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Connecting social protection and climate change adaptation
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider both the short and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change.DocumentClimate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.DocumentAdaptation toolkit. Integrating adaptation to climate change into secure livelihoods
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global and specific national poverty reduction objectives will be severely hampered.DocumentSocial protection and climate change adaption
Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2008Social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches, and they are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider short and long-term shocks andstresses associated with climate change.DocumentClimate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.DocumentChildren on the frontline: children and young people in Disaster Risk Reduction
Plan, 2009Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to disasters - one in every three survivors of the Indian Ocean Tsunami were women or children under the age of 15.Document2009 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: risk and poverty in a changing climate
PreventionWeb, 2009There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period between 2003 and 2008; with the developing world witnessing nine of the ten worst.DocumentMore than rain: identifying sustainable pathways for climate adaptation and poverty reduction
Development Fund, Norway, 2008This report aims to contribute to the increased understanding of how to integrate climate change adaptation in poverty reduction projects and programs in ways that increase the capacity of individuals, households and communities to respond to climate variability and change.DocumentWater Adaptation in NAPAs. Freshwater in climate adaptation planning and climate adaptation in freshwater planning. A UNDP Side publication to WWDR3
United Nations Development Programme, 2009The Report looks at water adaptation aspects in ongoing processes of formulating and implementing National Adaptation Programmes of Action – NAPAs.DocumentLand and water resource management in Asia. Challenges for climate adaptation
Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2009This paper identifies key development issues relating to land and water management in the less developed countries of the Himalayan and South East Asian (SEA) regions, and how these are likely to be affected by long-term climate change. The authors link the issues of poverty reduction, land and water resource management, and climate adaptation in practice.Pages