households in the humid tropics without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services. ASB is a consortium of over 90...

Acting together Rio brochure: International co-operation on biodiversity, climate change and desertification

International recognition of the challenges is growing, hand-in-hand with public concern. The Rio Conventions of 1992 were a major achievement for environmental protection, setting a clear framework for international action on Biodiversity, Climate...

Adaptation to Climate Change: International Policy Options

This report examines options for future international efforts to help vulnerable countries adapt to the impacts of climate change both within and outside the climate framework. Options outlined in the report include stronger funding and action under...

Adelphi Research

Adelphi was founded in 2001 as a non-profit research organization on sustainability science and public policy consulting. Its multi-disciplinary team of currently 72 political scientists, lawyers, economists, engineers and environmental planners...

Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment

This Ugandan public policy think tank carries out research and advocacy activities to support national and regional development policies. Among the latest publications are reviews of the Ugandan oil and gas policy and legal framework, the fish...

Afghanistan Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment, January 2003

Afghanistan is at a crucial point in its tumultuous history. Since 1973, Afghanistan has changed regimes frequently, and has been led by eight different leaders. Instability and war has caused widespread devastation, insecurity, displacement,...

Africa Conservation Fund (ACF)

Africa Conservation Fund (ACF) is a UK-registered charity that was created in 2005 to help protect the fauna and flora of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then ACF has worked in close partnership with the Congolese...

African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

The Kenya-based African Centre for Technology Studies is an international intergovernmental policy research and outreach institution. Its main areas of work are research and capacity building in the fields of environmental technologies and...

African Development Bank (AfDB)

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s mission is to help reduce poverty, improve living conditions for Africans and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic and social development....