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    Options for Adaptation and Loss & Damage in a 2015 Climate Agreement

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2014
    Loss and damage (L&D) is rapidly becoming a significant focus of international climate agreements, following the failure to-date of developed countries to adequately stem greenhouse gas emissions, and a number of high profile, and costly, extreme weather events.
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    Recognizing indigenous and community rights: Priority steps to advance development znd mitigate climate change

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2014
    This brief calculates the cost of securing Indigenous Peoples’ and community rights to the tropical forests where they live, arguing that secure land tenure is a prerequisite for the success of climate, poverty reduction and ecosystem conservation initiatives.
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    Rapid desk-based study: Understanding the relative strength of climate signals compared to other expected development results

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This rapid desk-based study provides evidence for understanding the relative strength of climate signals compared to other expected development results. The report summarises overall findings in a ‘traffic light’ rating (red, amber, green) and sets out some of the contested nature of findings. It also summarises the evidence to understand climate signals as drivers of development.
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    Financing the Resilient City: A demand driven approach to development, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation

    ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, 2011
    ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability - proposes cities pioneer a demand-driven approach to climate financing.
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    Sheltering from a gathering storm: Typhoon resilience in Vietnam

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2014
    This case study documents the rapid urbanization and economic development of Da Nang, a city in central Vietnam. It’s geography – being located on the tropical storm belt, and characterised by both mountain ranges and low-lying coastal areas – renders it a disaster prone city affected by various water-related hazards which translate into catastrophe on an annual basis.
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    World Disasters Report: Focus on culture and risk

    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2014
    For 2014 the World Disasters Report looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. It highlights that most people who live in places that are exposed to serious hazards are aware of the risks they face, including earthquakes, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides and droughts.
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    Social inequality and environmental threats in Indus Delta villages: Pakistan

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    Protection of environmental and climate change migrants or refugees and the debate on the legal framework of refugees’ rehabilitation is a matter of major concern for international humanitarian as well as development oriented organizations.
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    The political economy of low carbon energy in Kenya

    University of Sussex, UK, 2014
    Is it possible for Kenya to simultaneously tackle energy poverty, contribute to climate change mitigation and reduce exposure to climate vulnerability? There is growing international focus on how to support more integrated approaches to addressing climate change in ways that capture synergies and minimise the trade-offs between climate change mitigation, adaptation and development.
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    The Political Economy of Low Carbon Energy in Kenya (working paper)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    There is growing international focus on how to support more integrated approaches to a ddressing climate change in ways that capture synergies and minimise the trade - offs between climate change mitigation, adaptation and development. These aims are embodied in the concept of climate compatible development (CCD). But what does this look like in practice in Kenya?
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    Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014
    IDMC’s latest Global Estimates report shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years, the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced during the year.

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