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    Vulnerability and capacity assessment southern Clarendon pilot project Jamaica

    Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2008
    As sea levels worldwide continue to rise small island states such as Jamaica will increasing face challenges from this phenomena.
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    Vulnerability and capacity assessment methodology: a guidance manual for the conduct and mainstreaming of climate change vulnerability and capacity assessments in the Caribbean

    Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2008
    As the effects of climate change begin to be felt, one of the keys to developing an effective national adaptation strategy is to first conduct a vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) study. The aim of this manual is to present the processes involved in conducting a VCA study such as the types of information that should be gathered and how to manage relevant stakeholder processes.
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    The Caribbean and climate change: the costs of inaction

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
    This report offers a preliminary examination of the potential  financial costs to the island nations of the Caribbean if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase unchecked. It accomplishes this by presenting several country case studies and by extropolating the environmental and socio-economic costs in the years to come.
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    Small islands

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
    Small Island States (SIDS) have long been noted to be among those countries least responsible for climate change yet most at risk from the impacts thereof. This document (extracted from a larger document by the working group II on  the fourth IPCC assessment)  discusses the vulnerability and sensitivity of small island states to the threats from climate change.
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    Climate issues for the Cayman Islands: towards a climate change policy

    2010
    This report is the most comprehensive reference document to date on the potential implications of climate change for the Cayman Islands' socio-economic, and environmental sectors. It provides consensus-based adaptation interventions to address many of the adverse impacts likely to be faced by these Islands.
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    Draft climate change policy of the Turks and Caicos Islands

    Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2011
    This draft climate change policy is part of an ongoing consultative process designed to identify gaps, priorities and options for further actions as it relates to climate change impacts in the Turks and Caicos islands.
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    Turks and Caicos Islands: climate change green paper

    Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2011
    This "Green Paper" is intended to serve as a platform to facilitate ongoing consultations with stakeholders in the public and private sectors and civil society on the implications of climate change for the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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    Design principles for global commons: natural resources and emerging technologies

    International Journal of the Commons, 2011
    This paper examines the eight design principles, which were first put forward by Elinor Ostrom and are based on her work on stable local common pool resource management.
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    Strengthening clean energy technology cooperation under the UNFCCC: Steps toward implementation

    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2010
    The Copenhagen Accord has not led to a global target for greenhouse gas emissions and as a result bottom-up, national, and technology-specific policies are gaining importance. This paper discusses policies directed towards three areas relevant to the development of clean energy technology:
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    The future of ICT and learning in the knowledge society: Report on a Joint DG JRC-DG EAC Workshop held in Seville, 20-21 October 2005

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2005
    The mission of the IPTS is to provide customer driven support to the EU policy-making process by researching science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socioeconomic as well as a scientific/technological dimension.

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