Framing the potential of climate change interventions to support poverty reduction and promote equity whilst reducing climate risk

Sheona Shackleton, Nadine Methner, Darlington Sibanda, Roger Few, Mark Tebboth
TSITICA Project Working Paper no 1, April 2022.
Published by ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate Change and Development & African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research.

The first in a series of working papers, this paper describes the thinking and evidence that frames the Transforming Social Inequalities Through Inclusive Climate Action (TSITICA) Project’s research agenda, focusing on how local level adaptation interventions can contribute to enhancing livelihoods and reducing poverty and inequality, based on an extensive literature review. It discusses key insights from the climate change and development literature; climate change and poverty literature; climate change and inequality literature; and from the climate change, vulnerability, social justice and equity literature. Read more

TSITICA was a collaborative, multi-country interdisciplinary research project. It brought together two ARUA Centres of Excellence with researchers from the universities of Ghana, Nairobi and Cape Town, and from the UK universities of Bristol, East Anglia and Manchester and the London School of Economics. The support of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are gratefully acknowledged. Visit project website.