ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

Climate Change, Environment and Forests

The ODI Climate Change, Environment and Forests programme seeks to inform the processes of policy change in tropical forestry in ways which improve the livelihoods and well-being of the forest-dependent poor, whilst also securing the long-term future of forest resources.

What we work on

Climate change

 

Forests and the environment

Floods cover house in rural Mozambique (Source: TheHumanitarianCoaliton.ca, Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/humanitarian_coalition/2245957219/in/photostream/)

  • ODI’s work on climate change aims to support climate compatible development and poverty reduction through high quality research, analysis and debate.

 

Woman working in the forest, Auroville, India (Source: Eileen Delhi, Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eileendelhi/168820824/)

  • ODI has been tracking the changes in the role of forests in development, from an early focus on rural development forestry through to today's preoccupation with using forests to mitigate global climate change.

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