Biodiversity
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- The Amazon forest and climate change: are we reaching an ecological tipping point?
- ( WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2007)
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The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the c...
- How will climate change affect forests in Europe?
- ( J. Koskela;A. Buck;E. Teissier du Cros / Bioversity International , 2007)
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Climate change is increasingly recognised as one of the most important challenges faced globally by ecosystems and societies alike. Climate change will alter the environmental conditions to which f...
- Patents could protect environment from bio-fuel investments
- ( S. Suppan / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP , 2007)
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Understanding patent policy is crucial for predicting how the biofuels technologies can aid or hinder sustainable development. This article examines the influence that patents will have on the biof...
- Coping with climate variability and change
- ( R. Vernooy / International Development Research Centre , 2007)
- Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can su...
- Impacts of climate change in East Africa
- ( M. Case / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2006)
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This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change i...
- How can climate change adaptation strategies be integrated with concerns over biological diversity?
- ( Convention on Biological Diversity , 2006)
- This report highlights the major biological factors that contribute to ecosystem resilience under the projected impacts of global climate change. It assesses the potential consequences for biodiversit...
- Securing the South Pacific's mangroves against climate change
- ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2006)
- Mangrove ecosystems provide important and valuable services and products to Pacific Island communities, but are under threat from changing environmental conditions. This publication highlights results...
- Ecosystem approaches and community-level management are key to reducing climate vulnerabilities
- ( H. Reid / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2004)
- This publication considers the linkages between climate change (mitigation and adaptation) and biodiversity, and then relates these linkages to livelihoods, poverty and achieving the Millennium Develo...
- Integrated environmental governance key to managing climate change and biodiversity
- ( H. Reid; B. Pisupati ; H. Baulch / SciDev.Net , 2004)
- This policy brief examines the biodiversity/climate change interface from both sides. The authors firstly explore the impacts of global warming on biodiversity, and then look at how biodiversity affec...
- Ecosystem changes continues to worsen putting MDGs at risk
- ( Millennium Ecosystem Assessment , 2005)
- This report, synthesises the findings of large multi-agency attempt to comprehensively evaluate all of the world’s major ecosystems. It finds that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services t...
