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    Industry, settlement and society

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
    Climate change and sustainable development are linked through their interactions in industries, human settlements and society. This chapter emphasises that climate-change impacts, adaptation potentials and vulnerabilities are context-specific, related to the characteristics and development pathways of the location or sector involved.
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    Climate change and coastal cities: the case of Mombasa, Kenya

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This paper discusses the risks that the city of Mombasa faces from the direct and indirect impacts of climate change. The city has a history of disasters related to climate extremes including floods, which cause serious damage nearly every year and, often, loss of life.
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    Adapting to climate change in urban areas: the possibilities and constraints in low- and middle-income nations

    Human Settlements Programme, 2007
    This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low- and middle-income nations. These contain a third of the world’s population and a large proportion of the people and economic activities most at risk from sea-level rise and from the heatwaves, storms and floods whose frequency and/or intensity climate change is likely to increase.
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    Climate change, technology transfer and intellectual property rights

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Development and transfer of climate-friendly technologies is an important element in the adaptation strategy. The need for new technologies to face the challenge of global climate change is obvious. The Bali Action Plan recognises the crucial role of technology and highlights the importance of technological development, transfer and use of technologies.
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    In search of shelter: mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement

    CARE International, 2009
    The impacts of climate change are already causing migration and displacement. Although the exact number of people that will be on the move by mid-century is uncertain, the scope and scale could vastly exceed anything that has occurred before.
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    Agriculture and climate change: an agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Negotiations have been underway in advance of the meeting of the 15th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009. This brief is a compilation of views of leading experts from around the world on the key negotiating outcomes that must be pursued now, in order to effectively put agriculture on the climate change agenda.
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    Economy wide impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report takes cognizance of the fact that agriculture is very important to sub-Saharan Africa and there is potential to increase agricultural productivity through irrigation. It employs two possible adaptation options to climate change. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area constant.
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    Community answers to climate chaos: getting climate justice through the UNFCCC

    Christian Aid, 2009
    This paper gives suggestions of how a successful deal can be made at the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009. It argues that during the conference world leaders must agree on a global response to climate change that will shield the world, its economy and its people from the threat of climate chaos.
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    Adapting to coastal climate change: a guide for planners

    US Agency for International Development, 2009
    Changes brought about by climate are already occurring and will intensify in future. This is likely to result in significant alteration of coastal ecosystems, coastal hazards, lifestyle, coastal resource users, water front property owners and coastal communities.
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    World Disasters Report 2009 - focus on early warning, early action

    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2009
    This report focuses on two key aspects of disaster risk reduction: early warning and early action. The author states that the decline in injuries, loss of livelihoods and deaths from disasters over the past 30 years is, in part, due to the establishment and improvement of early warning systems.

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