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  Climate change adaptation for coral triangle communities: a guide for vulnerability assessment and local early action planning (LEAP guide)

  2013

  This comprehensive set of scientific and social instruments helps local governments and communities to assess their vulnerability to climate change and form their own climate change adaptation plans to address local conditions.
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  Guidance manual for TEEB country studies

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013

  The Guidance Manual for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Country Studies was developed following requests from countries interested in undertaking a TEEB country study, with the aim of achieving their development goals while at the same time sustainably managing their natural resources.
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  Training guide: gender and climate change research in agriculture and food security for development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural development in an effective way.
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  An operational framework for Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD)

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  This working paper seeks to offer practical guidance on how to put into operation the concepts outlined in the International Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) Climate Change Working Paper No. 1.
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  Handbook on capitalisation of experiences 2012

  2012

  This handbook by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) focuses on climate change adaptation experiences and aims to build the capacity of adaptation programmes and project teams. It argues that good communication strategies and knowledge management are critical to achieving high impacts from capitalisation initiatives.
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  A guide on adaptation options for local decision-makers: guidance for decision making to cope with costal changes in west Africa

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2012

  This guide on adaptation options is aimed at local decision-makers on the coastal regions of west Africa and takes the form of a series of fact sheets, each including methods of implementation, positive and negative case studies and estimated costs.
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  A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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  Low carbon growth plans: advancing good practice

  2009

  This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement. It seeks to show how to spread best practice around the world effectively by learning from and building upon the experiences of first-generation low carbon growth plans (LCGPs).
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  Guide to the integration of climate change adaptation into the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process

  2004

  As the impacts of climate change begin to manifest globally environmental impact assessments (EIAs) will be crucial in tallying the exact environmental and financial costs of these impacts. Coupled with this will be the need to incorporate EIAs into national adaptation strategies so as to guide policy makers as to scale and scope of the measures that must be implemented.
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  Gender and climate adaptation: tools for community-level action in Nigeria

  Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team, 2011

  In Africa, as in many parts of the world, the impact of climate change is visible and widespread...Such impacts combined with high dependence on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture mean that many African countries, including Nigeria, face high vulnerability in the coming decades.

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