This report takes the stance that implementing low carbon development is compatible with and a condition for eliminating poverty. The authors argues that the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is achievable by integrating approaches to sustained growth and inequality reduction.

This edited volume, entitled Conflict-sensitive climate change adaptation in Africa, focuses on conflict-sensitivity in climate change adaptation strategies and practices in Africa and brings together the voices of academics, practitioners and policymakers from across the globe and Africa. Key questions that frame the contributions are: how do climate change and/or climate adaptation projects cause or contribute to conflicts, and how can adaptation measures be conflict-sensitive?

This article discusses the role of climate clubs, that is, countries which come together in “coalitions of the willing” in shaping a future climate change regime for 2020 and beyond at the COP21 in Paris in late 2015. The article considers the opportunities for more flexible and effective climate governance through such clubs, as well as limits and challenges such as potential conflict with the international trade regime.

This report by the UK-US Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience highlights an increasing risk to global food production represented by extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts and floods.