climate change
<p>Impacts of climate change will have a disproportional negative impact on developing countries (Stern 2007, IPCC 2007). Climate change will exacerbate problems related rapid population growth, existing poverty and a heavy reliance on agriculture and the environment. Developing countries have a much more limited capacity to cope with the problems caused by climate change. This...
In many countries, governments are seeking advice from a wide range of disciplines on the potential impacts of climate change on the environment and their society and economy. This handbook is designed to help those conducting research supporting such advice. Underlying the research are two fundamental questions: “What does climate change mean to us?” and “What might be...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a “white spot,” a region about which scientific information on climate change is limited or lacking altogether. Given that the rise of this mountain range, the world’s highest, has had a considerable influence on global wind circulation and climate dynamics, this...
This report is the product of a regional consultation project initiated by IDRC and DFID, and carried out by the Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano, a non-profit organisation based in Quito, Ecuador. The objective of this project is to identify the information gaps, knowledge requirements of relevant stakeholders, and the state of existing capacity and needs of the most vulnerable...
This report aims to provide an overview of the state of the debate on poverty reduction in the face of climate change. The authors have investigated the links between poverty and climate change in practice and examined the issues in the light of a case study in Indonesia. They have...
Read about CARE International's strategic response to climate change, including their focus on: global policy engagement, adaptation, making carbon finance work for poor and marginalised people, and organisational change. They emphasise social justice, gender equality and empowerment in everything they do.
Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some have greater capacity than...
It is critical to integrate, or “mainstream” thinking about climate change into development strategies, plans and programmes. This is especially true when pursuing goals that are most likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change, such as greater access to safe drinking water, healthy ecosystems or food
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This Toolkit offers practical, “...
<p>We must mitigate and adapt to climate change. On this, the international community is agreed. But exactly how to do that is still up for debate. There were high hopes that last year’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen would deliver a legally binding agreement for action on climate change. But the outcome — the Copenhagen Accord — was instead a political...
Protected areas play a major role in reducing climate changing carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. Fifteen percent of the world’s terrestrial carbon stock - 312 gigatonnes - are stored in protected areas around the world. Protected areas also serve as natural buffers against climate impacts and other disasters, providing space for floodwaters to disperse, stabilizing soil...
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