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Suffering the Science: Climate change, people, and poverty

06/07/2009

8 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish

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Climate change adaptation

Overview

Climate change is damaging people’s lives today. Even if world leaders agree the strictest possible curbs on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the prospects are very bleak for hundreds of millions of people, most of them among the world’s poorest. This paper puts the dramatic stories of some of those people alongside the latest science on […]

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Briefing note

A Place to Stay, A Place to Live: Challenges in providing shelter in India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka after the tsunami

14/12/2005

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

On 26 December 2004, an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami that hit the coasts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, the Maldives, Malaysia, Burma, the Seychelles, and Somalia. Within the space of a few hours, the giant waves devastated thousands of kilometres of coastline and the communities that lived there. […]

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Briefing note

A Mountain to Climb: What needs to be done to prevent further deaths following the Pakistan earthquake and to enable survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihoods

19/11/2005

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

‘I sat and spoke to a group of women in one of Muzaffarabad’s main parks – once a beautiful green space full of flowers, now a home for people with nowhere left to go. One woman told me how she had lost her two children when her house came down over her head. She had […]

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