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Impact investing and beyond: support for social enterprises in emerging markets

Event - Public event - 9 May 2013

Workshop with representatives from the investment sector to discuss findings of the research exploring impact investing.

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Flooding Sindh province, Pakistan: people returning home as soon as the water recedes

International climate finance: opportunities for continued UK leadership

Event - Public event - 9 May 2013

This meeting convened by ODI, E3G and the Grantham Institute brought together experts, civil society, private sector, and UK government representatives to reflect on the experience to date with international climate finance in the context of global efforts to respond to climate change.

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Drivers and challenges for climate compatible development

Event - Public event - 8 May 2013 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

What puts climate change on the agenda in developing countries? You are warmly invited to attend a public event by Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to explore the drivers and challenges for climate compatible development. Speakers present and respond to CDKN and ODI’s programme experience, drawing on research in Kenya, Ghana, Vietnam and Colombia.

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Green growth: time to stop ducking the trade-offs and difficult decisions

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 May 2013

Two contrasting media articles published over the last few weeks illustrate the on-going confusion about what we should want from international development and the supposed silver bullet ‘Green Growth’ (usually defined as patterns of growth which are both environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive). The first, published in the New York Times, talks about how growth has failed in Paraguay because many people still make a living from picking through waste dum

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Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators

Publication - Research reports and studies - 19 April 2013

Tom Mitchell, Lindsey Jones, Emma Lovell and Eva Comba

This report examines options for including disaster risk management in the post-2015 development framework.

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At cross-purposes: subsidies and climate compatible investment

Publication - Research reports and studies - 12 April 2013

Shelagh Whitley

The fifth paper in ODI's series on defining and developing understanding of climate finance in the national or domestic context. This paper has a focus on private climate finance and in particular fossil fuel subsidies.

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Mary Muntari collects water from a stream in Kachia, in Kaduna State Nigeria

Adaptation to climate change in water, sanitation and hygiene

Projects - April 2013 to August 2013

This project will analyse the risks to delivery of DFID Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) results posed by climate change and provide an economic analysis setting out the costs and benefits of adaptation options.

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European and international financial institutions: climate related standards and measures for assessing investments in infrastructure projects

Publication - Research reports and studies - 4 April 2013

Issue Number 1

Adarsh Varma, Shelagh Whitley, Sonja Schmid, Emily Le-Cornu, Chris Dodwell, Emelia Holdaway, Rainer Agster, Dave Steinbach, and Alice Caravani

A review of how public financial institutions are including climate change considerations in their investment portfolios. A key part of the study was to review whether climate change is mainstreamed in their sectoral strategies, such as clean energy and transport.

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