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Key Documents archive results 1-15 of 15 in Climate Change & Energy and Adaptation
Climate change: A call to action for African leaders
This policy brief, prepared by the Africa Progress Panel, African Development Bank and UN, outlines the implications of climate change for Africa, emphasising the need for a strong and cohesive negotiating position at the December 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen. The authors argue that African...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Managing the health effects of climate change
This report provides a policy framework for assessing the impacts of climate change on health, including vector-borne disease, by considering five challenges: informational, poverty and equity-related, technological, sociopolitical and institutional. It begins with a detailed outline of climate...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2009 | EN
The road to REDD
This feature article, published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal, uses the Cordillera Azul national park in Peru as an example to introduce mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) that are under global discussion. The author discusses...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2009 | EN
From REDD to PINC
This policy brief, published by the Global Canopy Programme, proposes a system called Proactive Investment in Natural Capital (PINC), to reward countries for conserving large areas of tropical forest that act as 'global utilities' providing ecosystem services essential for preserving global food...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2008 | EN
Little REDD Book
This guide to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), published by the Global Canopy Programme, reviews many of the REDD proposals under discussion in global climate change negotiations. The authors highlight why strategies for REDD are needed, then outline and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2009 | EN
Guide on climate change and indigenous peoples
This guide, published by Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education), outlines the expected impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples around the world, and showcases traditional methods of climate change mitigation and adaption. Following a basic...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2008 | EN
REDD: An options assessment report
This comprehensive report on the options for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) under consideration for an international deal on climate change was prepared by the Meridian Institute for the Government of Norway. The authors focus on four critical areas for...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2009 | EN
Policy and institutional reforms to support climate change adaptation and mitigation in development programs: A practical guide
This 'toolkit', published by the World Bank, provides policy advice on how to integrate climate change adaptation strategies into development programs. It gives an overview of climate change impacts in developing countries and identifies the main channels through which development programs can...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Climate change risk: An adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
This paper, prepared for the Global Urban Summit, proposes a framework for building climate change adaptation and mitigation measures into India's urban renewal programmes. This involves multiple government stakeholders at national, state and city levels. The author begins with a description of...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2007 | EN
ORCHID: Piloting Climate Risk Screening in DFID Bangladesh, Summary Research Report
This report by the Institute for Development Studies details the results of a pilot project in Bangladesh aimed at developing a screening process for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to identify and manage climate change impacts on development investments. The authors...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2007 | EN
Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa: where are the hot spots of climate change and household vulnerability?
This book-length report details a study by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) that aimed to map vulnerability to the impacts of climate change in Africa. Climate change models of four different future scenarios were used and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: August 2006 | EN
Adaptation to climate change: International policy options
International efforts to address climate change tend to focus on mitigation -- the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Another response is adapting to the unavoidable impacts caused by past emissions. Yet adaptation plays a minor role in UN climate negotiations -- this report argues that it must...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2006 | EN
Overcoming the barriers: Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in developing countries
Adapting to climate change is seen as imperative to sustainable development. Yet few poverty alleviation efforts include adaptation strategies. This report examines the progress in mainstreaming adaptation into development planning in countries like Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Sudan,...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2006 | EN
Report of IPCC working group 1: summary for policymakers
The Third Assessment Report of the IPCC's Working Group 1 builds on past assessments and incorporates new results from the past five years of climate change. It descibes the current state of udnerstanding of the cliamte system, and provides estiamtes of its projected future evolution and their...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Climate change in focus: the IPCC Third Assessment Report
The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in 2001, is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on climate change. Its conclusions confirm and strengthen those of the previous reports: human-induced climate change is a reality and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2002 | EN
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Easier REDD than done
Designing a framework for reducing forest emissions that will live up to expectations will be hard
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
