How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate … and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined with climate data for the past three decades. The study finds that … shocks and observed production reactions to climate anomalies can, respectively, provide hints about livelihood vulnerability …

climatically sensitive sectors or regions. This report demonstrates that climate change and its impacts are likely to alter a …. Given that the main effects of climate change are now well established, there is a considerable opportunity, as well as a … responsibility, for these institutions to take a leading role in adaptation to climate change. Institutions managing investments in …

The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and … socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change … pessimistic and labeled "poverty." Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts-in agriculture, health, and natural …

development challenges posed by global climate change. Unabated, climate change threatens to reverse hard-earned development gains …, developed and developing. While climate change is an added cost and risk to development, a well-designed and implemented global … climate policy can also bring new economic opportunities to developing countries. Climate change demands unprecedented global …

and time. Climate is the sum of the prevailing weather conditions of a given place over a period of time, typically summed … over many decades. This paper seeks to provide strategic directions for mainstreaming support for climate change within the … World Bank's broader program of assistance to Vietnam. It does so by reviewing the current understanding of climate change …

This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative … case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development … need for systematic analyses of existing rural adaptation strategies in the face of climate variability. The study shows: 1 …

(especially in the climate economy literature) finds that precipitation has no robust and significant impact on various measures … the dominant pathway. The results have significant consequences for measuring the economic impacts of climate change …