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    Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)

    The Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD) promotes people-centred sustainable development by innovation, application and advancement of appropriate scientific, technical and local k
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    Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA)

    ECPA was established by the President of the United States of America in 2009; other member countries are Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago.
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    A human crisis: climate change and human rights in Latin America

    Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, 2011
    This report describes how climate change effects will damage human rights in Latin America. It seeks to aid the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in its investigation of the links between human rights and climate change.
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    Safer Communities Through Disaster Risk Reduction (SC-DRR) in Development

    2012
    The issue of climate change is set to increase the frequency of extreme weather events. Countries, therefore, are required to undertake adaptive measures to ameliorate the impact of such events; Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is an important element of such measures.
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    One planet - one future: equity and resilience for sustainable development

    CARE International, 2012
    This report by CARE highlights the need for Rio+20 to deliver on sustainable development solutions with equity and resilience as central pillars.
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    Ready or not: assessing national institutional capacity for climate change adaptation

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
    This report introduces the National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework, a tool to help governments bring institutional capacity development into their adaptation planning processes. The NAC framework enables its users to systematically assess institutional strengths and weaknesses that may help or hinder adaptation.
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    HCVA in Quy Nhon

    Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network: Indore Initiative, 2009
    This report describes the findings of a Hazard, Capacity & Vulnerability Assessment (HCVA) of Quy Nhon, Vietnam. It has been produced by Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCN).
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    Summary: Climate Change Resilience Action Plan for Quy Nhon City

    2010
    This report, published by the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCN), summarizes climate resilience plans for Quy Nhon City, Vietnam. The report is comprised of three parts. The first section examines potential climate change impacts and areas of vulnerability within Quy Nhon.
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    Great expectations: understanding why the UN climate talks seem to fail

    The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    Year after year, the United Nations climate negotiations seem to fail the test of saving the global climate in the public eye. This briefing paper argues that the expectations placed on the UN climate regime are simply too high, which is damaging as they resonate with sceptics of international climate policy and UN multilateralism in general.
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    Analysing REDD+. Challenges and choices

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
    This is the third book in a series of highly recognised REDD+ volumes from CIFOR. It provides an analysis of actual REDD+ design and early implementation, based on a large research project – the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS).

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