Climate change is projected to have large and mainly negative impacts that will disproportionately affect the poor. ‘Adaptation’ has now become a major theme in the international debate. Our interest in adaptation relates to three main areas. Firstly in understanding more about the physical impacts and how they relate to vulnerability, chronic poverty and to policy processes, especially in the areas of agriculture and natural resources. Secondly, in how climate change can be factored into aid portfolios and international financing mechanisms, and the potential implications of these financial flows. And thirdly we are interested in the linkages between mitigation policies and adaptation, for example how policies such as biofuels or avoided deforestation may increase the vulnerability of the poor to climate change shocks and stresses.

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Design of a Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP) for India
		In response to the growing importance of climate change in DFID’s strategic priorities, DFID India plans to create a Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP). The goal of CCIP is to strengthen the resilience of India’s poor to climate change. The purpose is approaches tested to help the poor adapt to climate change and to access opportunities in the carbon market.
		Leo Peskett and Priya Deshingkar	December 2008 - present
Innovative Finance to Climate Adaptation
		This policy brief, commissioned by the OECD, intends to be a short synthesis of the different existing proposals on climate change adaptation finance schemes. The paper takes the 2008 Müller report as its starting point, aiming to add, synthesise and update the material covered in the report using supplementary primary documentation.
		Jessica Brown and Marcella Vigneri	November 2008
Development co-operation and climate change adaptation
		Guidelines on how to incorporate climate change adaptation into development co-operation are currently being prepared and will provide guidance to both development partners and national governments in developing countries on how to incorporate climate change adaptation concerns into policy and development operations.
		Neil Bird and Lidia Cabral	February - May 2008
New Global Environmental Funds
		The purpose of this study is to obtain all pertinent information and to present an analysis of recent developments and trends in global environmental finance.
		Neil Bird and Leo Peskett	February - June 2008
Public environmental expenditure within multi-year budgetary frameworks
		This study, undertaken with the OECD Environment Directorate, examines how multi-year budgetary processes work in practice in both high income OECD countries ( Australia and the Netherlands) and in aid-receiving countries (Armenia, South Africa and Uganda). A main objective of the study is to identify the opportunities for, and limits to, financing environmental management through general budget support.
		Neil Bird, Geoff Handley and Edward Hedger	November 2007 – March 2008
Budget Support, Aid Instruments and the Environment - The country context
		Neil Bird and Cecilia Luttrell, together with ODI researchers Lidia Cabral and Andrew Lawson, will examine country experience of public expenditure on the environment and how this is influenced by development partners. Four country case studies, in Ghana, Mali, Mozambique and Tanzania, will be undertaken and a synthesis report prepared.
		Neil Bird, Cecilia Luttrell, Lidia Cabral and Andrew Lawson	July 2007 -February 2008