El nexo entre cambio climático y energía

La energía juega un papel indispensable en la configuración del desarrollo económico de un país y como garantía de la calidadde vida de sus ciudadanos. Sin embargo, la producción y el consumo de energía siguen ejerciendo una presión considerable sobre el medio ambiente, contribuyendo con cerca de dos terceras partes a las emisiones globales de gases de efecto invernadero, especialmente del dióxido de carbono (CO2) que resulta de la quema de combustibles fósiles1. El cuarto Informe de Evaluación del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC) concluyó en 2007 que “la mayor partedel incremento observado en la temperatura media global desde mediados del siglo XX se debe muy probablemente al incrementoobservado en la concentración de gases de efecto invernadero antropogénicos”2. El hecho es que, debido al predominio de los recursos energéticos no sostenibles, el clima está cambiando rápidamente, lo que representa una amenaza importante parala economía y el medio ambiente, al tiempo que inflige daños severos a la vida y a los medios de subsistencia de las personas

Climate change: Pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies

Poverty reduction, Hunger, Climate change, Pro-poor strategies, Development planning, Adaptation measures, Policies, Land use and agriculture, Risk management,

What should be the future of UK-Bangladesh relations after aid? Exit DFID, enter the universities

Guest bloggers Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, and David Lewis, Department of Social Policy at the LSE, suggest a new future for UK-Bangladesh relations once Bangladesh graduates from a Least Developed Country to a Middle Income Country in 2021

What should be the future of UK-Bangladesh relations after aid? Exit DFID, enter the universities

Guest bloggers Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, and David Lewis, Department of Social Policy at the LSE, suggest a new future for UK-Bangladesh relations once Bangladesh graduates from a Least Developed Country to a Middle Income Country in 2021

Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

The scientific literature, media, international summits, and policy forums highlighted enough the people who either move or are willing to move because of environmental reasons. Still, the voluntary environmental non-migrants (ENM), who are assumed to have strong resilience and coping capacity, are inordinately overlooked. The importance of addressing these ENMs has increasingly been emphasised. First, the paper explains the characteristics of ENM, outlining the key distinction between voluntary and forced non-migrants. Second, it emphasises the need to protect populations affected by environmental change and disaster, specifically highlighting oft-neglected ENM policy gaps. Thus, it examines to what extent ENM is addressed in existing global legal and policy responses. Having identified the gaps, it further considers the importance of adaptation strategies and well-planned relocation policies to support non-migration. Finally, it summarises the existing ENM policies’ scope and reflects on the key policy gaps identified to suggest the way forward. This paper urges for a pragmatic and strategic policy approach that ensures bottom-up community-oriented approaches for supporting ENM by: (i) coordinating adaptation activities, (ii) ensuring planned relocation and migration with dignity, (iii) enabling informed decision-making, (iv) mobilising national and international support, and (v) developing appropriate institutional structures for adaptation

Climate Change and Asian Agriculture

Asian and global agriculture will be under significant pressure to meet the demands of rising populations, using finite and often degraded soil and water resources that are predicted to be further stressed by the impacts of climate change. In addition, agriculture and land use change are prominent sources of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Fertilizer application, livestock rearing, and land management affect levels of GHG in the atmosphere and the amount of carbon storage and sequestration potential. Therefore, while some impending climatic changes will have negative effects on agricultural production in parts of Asia, and especially on resource-poor farmers, the sector also presents opportunities for emission reductions. Warming across the Asian continent will be unevenly distributed, but will certainly lead to crop yield losses in much of the region and subsequent impacts on prices, trade, and food security—disproportionately affecting poor people. Most projections indicate that agriculture in South, Central, and West Asia will be hardest hit.