Developing nations fear the effects of climate change as much as any of us - but ensure economic development does not aggravate the problem is a major hurdle for them to overcome.
Policies to increase food security in the global South focus too much on rural food production and not enough on ensuring poor people can access and afford food, especially in urban areas, says a report published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development.
New climate change adaptation system. Developing countries - Africa and South Asia - especially will benefit from the new systems that track the social impacts of efforts to adapt to climate change.
Despite lavish promises in 2009, with over US$30 billion pledged to help mitigate climate change in developing countries, a shameful 20 percent of that amount is all that has been turned into action on the ground. Report by IIED.
