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    Framework document on water and climate change adaptation: for leaders and policy-makers in the Asia-Pacific region

    Asia-Pacific Water Forum, 2012
    Water security, especially in the context of climatic change, is recognised as a global security challenge. This framework aims to provide information and advice on climate change adaptation and water resources management for policymakers and decision-makers in the Asia-Pacific region.
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    Mainstreaming climate resilience into government: the Philippines' Climate Change Act

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    The Philippines is at high risk from rising sea levels and a projected increase in severe tropical storms due to its geography and location. The vulnerability of its population to climate change is made worse by high poverty levels, and the negative environmental and social impacts of the country’s large natural resource extraction industries such as mining and logging.
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    Climate and development research review: synthesis report

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This report by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) highlights key trends in a growing body of research on the links between climate change and development. The purpose of the review is to pull out the main findings from this body of research to inform policymakers and practitioners who are working towards climate compatible development.
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    Direct access to the Adaptation Fund: lessons from accrediting NIEs in Jamaica and Senegal

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    Developing countries can access climate finance directly from the international Adaptation Fund (AF), if their National Implementing Entities (NIEs) meet the high accreditation standards required. This Climate and Development Knowledge Network’s ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ assesses Jamaica’s and Senegal’s experiences in accessing these funds.
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    The politics of climate change in India: narratives of equity and co-benefits

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2012
    According to this paper, India occupies a dual position in global climate politics: as a developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions; and as a rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics have been mainly shaped around the first perspective, but it is increasingly being forced to tackle with the second.
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    Negotiating climate change

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2012
    Because the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009, failed to reach an agreement on emissions commitments beyond 2012, studying negotiation strategies of country delegations remains relevant.
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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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    Connect the dots: managing the fragmentation of global climate governance

    The Earth System Governance Project, 2012
    The debate about post-2012 global climate governance has been framed largely by proponents and opponents of the policymaking process established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Debate has focused on whether a centralised or a polycentric climate governance architecture will be more effective, efficient, equitable or viable.
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    The evolution and governance architecture of the climate change regime

    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Although the general theory of global warming has been a part of scientific research and debate since the end of the nineteenth century, an international legal regime to address the problem of climate change began to develop only in the late 1980s.
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    Grow in concert with nature: green water defense for flood risk management in East Asia

    World Bank, 2012
    This report takes stock of advances in management practices, and institutional and technological innovations for managing water resources under a changing climate. The focus is on green water defense (GWD) for flood risk management in deltas and other areas vulnerable to flooding in East Asia.

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