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Africa Up in Smoke? 2: An update report on Africa and global warming from the working group on climate change and development

30/10/2006

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Too much or too little rain can be a matter of life or death in Africa. At different times and in different places across the continent, climate change threatens both. This briefing brings up to date the original report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Africa – Up in smoke?, released in […]

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Up In Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean: The threat from climate change to the environment and human development

29/08/2006

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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The report confirms that largely regular and predictable temperature and rainfall patterns, are changing, becoming less predictable and often more extreme. It catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation ranging from drought in the Amazon to floods in Haiti and elsewhere; vanishing glaciers in Colombia to extreme cold in the Andes; and hurricanes, […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of DEC Disaster Response Programme in Niger, Mali and Mauritania

01/06/2006

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Emergency Response to the Food Crisis in West Africa had two phases. The first phase was designed to save lives, delivering emergency food aid as fast as possible. The second phase began the process of restoring people’s livelihood assets (animal restocking), drought mitigation (water management) and contingency planning for the next lean period through […]

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Africa Up in Smoke?: The second report from the working group on climate change and development

01/06/2005

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Following on from the Up in Smoke? report, this booklet uses pictures, graphics, and case studies to detail the impact that climate change is already having on Africa and the threat this poses to human development. This Report finds that concerns about the effects of climate change on rural African societies are more than justified. […]

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Research report

Climate Change Impacts on Development: A note of Oxfam’s experiences for the Stern Review

01/01/2005

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate change adaptation

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Climate change – in the sense of rapid, large-scale and noticeable climate change, unusual in people’s experience – is happening already. This is having important economic and social effects. It is making life more precarious for many people, particularly those who are already the poorest. Yet people are not passive, but are changing their lives […]

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Up in Smoke? Threats from and responses to the impact of global warming on human development

01/09/2004

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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Informative and readable, this compelling report from some of the world’s leading environmental and development organisations expresses concerns about how global warming affects people’s lives, particularly those living in developing countries, and how it could threaten attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. It features case studies with photos from communities around the world, and details […]

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Journal article

Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building

01/07/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building

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The issue of sustainable energy development is a key consideration for climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives, and is an integral component of Africa’s ability to achieve the inter-related economic, social, and environmental aims of sustainable development. Nearly one-third of the global population lacks access to energy-efficient services that do not degrade the ecosystem or […]

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Journal article

Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

01/07/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

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Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, […]

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Gender, Development, and Climate Change

01/01/2002

1 documents

115 pages long

Languages: English

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In the face of extreme weather events, desertification, and a rise in sea levels, governments and communities around the world increasingly recognise that the need to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change is urgent. The global agenda and negotiations focus on what governments, corporations, and institutions can do in the search for […]

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Research report

Climate Change: The implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy

01/10/2000

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Report on the impacts of climate change and the implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy.

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