The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN Member States, have been specifically proposed to address some of the main socio-environmental and economic problems affecting developed and developing countries. Based on and expanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which...

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 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...