This report proposes an index to identify those countries most vulnerable to climate change and to rank them according to their eligibility for funding within the context of the EU Global Climate Change Alliance plus Flagship Initiative (GCCA+). The report is organised as follows. Chapter 1...

This report proposes an index to identify those countries most vulnerable to climate change and to rank them according to their eligibility for funding within the context of the EU Global Climate Change Alliance plus Flagship Initiative (GCCA+). The report is organised as follows. Chapter 1...

This report analyses the differential impact of extreme weather events in the presence of social inequalities. It hypothesizes that social inequalities affect vulnerability and resilience through its impact on the capacity to cope and empirically analyses the differential impact of extreme...

This report aims to contribute to the debate on climate change policies and their link to development. A climate resilient perspective is adopted to understand how climate change policy objectives can be reconciled with development goals. The report reviews the main theoretical concepts that...

During the last two decades globalisation has been a key variable driving economic growth and raising the living standards of nearly everyone on the planet, although not without cost. Indeed, the growth in world trade resulting from globalisation is now increasingly seen as an issue in the...