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G20 providing $452bn a year on fossil fuel production subsidies – despite pledge to remove them and take action to limit climate change
News | 12 November 2015
G20 governments are handing out approximately $452 billion a year to prop up the production of fossil fuels – despite pledges to phase out subsidies
Building paths for youth entrepreneurship
Research reports and studies | November 2015 | Claudia Pompa; Tiina Pasanen
This paper presents findings from a review of Raleigh International’s youth entrepreneurship pilot projects in Nicaragua and Tanzania.
Empty promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production
Research reports and studies | November 2015 | Elizabeth Bast, Alex Doukas, Sam Pickard, Laurie Van Der Burg and Shelagh Whitley
This study compiles publicly available information on fossil fuel production subsidies in the G20 in 2013 and 2014.
Scaling up international support for adaptation: productive safety nets and reimbursable debt service
Working and discussion papers | November 2015 | Neil Bird, Marcus Manuel and Smita Nakhooda
This report explores the potential of productive safety nets and reimbursable debt service to speed up international climate finance spending in vulnerable countries.
Markets in crises: the 2010 floods in Sindh, Pakistan
Working and discussion papers | November 2015 | Steven A. Zyck, Irina Mosel, Huma Dad Khan and Saad Shabbir
This paper looks at how the emergency and subsequent humanitarian response impacted markets in flood-affected areas of Sindh province.
Three lessons from Mongolia’s ‘wolf economy’
Articles and blogs | November 2015 | Phyllis Padadavid and Mark Miller
Resource-rich Mongolia needs more than money to build its ‘wolf economy ‘ to sustainably promote equitable growth.