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Time to beat the impasse on climate talks 28/05/2009 3 documents 17 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Climate finance Overview The world, and most of all, its poor people, desperately needs a fair and safe climate deal to be agreed in Copenhagen in December. But currently, negotiations are proceeding at a snail’s pace, hamstrung by a yawning deficit of trust between developing and industrialized countries, and crucially lacking a global leader – one that can […] View resource Briefing note Sectoral Solutions or Carbon Cartels: Will global industry proposals result in a fair and safe climate deal? 21/05/2009 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Conflict Disasters Overview Climate change is already affecting the lives of people in the developing world. Increased floods and droughts, rising sea levels, changing patterns of rainfall and falling crop yields are making it harder and harder for poor people to escape poverty. Oxfam is projecting that, on current trends, the average number of people affected by climate-related […] View resource Journal article Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation 01/03/2009 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview This article focuses on the sustainability of gendered agricultural income-generating activities in Sonora, near the Mexico-USA border, in the context of climate change. Farming, and fruit and vegetable home-processing enterprises, still predominate in the area. However, several types of fruits can no longer be produced in this area due to warmer temperatures. Climate change has […] View resource Journal article Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions 01/03/2009 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender mainstreaming Overview Rapid changes to the climate are predicted over the next few years, and these present challenges for women’s empowerment and gender equality on a completely new scale. There is little evidence or research to provide a reliable basis for gender-sensitive approaches to agricultural adaptation to climate change. This article explores the gender dimensions of climate […] View resource Briefing paper Turning Carbon into Gold: How the international community can finance climate change adaptation without breaking the bank 02/12/2008 3 documents 38 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Climate finance Overview Recognizing that poor communities in developing countries are the least responsible for climate change but most vulnerable to its impacts, the Bali Action Plan calls for ‘new and additional resources’ and ‘innovative finance mechanisms’ to address urgent climate adaptation needs. Oxfam suggests that new financing mechanisms linked to emissions reduction regimes could be the way […] View resource Briefing paper Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa 18/08/2008 3 documents 47 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Overview Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the […] View resource Case study Climate Change and Human Development in Viet Nam: A case study for how change happens 01/01/2008 1 documents 18 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Overview The case study presents Viet Nam’s institutional arrangements and policies in disaster management, practical examples of climate change adaptation and provides conclusions on reducing climate change vulnerabilities. View resource Briefing note Financing Adaptation: Why the UN’s Bali climate conference must mandate the search for new funds 04/12/2007 4 documents 12 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Climate finance Overview Oxfam estimates that adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to cost at least $50bn each year, and far more if global greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut fast enough. Yet international funding efforts to date have been woeful. In the year that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its direst warnings […] View resource Briefing paper Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites 25/11/2007 2 documents 28 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Climate finance Conflict Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR Overview Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. A rise in small- and medium-scale disasters is a particularly worrying trend. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. Though more emergency aid is needed, humanitarian response must do more than save lives: it has […] View resource Book Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific: The threat from climate change to human development and the environment 19/11/2007 1 documents 96 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Climate finance Livelihoods Overview The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world’s population, around four billion people, live. The latest global scientific consensus from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that all of Asia is very likely to warm during this century. Warming will […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know