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Press release / An article in the Conversation presents findings from the PRINDCISSA project on the role of businesses in climate change adaption in African agriculture

Past event / The new Centre of Excellence on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk is set to launch by co-hosting a Forum and Academy in Bangkok.

Other publication / This paper presents a stylized model to explore the interaction between household debt, the functional income distribution, and technological change.

Journal article / This article presents a new method for accurately calculating GHG emissions from marine cargo shipping, and attributing them to countries, vessels and products.

Journal article / Farm-level data from the eastern Brazilian Amazon shows that market proximity had a significant positive correlation with fertilizer adoption.

Project / This project examined the potential of a dual-pronged approach to developing technical and social alternatives to charcoal in Zambia.

Perspective / Neal Haddaway explains how frustrations with evidence synthesis led to new work combining indigenous and scientific knowledge.

Other publication / Chapter in Quantifying Co-Benefits in Asia: Methods and Applications’, Asian Co-benefits Partnership White Paper 2018

Other publication / Chapter in the The Emissions Gap Report 2017

Journal article / This paper explores whether the variation in ozone sensitivity among woody species can be linked to interspecific variation in leaf morphology.

Journal article / This study quantifies the contribution of hourly nitrogen dioxide (NO2) variation to annual NO2 concentrations at > 2500 sites across Europe.

Journal article / A theory of biased technological change in which firms pursue a random, local search for productivity-enhancing innovations

Other publication / The authors advocate for the creation of a climate change "translator" to help climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities communicate better.

Journal article / Secondary forests can be vital to conserve biodiversity and trap carbon, but are still no substitute for undisturbed primary forest.

Press release / A new study reveals that untouched, primary forests are the ecological gold standard, but regrowing tropical forests are key to biodiversity and carbon storage.

Feature / Secondary forest can never substitute undisturbed primary forest, but it can still be effective in protecting biodiversity and sequestering carbon.

Perspective / In Mukuru, Kenya, people and policy-makers came together on stage to build understanding and generate solutions to air pollution in their local area.

Journal article / This study considers how agrarian movements develop and apply their own rights discourses to further demands for social justice.

Media coverage / Peter du Pont told Eco-Business why there is no place for coal subsidies in today's energy markets of Southeast Asia.

SEI brief / This brief from SEI, IDDRI and ODI finds that a transboundary view of climate risk creates opportunities for international cooperation on adaptation.