Bangkok assessment report on climate change 2009

This report attempts to explain why and how climate change is affecting Bangkok, while giving some idea of the likely trends that may be expected and what action will have to be taken in order to make the predicted outcomes less severe. The fourth chapter specifically addresses the vulnerability and impacts of climate change on the city and the local adaptation practices undertaken, whereas the chapter 6 raises the general theme of adaptation actions and selects appropriate adaptation responses measures.

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Climate change and social justice

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This book demonstrates that the problem of how to distribute the cost of climate change in the rush to avoid, or reduce its repercussions, is fundamentally a problem of justice. It warns against passing the additional burden of climate change on the poor and vulnerable. The issue of justice in adaptation concerns the seventh chapter. It has two parts: an overview of the justice dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and then an example of the potential injustices that may arise as a result of efforts to promote adaptation in the small island state of Niue.

Climate change and agricultur.

an economic analysis of global impacts, adaptation and distributional effects

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This book uses the Ricardian method to examine the impact of climate change on agriculture. The book also quantifies how farmers adapt to climate. The findings suggest that agriculture in developing countries is more sensitive to climate than agriculture in developed countries. the book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides both a good analytical basis for additional work and solid results for policy debate concerning income distributional effects such as abatement, adaptation, and equity.

CEDRA Climate change and Environmental Degradation Risk and Adaptation assessment

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CEDRA is a tool that helps agencies working in developing countries to access and understand the science of climate change and environmental degradation and to compare this with local community experience of environmental change. Using CEDRA, agencies can prioritize which environmental hazards may pose a risk to their existing projects and project locations, enabling them to make decisions to adapt some projects, stop doing others or start new ones.

2009 California climate adaptation strategy

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This report is a multi-sector strategy to help guide California's efforts in adapting to climate change impacts. In cooperation and partnership with multiple state agencies, the 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy summarizes the best known science on climate change impacts in seven specific sectors and provides recommendations on how to manage against those threats.
This is the first iteration of this strategy, following from a 45-day public comment period. Led by the California Natural Resources Agency, numerous other state agencies were involved in the creation of the strategy including Environmental Protection; Business, Transportation and Housing; Health and Human Services; and the Department of Agriculture.

State of world population 2009: facing a changing world: women, population and climate

Pubblicato un testo a cura di United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

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This report explores the critical connections among population dynamics, reproductive health, women’s lives and climate change as they relate to greenhouse-gas emissions and societies’ resilience against the impacts of climate change. The report describes what can be done to slow down—and possibly roll back—climate change and what must be done to help the poor adapt to the climate change that is already under way.

Climate change and migration in Asia and the Pacific

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This draft study discusses how climate change is likely to influence population displacement, migration and settlement patterns and examines how this will impact development in five sub-regions of Asia and the Pacific. It argues that if migration due to climate change is managed effectively, humanitarian crises will be minimized, conflicts avoided, and countries can benefit. In addition to assessing the impacts of climate change on migration across the entire region, a number of case studies are carried out in particular hot spots, such as Bangladesh–India, the PRC, and the Pacific. Smaller case studies use secondary data in Central Asia, Indonesia, the Mekong, Nepal, and Thailand.

Building climate resilience in the agriculture sector of Asia and the Pacific

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This study recommends cost-effective adaptation responses that could build greater climate resilience into the agriculture sector in Asia and the Pacific. It uses predictions of global climate models to develop scenarios to 2050 for Asia and to derive implications for food security.
This study is one of the three studies organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the regional technical assistance (TA) project Addressing Climate Change in the Asia and Pacific Region.

Climate change and India: towards preparation of a comprehensive climate change assessment

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This report seeks to (i) generate a comprehensive knowledge base on scientific issues related to climate change for informed decision making, (ii) Enable integration of climate change concerns towards the preparation of Action Plan on Climate Change and the related initiatives, (iii) Provide scientific for negotiations and (iv) build capacity of institutions by training new researchers in various aspects of climate change in the projects awarded to different institutions.

Solving the climate dilemma: the budget approach

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This special report describes institutional requirements to give rise to various ways of financing mitigation and adaptation measures and promoting the transfer of technology between the industrialised and the developing countries, and outlines framework conditions for a climate-friendly world economy of the future. This proposed budget approach can also provide new impetus and orientation for negotiations at the climate change summit in Copenhagen.