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Briefing paper

Suffering the Science: Climate change, people, and poverty

06/07/2009

8 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

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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Book

Climate Change: Stories of Witnesses

30/06/2009

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: Russian

Keywords

Overview

This is the Russian part of an Oxfam International project called the Human Cost of Climate Change which consisted of a global report, case studies and a range of other tools to be used to build national campaigning capacity in different countries. The overall piece of work highlighted why Oxfam is working on climate change. […]

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Research report

Climate Change, Development and Energy Problems in South Africa: Another world is possible

26/06/2009

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Much of South Africa is already arid or semi-arid and climate change is expected to increase temperatures and droughts and add to pressure on limited water supplies. Poor people will be hardest hit. The South African government has been commendably vocal in calling for rich countries to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet South Africa […]

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Briefing paper

Hang Together or Separately? How global cooperation is key to a fair and adequate climate deal at Copenhagen

11/06/2009

6 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Climate finance

Overview

A fair and adequate global climate regime requires a massive effort across the board to reduce the risks to lives and livelihoods that poor people face first and most. Rich countries must reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions first and fastest, with ambitious targets at home. High levels of rich-country pollution over the last century mean […]

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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

Keywords

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 […]

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Briefing paper

Close to Home : UK poverty and the economic downturn

08/04/2009

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The UK is in recession, and things stand to get much worse for the fifth of the population already living in poverty, and for the millions more whose livelihoods will become more vulnerable as a result. The UK government has recognised its responsibility to help people through the recession, but needs to do more to […]

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Briefing paper

4-a-week: Changing food consumption in the UK to benefit people and planet

06/03/2009

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Food security

Overview

The food we buy every week can have huge impacts on people and environments seemingly worlds away from our regular dash round the shops. The futures of some of the world’s poorest people and of the global environment are intimately linked to the contents of our shopping baskets. How we shop, what we eat, and […]

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Journal article

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

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Overview

This article examines the role of sustainable technology in tackling climate change in developing countries. Drawing on solar home systems in Bangladesh as an example, it argues that increasing women’s visibility in technology committees is not necessarily effective in challenging gender stereotypes. Crafting new rules may fail to confront power inequalities. Sustainable technology can exert […]

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Journal article

Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific

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Overview

This article reflects upon how gendered approaches to climate-change adaptation can be strengthened in the Pacific region. The article looks at what has been learnt in the region, surveys some examples of best practice in gender-responsive programming, identifies the challenges we face on our journey, and suggests future directions. It is a collaborative effort, comprising […]

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Journal article

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

01/03/2009

17 pages long

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Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

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Overview

Most policy makers and practitioners have now started to recognise the different ways in which climate change impacts on poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded women and men. However, making adaptation policies and programmes sensitive to gender issues does not simply mean ‘adding on’ a concern for women. It also requires a nuanced understanding of gendered […]

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