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    Preparing for a warmer world: towards a global governance system to protect climate refugees

    Global Governance Project, 2007
    Climate change threatens to cause the largest refugee crisis in human history.
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    Climate change, vulnerability and livelihood: possibilities and prospect of the Charlands of Bangladesh

    Unnayan Onneshan, 2008
    This paper examines the vulnerability situation of people in the Charlands of Bangladesh. These are sandbars that emerge as islands within the river channel or as attached land to the riverbanks as a result of the dynamics of erosion and accretion in the rivers.
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    Organic agriculture and climate change

    International Trade Centre, 2007
    Agriculture is affected by climate change but also contributes to it. As a sector, agriculture must therefore  both adapt to changes and offers options for mitigation, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and storing carbon. This study explores the mitigation and adaptation potential of organic agriculture.
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    No additionality, new conditionality: a critique of the World Bank’s proposed climate investment funds

    Third World Network, 2008
    The World Bank is planning to establish a portfolio of climate investment funds (CIFs) to provide financing for climate-related activities. The stated objective of the funds is to provide concessional finance for policy reforms and investments that achieve development goals through a transition to a low carbon development path and climate resilient economy.
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    Institutional framework in relation to climate change in West and Central Africa

    Climate Change Adaptation in Africa, 2007
    In Africa, the issue of climate change is often confined to organisations dealing with environmental matters. It is rarely understood by the people or by the local authorities and, in the end, little progress is achieved in terms of integrating this issue into national development policies.
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    Towards a regional strategy on adaptation to climate change in West Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This paper lays the foundations of a regional climate change adaptation strategy based on the risk-sharing approach (i.e. sharing the burden of the development and implementation of response measures that help avoid or attenuate the impacts of climate change).
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    The economic impact of climate change in Namibia: how climate change will affect the contribution of Namibia’s natural resources to its economy

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in Southern Africa; but these predictions gain little policy attention in Southern African countries. This paper discusses how Namibia must take steps to provide some economic indicators of how climate change will affect the country and ensure that all its policies and activities are ‘climate proofed’.
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    Managing droughts instead of floods in Viet Nam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The Mekong River in Southeast Asia floods regularly and flood management has been an integral part of local people's lives for many years. But changes to the climate mean that the area now also experiences drought. Can people learn to adapt to droughts as well as floods?
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    Could agriculture help to prevent further climate change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There is growing evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity contribute to climate change. Many people blame modern farming practices for accelerating this - agriculture produces between 16.8 and 32.2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But could agriculture also hold some solutions to climate change?
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    Climate change and forced migration

    Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2008
    Despite growing concern of the international community about the consequences of migration resulting from environmental deterioration, research on environment and migration remains limited. This paper sets out to understand the reasons why environmental factors have been neglected by migration studies, and proposes a new definition of population movements induced by environmental factors.

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